Planning your journey

Go North East runs frequent bus services around the region, including frequent bus services to the city centres of Newcastle, Durham and Sunderland, Metrocentre, and the region's other popular shopping destinations.

Our mobile app and our responsive website make getting information about our services easy, particularly when you're on the move. You can even now buy your ticket on your mobile with our M-ticket app from your mobile App Store.

Our popular Facebook and Twitter pages, along with our apps, provide live updates on our services, including any bad weather disruptions for extra reassurance.

Responsive Website

Our responsive website scales to whatever mobile phone or tablet you are using, or if you are sitting at your desktop computer.

Finding your timetable

• You can find your timetable in a number of ways. From simplygo.com home page, in "Plan your journey" as shown below, you can enter the bus number or brand name of the bus such as Red Arrows. If you do not know the route number, then you can search for a particular street or area using the same search or enter two places and this will narrow the results.

• Browse Go North East buses by brand name
• View all routes by Go North East

 Other useful links:

Plan your journey using postcodes, places, bus stops, stations, and local attractions. See the exact fares for bus, metro and ferry journeys. Includes all UK rail and coach services.

To plan a journey, including information on bus times and fares, call Traveline on 0871 200 22 33 or use one of the online journey planners shown below. Traveline is open from 0700 until 2100, 7 days a week (except Christmas Day).

'NextBus' is a new service from Traveline. It's designed to work on mobile phones with internet and gives you the 'next bus' time anywhere in Scotland, England and Wales, straight to your mobile.

The simplest way to search is using the  door-to-door journey planner, which searches for up to five journey options - by joined-up public transport or by car. You can plan from postcodes, places, stations and even local attractions.

Maps in Tyne and Wear

Nexus have divided the Tyne and Wear county into seven helpful area maps.  They each provide greater detail of bus, Metro, rail and ferry routes to help make planning your journey that little bit easier.

County Durham bus network maps and timetables

Use the interactive map and search features to find details of all bus services throughout County Durham, including timetables. You can search for place names, hospitals and schools to find the relevant buses; or search by service number.