The Drifter buses are frequent, with Monday to Saturday daytime buses running up to every 10 minutes to or from Seaham, Dawdon and Parkside, and up to every 15 minutes to or from Dalton Park and Murton, which gives a bus every few minutes between Sunderland, Grangetown, Ryhope and New Seaham.
With a dedicated team of specially selected drivers, your Drifter service bring you our Gold Standard travel promise of unrivalled customer care and service reliability. Our Gold Standard charter will tell you what you can expect in levels of service and customer care. Find out more by viewing our Gold Standard page.
MoneySaver fares
We've some great deals and offers to help you get the best value for money on your bus travel.
Our MoneySaver guide gives you through all of the fares and tickets that are available for travel on our services so you can get the best deal for your journey.
If an employer buys your ticket for you, you could save even more money on the price of individual 28 day tickets - contact us for full details.
On the route
Sunderland City Centre
The retail heart of the city is centred around The Bridges Shopping Centre, where there are over 100 top name high street stores.
Close by The Bridges are Waterloo Place, Fawcett Street and John Street with numerous shops offering everything from designer labels to trendy interiors.
Just a short walk away is the Winter Gardens, Museum, Art Gallery and Mowbray Park, while Sunderland Interchange offers frequent connections with Fab56 buses to the Stadium of Light and the Sunderland Aquatic Centre.
Dalton Park has the ultimate in Designer brand shopping, including Adidas, Clarks, Cotton Traders, GAP, Klass, Levis, Marks & Spencer, Reebock, Suits You and The Works, also BB’s Coffee & Muffins, Cadbury, McDonald’s and Starbucks.
Help and Advice
We want you to enjoy using our services and are working hard to make sure you find them easy and reliable to use.
You can speak to our Service Delivery Manager for the Drifter, who will be out and about on the buses.
Our customer services team can be contacted by Freepost, telephone or e-mail
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Cleaner buses - Our Kite Mark explained
Go North East has one of the cleanest bus fleets of its size in the country and to make it even easier for you to see how well your bus is doing to help look after the environment, we have introduced a new ‘kite mark’ on our buses.
Using simple illustrations based on a red kite bird taking flight, each symbol lets you see at-a-glance how each of our buses meet European standards on emissions. Find out more about cleaner engines.
