Tyne Tees Express

Tyne-Tees Express routes X9 and X10 give connections with Tyneside and Teesside up to every 30 minutes. 

We’ve a range of great value fares and tickets for travel on Tyne Tees Express with adult single fares between Newcastle and Teesside of just £5.50 and a Cheap Day return for just £6 - see below for full information.

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.

Our Tickets & Fares

We’ve a range of great value fares and tickets for travel on Tyne Tees Express with adult single fares between Newcastle and Teesside of just £5.50 and a Cheap Day return for just £6.

For those making shorter journeys, there’s some great value local fares offering simplicity and value for money in many of the towns along the route. View full information on this link.

For a day of unlimited travel you can buy a Buzzfare Day ticket for £6.80 or if you travel on our services a few times a week then you will save money with our range of weekly, monthly or annual tickets. Once you get your ticket you can use it as much as you want including evenings and weekends!

Our Buzzfare tickets between Newcastle and Teesside are £27.70 a week. Buzzfare weekly and monthly 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 - 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 £3.20 a day!

Find out more information on our fares and tickets.

On the route

Newcastle City Centre

Eldon Square, Northumberland Street, Monument Mall, Central Arcade, Grainger Market and Eldon Gardens are a shoppers' paradise, with a vast array of high stores and smaller specialist retailers.

For a totally thrilling experience, make a visit to the International Centre for Life, or for top class entertainment there's the Theatre Royal, while St James' Park is home to Newcastle United Football Club.

Metrocentre

Easy connections can be made at Gateshead Interchange and Eldon Square Bus Station with frequent buses to and from Metrocentre.

With more than 300 shops all under one roof, MetroCentre has something for everyone, including major names like Debenhams, House of Fraser and Marks & Spencer.

There are many smaller independent shops in themed areas such as The Forum, The Studio and Garden Court.

Stockton Town Centre

With bustling High Street shops, the Castlegate Centre and an open-air market on Wednesday and Saturday, you can easily bag a bargain with the X10.

Middlesbrough Town Centre

X9 and X10 takes you right into the centre of Middlesbrough, with direct access to the shopping malls and stores of Captain Cook Square, the Cleveland Centre, Hill Street Shopping Centre and Linthorpe Road.

Nearby is the Bottle of Notes sculpture and in Central Square there's mima, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.

If football is your game, the Riverside is home to Middlesbrough Football Club.

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 Michael Edwards (pictured) our Service Delivery Manager for the X9 and X10 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.