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(L-R) Alison Clark Durham 2025 bid director; Tony Harrington chair of Culture Durham; Sally Dixon assistant director of partnerships and communications Beamish Museum; Stephen King commercial director at GNE; Martijn Gilbert managing director at GNE

Businesses get on board County Durham’s UK City of Culture 2025 bid

One business that has gone the extra mile is Go North East, which has wrapped one of its buses with Durham 2025 branding. Featuring bright colours and an eye-catching design, the bus will help to spread the word about the bid across County Durham, Sunderland and Newcastle.

Go North East announces return of Toon Tour

Go North East announces return of Toon Tour

To celebrate English Tourism Week, Go North East has announced the return of the popular Toon Tour open-top sightseeing bus from Saturday 9 April. The service will run every weekend, bank holiday and during school holidays from Saturday 9 April until Friday 27 May, then daily from Saturday 28 May until Sunday 4 September. It will then return for four further days on 17, 18, 24 and 25 September.

Go North East wins gold at prestigious awards

Go North East wins gold at prestigious awards

Go North East brought the gold back from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Annual Awards for Excellence on Thursday night, fighting off stiff competition from fellow finalists Transport for London and Reading Buses to win the award for Passenger Transport Excellence.

Go North East champions its inspiring women on International Women’s Day

Go North East champions its inspiring women on International Women’s Day

From apprentices to senior management, there are women in all kinds of roles at Go North East, including driving, engineering, marketing, customer services, payroll administration, service control and supervisory jobs, depot management, recruitment, training, support roles and more.

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On the Go since 1913

Around 175,000 journeys are made on Go North East bus services every day to travel around this wonderful region. Travelling to work or education, to visit friends and family, to have a night out, or to visit one of the region's many tourist and leisure attractions.

For over 100 years, Go North East has connected the region's towns and villages with the cities of Newcastle, Durham and Sunderland and currently operates across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and into Tees Valley.

Employing over 2,000 local people, with a fleet of almost 700 buses and coaches and an annual turnover of £100m, the company is the regional subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group plc, one of the UK's leading providers of passenger transport.

Go North East

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NE8 2UA Gateshead