Prince Bishops’ 20 runs between Durham Bus Station and Sunderland Interchange, serving Gilesgate Moor, Durham City Retail Park, Belmont, Carrville, West Rainton (Station Road, School Avenue and Benridge Bank), East Rainton, Rainton Bridge, Hall Lane Estate, Houghton-le-Spring, Houghton Cut, Stony Gate, East Herrington, Durham Road and Barnes Park.
Prince Bishops’ 20X runs during the Monday to Friday peak periods, providing half-hourly links between Durham Bus Station and Sunderland Interchange via High Grange, Belmont, Carrville, West Rainton (Old Durham Road) and direct along the A690 to Houghton-le-Spring, then Houghton Cut, Stony Gate, Doxford International, Moorside, East Herrington, Durham Road and Barnes Park.
General information for passengers travelling on Prince Bishops service 20 from Sunday, June 6
When you get on the bus, you will notice there are new ticket machines and separate smartcard readers. You may also see people using ‘The Key’ smartcards for their journey on these buses. Paper tickets issued on the Prince Bishops services will also look different to tickets issued on other services.
Routes
Number
Service
Places Served
Route map
Timetable
20
Durham - Gilesgate Moor - Belmont - The Raintons - Hall Lane Estate - Houghton - Sunderland
We’ve some great value tickets and fares for travel on our Prince Bishops.
With a maximum single fare of just £1.60 in Sunderland and a local fare of just £1.10 for shorter journeys our fares in the city are quick and easy.
Outside of Sunderland, you can make a single journey from any bus stop in Durham City Centre to Gilesgate Moor, Belmont, Carrville and the Ramside Hotel for a maximum of £1.30.
Throughout the route our Cheap Day return tickets are available from just £2.40 or you can travel as much as you like from just £3.80 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 Prince Bishop services run within our Green and Red BuzzFare zones giving you a week of unlimited travel from just £15 or get 28 days of travel from just £55. 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. Click here for more information
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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!
the key - the smart new way to pay for your travel
We want you to be the first passengers to try out the key – a new smartcard, exclusive to Go North East – when we carry out a pilot scheme to test the card on Prince Bishops from Sunday 6th June.
the key smart card can be used to hold many of the tickets currently used, and can be recharged again and again. the key is your ticket to travel for as long as you wish.
During the trial we will be offering our 7 and 28 day BuzzFare tickets on the key, but, when the key is introduced across our network later in the year, our full range of tickets will be available to load onto the card.
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.
Durham City
There’s always plenty to see in this picturesque historic city, built on the banks of the River Wear. Durham is a World Heritage site and has many historic buildings, quaint streets and a soaring Cathedral. Durham also has a variety of new and niche shops making it the perfect place for a great day out.
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 Garry Mitcheson (pictured) our Service Delivery Manager for Prince Bishops 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.
the key - the smart new way to pay for your travel
We want you to enjoy using our services and are working hard to make sure you find them easy and reliable to use.
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.