Go North East
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Go North East, part of the Go-Ahead Group, operates bus services in Tyne and Wear and County Durham in England. It also operates a small number of services in Northumberland and Tees Valley. Go North East operates through its three subsidiaries; Go Gateshead Ltd., Go Northern Ltd. and Go Wear Buses Ltd. However buses generally wear Go North East fleetnames. The company was previously known as The Northern General Transport Company and Go-Ahead Northern. The company operates a modern fleet or around 700 buses, 75% that are in regular service are low floor. The first serious trial of low floor buses in the UK outside of London was operated from the Percy Main Depot in North Tyneside.
Go North East's headquarters are at 117 Queen Street, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear and their central engineering department is at Site 11, Saltmeadows Road, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
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[edit] Subsidiaries
[edit] Go Gateshead Ltd.
Operates services in and around Gateshead and into Newcastle. Go Gateshead also operates the X10 Express service between Newcastle and Middlesbrough and the highly acclaimed X66 Centrelink bendy bus service between Gateshead Interchange and the MetroCentre transport interchange. As part of the Centrelink project part of the X66's route is now a bus only road that runs alongside the River Tyne. This subsidiary also operates services on North Tyneside out of the former Go Coastline Ltd. depot at Percy Main. Services that run into Gateshead from South Tyneside that were formerly operated from the now defunct Go Coastline Ltd. South Shields depot are now undertaken by the Sunderland Road depot.
Depots are located at:
- Sunderland Road, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
- Rothbury Terrace, Percy Main, Tyne and Wear (formerly Go Coastline)
- Cromwell Place, Winlaton, Tyne and Wear
[edit] Go Northern Ltd.
Operates mainly in County Durham. Operates some services into Tyne and Wear and Teesside.
Depots are located at:
- Picktree Lane, Chester-le-Street, County Durham
- High Street, Stanley, County Durham
Go Ahead recently started construction of a massive bus depot on the Drum Lane Industrial Estate between Chester-le-Street and Birtley, this will, when it is completed replace the Stanley and Chester-le-Street depots
In March 2006, Go North East announced it was withdrawing from Bishop Auckland with the exception of 3 flagship routes, mainly those linking to Durham and Newcastle, which were transferred to the Chester-le-Street depot. The bulk of operations will be transferred to Arriva Durham.
On the 1st October 2006, Go North East introduced the only bus service in the North East scheduled to run 24 hours a day, the 21/N21 between Newcastle and Chester-le-Street.
[edit] Go Wear Buses Ltd.
Runs services local thorough Sunderland. Also operates some of the former Go Coastline services on South Tyneside. Wear Buses also operates services into County Durham, Northumberland and the rest of Tyne and Wear.
Depots are located at:
- Deptford Terrace, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
- Industrial Road, Hertburn Industrial Estate, Washington, Tyne and Wear
[edit] Route branding
During 2006 Go North East began applying bright eye catching liveries to its vehicles. This is apparently an attempt to increase passenger numbers by increasing awareness of its services. All buses still carry Go North East fleetnames in addition to these new 'brandings' as well as either Go Gateshead, Go Northern or Go Wear Buses leagal lettering. The list below shows the services that have been branded so far:
- Go Gateshead Ltd.
- 1/2 - Coaster - Dennis Trident East Lancs
- 9/9A - Cross Tyne Link - Dennis Dart/Transbus SPD
- 10/11/X11/31/32 - The Blaydon Racers - Dennis Dart SPD
- 53/54 - Saltwell Park - Dennis Dart SPD
- 57/57A - The Fab57 - Scania L94UB Solar
- 93/94 - The Loop - Scania L94UB Solar
- 95/96/97 - The Highwayman - Wright VDL Merit, Volvo B10BLE Wright Renown
- 305/315/316/325/326 - The Centurion - Dennis Dart SPD, MPD, Wright Pathfinder
- 309 - Cobalt Clipper - Scania Omnicity
- 321/322 - Pink Panthers - Optare Solo
- X10 - The X10 - Volvo B7TL Wright Eclipse Gemini
- X42/X43 - Bargain Bus - Various double-deck vehicles
- X66 - CentreLink - Scania L94UA Wright Solar Fusion
- Go Northern Ltd.
- 21/N21 - Twenty One, 24 hour service (Name may be changed) - Scania Omnicity, Dennis Tridents
- 8/8A/78/X8 - Lime - Volvo B10BLE Wright Renown
- 43/44 - The Diamond - Volvo B10BLE Wright Renown
- 45/46/46A - The Red Kite - Scania Omnicity
- V1/V2 - Venture - Optare Solo
- X30/X31/X70/70/70A - West Durham Swift - Scania Omnicity
- Go Wear Buses Ltd.
- 20/X20 - Prince Bishops (Swift) - Scania L94UB Solar
- 26/36 - The Black Cats - Dennis Dart/Transbus MPD
- 29/39 - The Doxford Clipper - Transbus/Alexander-Dennis MPD
- 30 - Thirty - Dennis Dart MPD
- 33/42 - The Magic Roundabout - Transbus MPD
- 56 - The Fab56 - Scania L94UB Solar
- 60/61/62 - The Drifter - Dennis Dart SLF Marshall
- M1/M2/M3 - MetroLink - Tranbus MPD, Scania L94UB Solar
- X1/X2 - The Red Arrows - Mercedes Citaros
- Future
- X23 - The Red Arrows (from 23/04/07 limited express service)
- Withdrawn
- 40/43/43A/43B/44 - Stanley Shuttle
- D4 - Pink Panthers
[edit] Standard vehicle types
[edit] Current
- Low floor double deck
- Low floor single deck
- Low floor midibus
- VDL Bus SB120/Wright Cadet
- Dennis Dart MPD/Plaxton
[edit] Past
- Low floor double deck
- Low floor single deck
- Scania L94UB/Wright Solar
- Dennis Dart SPD/Plaxton
- Volvo B10BLE/Wright Renown
- Optare Excel
- Dennis Lance SLF/Wright Pathfinder
- Low floor minibus
- Double deck
- Volvo Olympian/Northern Counties Palatine II
- Leyland Olympian/Alexander RH
- MCW Metrobus
- Midibus
- Dennis Dart/Marshall C37
- Dennis Dart/Wright Handybus
- Dennis Dart/Carlyle Dartline
- Minibus
[edit] External links
[edit] See Also
| Bus operators owned by Go-Ahead |
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| Brighton & Hove | Diamond | Docklands Buses | Go North East | Go West Midlands | London Central London General | Metrobus | Oxford Bus Company | Solent Blue Line | Southern Vectis | Wilts and Dorset |
