Coaster

From 15 January 2012 evening buses will operate the full route between Whitley Bay and Gateshead so that customers will no longer need to change buses in North Shields.View full information.

Buses run every 15 minutes on Monday to Saturday daytimes and every 30 minutes in the evening. Later evening buses will run between Newcastle City Centre and North Shields only.

Our Tickets & Fares

We’ve some great value tickets and fares for travel on the Coaster.

Coaster Saver tickets

£3.20 for a DaySaver, or just £11 for a WeeklySaver offering unlimited travel on Coaster 1 and 2, and Cobalt Clipper 309 and 310 between Newcastle and North Shields/Whitley Bay.

Our Cheap Day return tickets will save you money if you're making a longer journey on one service there and back on the same day.

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 Coaster services run within our Blue & Purple Buzzfare zones giving you a week of unlimited travel for £21.70. From 30 October, this route runs wholly within the blue Buzzfare zone.

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

For 19-22 year olds our range of Get Around tickets give massive discounts with tickets offering unlimited travel starting at £3.20 a day!

Find out more information on fares and tickets.

On the route

Newcastle Quayside and Gateshead Quays Offering great walks along the river front and atttactions such as Baltic, the Sage, Gateshead Millennium Bridge and Newcastle Quayside Sunday Market

The coastal resorts of Tynemouth, Cullercoats and Whitley Bay
The Coaster offers outstanding views of the coastline. With plenty of stops along the way, you can also enjoy some of the many visitor attractions in the area

Metrocentre

By catching our CentreLink service X66 at Gateshead Interchange the Metrocentre is only a short hop away. This service offers a bus every few minutes Monday to Saturday daytime. Apart from the many shops, MetroCentre has to offer you can watch one of the latest movies, have a meal and a drink without the worry of driving home 

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 Alan Kearvell (pictured) our Service Delivery Manager for the Coaster routes, 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.