Go North East is celebrating after two of the company’s drivers made the top ten at the National Bus Driver of the Year competition, held in Blackpool at the weekend.
The annual National Bus Driver of the Year competition is designed to recognise the skill, professionalism, and customer service excellence of drivers across the country.
Dawid Zochowski took fourth place out of more than 100 d
Go North East has added story prompts to buses across the region, as part of a campaign to reverse the decline in reading for pleasure.
Go North East is launching the Tide Tour, an open top bus service running from Tynemouth to Whitley Bay. The service, which will operate over the summer, has been funded by the North East Mayor Kim McGuinness as part of her commitment to making travel more affordable and accessible across the region.
The Tide Tour will stop at all the North Tyneside coast’s most popular attractions and destinat
To mark Armed Forces Day, Go North East is offering free bus travel for veterans, cadets and serving members of the armed forces on 27 and 28 June.
Since Go North East introduced new electric buses to their fleet in January, 1.5 million journeys have been taken on the zero emission vehicles, saving more than 500 tonnes of carbon emissions from polluting the atmosphere.
The amount of carbon emissions saved weighs as much as 40 double-decker electric buses or more than double the weight of the Angel of the North, the inspiration for the ope
Go North East has announced the Toon Tour, its open-top sightseeing bus around Newcastle, is back in service this weekend.
Go North East is introducing major improvements to their X1 service.
Go North East’s X75 service connects Newcastle city centre and Ponteland with Belsay Hall, Bolam Lake, and Wallington, giving passengers the opportunity to escape the city and explore Northumberland.
Bus service from Great Park to be in place for next home game
Go North East’s four single-decker buses are the first Enviro200EVs to be manufactured by Alexander Dennis.
The buses are now in service, electrifying Go North East’s X66 route between Gateshead Interchange and the Metrocentre, one of the UK’s largest shopping centres. The service carried more than 900,000 passengers in 2025.
The 37-seater buses were fully built at the Alexander Dennis fac
Four new single-decker electric buses will be hitting the roads today (Wednesday 15 April), electrifying Go North East’s X66 route between Gateshead and the Metrocentre which carried more than 900,000 passengers last year.
The buses are part of a £17 million joint investment from Go North East, the North East Combined Authority and the Department for Transport. Thanks to this investment, Go No
Go North East is calling for the next generation of engineers to apply for its industry leading apprenticeship programme.
On Wednesday, Go North East transformed the Utilita Arena Newcastle into a concert venue with a difference, launching 29 brand-new electric buses in an event unlike anything the region has seen before as part of North East Mayor Kim McGuinness’ drive to create a world class public transport system.
Backed by a £17 million joint investment from Go North East, the North East Combined Authority an
Sophia Garrett from Rickleton Primary School in Washington has been announced as the winner of Go North East’s ‘letter to Santa competition’.
Go North East’s Santa Bus is returning for 2025 and this year the bus operator is offering children around the region the chance to win a very special experience – an exclusive visit from their Santa Bus.
Go North East is offering free travel on all services for veterans and current members of the armed forces on Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day.
Go North East is celebrating after Sunderland-based bus driver Nick Perry drove his way to second place at the prestigious National Bus Driver of the Year competition in Blackpool.
Nick, who has been with the company for seven years, impressed judges with his exceptional driving skills, taking runner-up in an incredibly tight contest that went right to the wire with the eventual winner. His per
Lorraine Petch, a bus driver from Sunderland, is one of the stars of Go North East’s Inner Qualities campaign.
Inner Qualities, designed and developed by women colleagues at Go North East, the region’s largest transport employer, launched on Monday, 8 September with a powerful message: “They say she can’t. We say she can.”
Go North East is supporting four local Royal Air Force Air Cadet squadrons in a national robotics competition, aiming to inspire engineers of the future.
Eighteen cadets from 405 Darlington, 234 Durham, 361 Gateshead and 1313 Whickham squadrons have been competing in the Vex Robotics League, where students are challenged to build and programme robots to battle it out to complete timed tasks. <
