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Go North East apprenticeships drive industry award wins

This National Apprenticeship Week (4 - 8 March 2019), the region’s biggest bus operator, Go North East is celebrating its young talent making a big impact – including two industry award-winning apprentices.

Colin Barnes, engineering director at Go North East

Why I’m living proof that apprenticeships work

To mark the start of National Apprenticeship Week 2019 (4-8 March), former apprentice Colin Barnes - now engineering director at Go North East, shares his views on the value of apprenticeships, from his own experiences to heading up the company’s award-winning bus and coach engineering and maintenance scheme.

Electric buses to hit the streets of Newcastle and Gateshead

Electric buses to hit the streets of Newcastle and Gateshead

Following an announcement by the Buses Minister Nusrat Ghani MP, bus operator Go North East and Nexus the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive, have been awarded funding in the latest round of the Government's Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme.

Go North East's on-bus announcer, Emma Hignett

The face behind the voice: Meet Go North East’s on-bus announcer

Hearing your voice playing out on the bus would give most people a fright but it’s just part of everyday life for voiceover artist Emma Hignett – Go North East’s resident passenger information announcer.
Over the past three years, Emma, from Teesdale, has recorded almost 3,500 on-bus recordings for Go North East, now featuring on more than 50% of the company’s fleet of 601 vehicles. She is hear

On the Go since 1913

Around 175,000 journeys are made on Go North East bus services every day to travel around this wonderful region. Travelling to work or education, to visit friends and family, to have a night out, or to visit one of the region's many tourist and leisure attractions.

For over 100 years, Go North East has connected the region's towns and villages with the cities of Newcastle, Durham and Sunderland and currently operates across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and into Tees Valley.

Employing over 2,000 local people, with a fleet of almost 700 buses and coaches and an annual turnover of £100m, the company is the regional subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group plc, one of the UK's leading providers of passenger transport.

Go North East

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NE8 2UA Gateshead