Blaydon Racers

Services 31 and 32 provide a 15 minute frequency Monday to Saturday daytimes, running from Blaydon to Newcastle City Centre via Newcastle Business Park. Evening and Sunday buses run via Metrocentre.

Services 48, 49 and 49A provide 6 buses an hour running Monday to Saturday daytimes from Winlaton, Metrocentre and Gateshead.

The Blaydon Racer buses are named after the famous horse race which took place in 1862 which was immortalised in the Blaydon Race song.

Our Tickets & Fares

We’ve some great value tickets and fares for travel on our Blaydon Racers.

Our Cheap Day return tickets are available from just £2.40 or you can travel as much as you like from just £4* a day with a Buzzfare day ticket available from the driver. * From 8 August 2010.

If you travel on our services a few times a week then you will save money with our range of weekly, monthly or annual Buzzfare tickets.

What’s more, once you get your ticket, you can use it as much as you want including evenings & weekends!

 

Our Blaydon Racer services run within our Purple Buzzfare zone giving you a week of unlimited travel for just £15 or get 28 days of travel for just £55. Tickets are available from the driver and travel shops or save 10% by purchasing your ticket online .

Plus, you could save another 25%, compared to the price of individual 28 day tickets, if your employer buys an annual ticket for you under our corporate discount scheme. 

For 19-22 year olds our range of Get Around tickets give massive discounts with tickets offering unlimited travel starting at £3 a day or £13 a week!

Find out more information on our fares and tickets.

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 Fred Martin (pictured) our Service Delivery Manager for Blaydon Racers, who will be out and about on the buses.

Our customer services team can be contacted by Freepost, telephone or e-mail

Contact Us

 

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.