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.
We’ve some great value tickets and fares for travel on our Drifter services.
Our Cheap Day return tickets are available from just £2.50 or you can travel as much as you like from £4.200 a day with a Buzzfare day ticket available from the driver.
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 Drifter services run within our Red Buzzfare zone giving you a week of unlimited travel for £16.30. Tickets are available from the driver and travel shops or save 10% by purchasing your ticket online
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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 - contact us for full details.
For 19-22 year olds our range of Get Around tickets give massive discounts with tickets offering unlimited travel starting at £3 a day!
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
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.
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.