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MetroLink buses run up to every 10 minutes on Monday to Saturday daytimes, running from Houghton-le-Spring to Heworth, with easy connections with the Metro at Heworth.
At Washington Galleries bus station, connections can be made with Red Arrows X1 to Gateshead, Newcastle, Shiney Row, Newbottle and Easington Lane.
Our Gold Standard charter will tell you what you can expect in levels of service and customer care. Find out more at by viewing our Gold Standard page.
| Number | Service | Places Served | Route map | Timetable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 |  |
Houghton-le-Spring - Fence Houses - Shiney Row - Fatfield - Glebe - Washington Galleries - Concord - Usworth - Heworth | M1 from 13/06/10 | M1 from 13 June 2010 |
We’ve some great value tickets and fares for travel on our MetroLink services.
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 MetroLink services run within our Red and Purple Buzzfare zones giving you a week of unlimited travel from just £15.50* or get 28 days of travel from just £57*. Tickets are available from the driver and travel shops or save 10% by purchasing your ticket online. *From 8 August 2010.
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. Click here for more information.
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!
In addition to our own range of tickets there are also tickets available for travel between Go North East services and Metro.
Transfare and Day Rover tickets are available from bus drivers, Shields Ferry and Metro ticket machines or visit a Travelshop or buy your ticket online for 1 week, 1 month or 1 year.
Find out more information on our fares and tickets.
With over 80 top name high street stores and specialist retailers, the Washington Galleries Shopping Centre has something for everyone. There’s also a retail park that’s a short walk away from the Galleries that includes Next, Home Bargans and Brantano Footwear.
Red arrows buses give frequent links and the Bus Interchange is the perfect gateway to the Galleries Shopping Centre. Our staff will be on hand to help you with travel queries from 0700 to 1900 Monday to Friday and from 1000 to 1800 on Saturday.
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 Gary Lines (pictured) our Service Delivery Manager for the MetroLink routes, 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.
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