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Pictured from left to right: Laura Sharp, Peter Lotts, Performing Arts Students from New College Durham, The Cheesy Waffles Project, Ian Younghusband, Vonni Hardman, Lizzie Lovejoy, Sam Slatcher and Olivia Temple

GET YOUR BUM ON BOARD FOR DURHAM FRINGE FESTIVAL 2024

With just two weeks until Durham Fringe Festival 2024 kicks off in and around Durham’s City Centre, lively festival performers have teamed up with Go North East to promote their shows and encourage sustainable travel to the event.

The Go North East team at this year's Sunderland Pride.

Go North East joins the fun at Sunderland Pride’s ‘best year yet’

Festival-goers to this year’s Sunderland Pride got more than they bargained for when boarding Go North East’s Pride bus, enjoying fun face painting, glitter art and a caricaturist.
This year’s festival, hailed the ‘best year yet’, took place on Sunday 23 September, with hundreds of people taking to the streets of the city to mark the North East event which celebrates local gay, lesbian, bisexua

Go North East Park & Ride buses for The Tall Ships Races 2018

Tall Ships Sunderland was ‘plain sailing’ thanks to Go North East

Around 1.2 million visitors flocked to the docks of Sunderland as The Tall Ships Races 2018 sailed into town – and Go North East was on-hand to help those travelling to the event catch a glimpse, with specially dedicated bus services.
The region’s largest bus company supported the colourful five-day festival of culture, with 54 vehicles and 175 team members working across the event on dedicated

One of Go North East's Pride buses

On the road to diversity as Go North East gears up for annual Newcastle Pride celebration

Newcastle will again come alive with colour for this year’s Pride festival and the region’s largest bus company, Go North East, will be proudly showing its support for the annual celebration with its two branded rainbow-emblazoned buses.
This year’s LGBT event will take place from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd July, with its annual parade through Newcastle city centre, as well as an outdoor concer

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.

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