Reply to: Cross Tyne Bus Services

[Martin Scroatman]

Have you tried Google Maps? They recently integrated public transport route information so if you ask for directions and select bus/public transport, it might tell you the bus numbers and frequency even if multiple providers are needed.

I've actually found the Nexus resource suggested by a previous poster to be commensurate with my requirements.

In fact, from that I see I can also go via Two Ball Lonnen on the City Busways route and continue on my way along the West Road on the Tynedale service. This is very convenient as TBL is another drop off point for which I otherwise would have had to have made a totally separate itinerary.

[d000hg]

Have you tried Google Maps? They recently integrated public transport route information so if you ask for directions and select bus/public transport, it might tell you the bus numbers and frequency even if multiple providers are needed.

[BolshieBastard]

What's the scuttlebutt on North East bus services these days?

I need to get from Ebchester, co. Durham to Bellingham, Northumberland.

In the past I would have done United / Go Ahead Northern -> Newcastle, City Busways -> Haymarket & Northumbria -> Bellingham.

No that everything is run by Stagecoach / First Bus, is there an integrated cross Tyne service these days?

United!? Blimey, that was some time ago.

Try this Nexus Tyne and Wear - Public Transport and Local Information for an integrated journey planner.

[DimPrawn]

Is this the northern version of Gricer and Malc?

[TykeMerc]

[Martin Scroatman]

To the OP

You are a contractor clearly banned from driving for being a just pay for a taxi....

Let's get one thing clear here, pal, I have NOT been banned from driving.

I was born with a club foot and I have recently undergone one of the many surgical procedures I've had to endure in my life that leaves me wracked with pain (pain, I hasten to add, that has got considerably worse since reading your chippy little post) and temporarily renders me unable to drive.

[unixman]

Not sure if this has been suggested but Google maps has local bus/train services fully integrated now.

[eek]

For anyone else not aware of how to deal with s like the OP the solution is to click http://forums.contractoruk.com/profi...ignore&u=46434 and answer Yes to the question...

To the OP

You are a contractor clearly banned from driving for being a just pay for a taxi....

[GlenW]

That's ok then.

There's one operator I refuse to patronise on principle after getting kicked out at Throckley on a freezing, wet January night because the driver didn't like the fact I was eating a kebab.

That's scary, I think one of the most frightening pubs I've ever been into was The Centurion in Throckley, not as bad as The Forge Hammer on Scotswood Road, but definitely not nice.

[BrilloPad]

On the B6320?
Only a suicidal fool would do that!
You could cycle up the A68 and go across but it isn't much better.

Can't be any worse than cycling in central London.

[Martin Scroatman]

Go North East I think.

That's ok then.

There's one operator I refuse to patronise on principle after getting kicked out at Throckley on a freezing, wet January night because the driver didn't like the fact I was eating a kebab.

[GlenW]

Do you know what operating company runs the service?

Go North East I think.

[Martin Scroatman]

Sorry, I'd assumed that you were travelling during the day. There is a bus from Blaydon or the Metro Centre to Hexham though.

Do you know what operating company runs the service?

[MicrosoftBob]

I'd prefer the bus, thankyou.

Every time I've been on that train it has been commandeered by the curry house on Corbridge station and I've been surrounded by drunkards stuffing their faces with puppudums.


The armed Sikh gentlemen who stand at each end of the carriage are a little fearsome too.

Surely they'd be rather useful if some kind of terrorist situation kicked off, probably more useful than plod these days

[GlenW]

I'd prefer the bus, thankyou.

Every time I've been on that train it has been commandeered by the curry house on Corbridge station and I've been surrounded by drunkards stuffing their faces with puppudums.


The armed Sikh gentlemen who stand at each end of the carriage are a little fearsome too.

Sorry, I'd assumed that you were travelling during the day. There is a bus from Blaydon or the Metro Centre to Hexham though.