West Durham Swift

West Durham Swift X30 and X31 buses run hourly each from Lanchester to Gateshead and Newcastle, serving Stanley, Sunniside and Lobley Hill.

West Durham Swift X70, 70, X71 buses run hourly from Consett to Gateshead and Newcastle, serving Burnopfield, Sunniside and Lobley Hill.

Combined there is a Monday to Saturday daytime frequency of every 15 mins from Sunniside to Newcastle.

Our Tickets & Fares

We’ve some great value tickets and fares for travel on our West Durham Swift services.

Our Cheap Day return tickets are available from £2.50 or you can travel as much as you like from £4.20 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!

Buzzfare tickets give you a week of unlimited travel from £16.30. 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 information.

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

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.

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 Geoff Cook (pictured) our Service Delivery Manager for the West Durham Swift 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.