CityTransport

16/03/2025

UpTheMags! Happy fans returning back north to the toon please note the amended train timetable tonight.

Travelling for the Carabao Cup at Wembley on Sunday 16 March?

Trains will be extremely busy and running to amended times due to planned engineering, so please check before you travel at https://spkl.io/6186fS2j2

13/02/2025

Would you like to join us? We have a full-time driver vacancy in our Special Events and Rail Replacement team, based in but working across the North and beyond.

Please note that core working hours are weekends, with midweek requirements shared. All full-time people are given their choice of midweek days off. Weekends away from base are fairly common (midscale hotel rooms provided, with no sharing with colleagues). A good knowledge of both the highways network and railway network would be beneficial.

We are looking for people who are smart, presentable, able to put our clients at the heart of what we do, and who wish to excel and grow with us. 37.5 hours per week basic.

If you would like to know more, please drop a message with some info about yourself.

(And yes, in time, you would be inducted on the ones with a hinge)

11/02/2025

Chester Le Street rail replacement arrangements have changed as of today.

Any rail replacement buses there will now stop outside the masonic hall, and this applies to both TransPennine Express Trains and Northern

The change is due to issues maneuvering buses and coaches around the (council) car park there. The picture from Monday morning shows this; our Neoplan coach here was the last RRB to serve the station car park.

A reminder that this coming weekend (and the next five) will feature RRB along the East Coast Main Line south of Newcastle.

02/01/2025

1800 - first day that both bendybuses operated on the same job, which was for our client Tyne and Wear Metro

For passengers, we understand that issues (both electrics at Jesmond, and debris due to a car accident on the track at Felling) should be resolved in the morning.

25/12/2024

football fans - ourselves and other bus operators will be covering the Heworth to Monument section of your journey tomorrow (in both directions). Please leave plenty of time.

Tyne and Wear Metro as far as Heworth, then straight upstairs to the ticket barrier, turn left and onto a waiting bus. Normal Metro tickets (including matchday) apply.

BBC News - Extra buses for football fans hit by flyover woe

The Metro is partially suspended due to safety fears linked to the Gateshead flyover, Nexus says.

24/12/2024

And our last bus is almost back at the depot. One more train to watch depart, and then that's us until boxing day mid-morning:

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:S73184/2024-12-24/detailed =0

Merry Christmas to all our clients, suppliers and passengers, from the bus company with the biggest buses in the North East and Yorkshire.

Real-time train running information for 1X01 2345 departure from North Pole International to North Pole International on 24/12/2024. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

19/12/2024

Important suspension information for TOMORROW (Fri 20th).

Please follow Tyne and Wear Metro for their updates.

02/12/2024

Lovely to see part of 254001 pass the office window just now trailing north. 43257 looks lovely in orange. As E43057 he was in the first Eastern Region set.

16/11/2024

Tomorrow morning (Sunday 17th Nov) sees Network Rail undertake engineering work in the area. Grand Central Rail, Northern and Tyne and Wear Metro services will all be replaced by buses that morning until approx lunchtime.

We will be operating buses from to (calling at all Northern Rail stations) at 09:12, 10:10 and 11:08 and from Newcastle to Hartlepool at 07:18, 08:19 and 09:19. At Hartlepool there will be connecting trains to/from Middlesbrough. Through trains resume late morning. We intend to provide extra passenger capacity (over and above that which has been requested) on the first two from Hartlepool.

Other bus operators will be running direct buses Sunderland to Hartlepool (to connect with Grand Central trains to London) and South Hylton to Pelaw via all Metro stops.

Please note that the Metro is running at into Newcastle throughout the morning. Road traffic congestion will be expected from Heworth to Newcastle due to the Tyne Bridge works. Most Northern Rail tickets on this line to Newcastle are also valid on the Heworth-Newcastle Central bit of the Metro.

From Sunderland, the first thing running on metal rails towards Newcastle is a metro at 12:17 followed by a train at 12:30 - all earlier departures being buses, from Fawcett Street.

Please purchase travel tickets from station ticket machines or apps in the normal way.

North East Coastliners fyi, Incidents on Teesside & County Durham fyi, North East Alert fyi

08/11/2024

Lovely to see 45118 pass the office window just now. Should go south around 4pm. Please savour from a responsible place and do not trespass on the railway.

06/11/2024

26/10/2024

We made CityTransport history today. For the first time, we have delivered on a rail closure where we have provided the entirety of the scheduled rail replacement service between Darlington and Northallerton.

Thank you so much to everybody on our team for making this happen, and to our client and their TOC for believing in us.

Tomorrow we are back supporting in the Thornaby area along with some other operators.

08/10/2024

Little visit to South Hylton to support the risk assessment process for potential emergency Tyne and Wear Metro deployments North East Combined Authority

Ironically the vegetation here may pose an issue to double-deck vehicles but less so these versatile high-capacity, high-specification articulated vehicles.

Thank you also to the lovely residents there for their consideration when parking.

29/09/2024

Late night rail replacing....

Bus southbound to Middlesbrough currently at Seaham (on time).

Other bus currently between Wetheral and Brampton (a little later than the schedule created) running all stations EASTBOUND to Newcastle.

19/09/2024

And it's Darlington this evening for covering 2D72 for our friends at Northern

13/09/2024

Ourselves and lots of other bus/coach operators will converge on the ECML this weekend and all remaining weekends in September for a planned closure from Newcastle to Edinburgh while Network Rail undertake various works.

If you are a member of the public needing to make a journey, please check the various apps and websites of London North Eastern Railway, TransPennine Express Trains, Lumo, Northern and CrossCountry trains as your journey will either be a diverted train or a bus, and in either case will take longer. Note that either a valid LNER or an 'any permitted' ticket will be needed to travel on the diverted trains, which will travel via Hexham and Carstairs and that a seat reservation is recommended.

A couple of polite requests for the bus enthusiast community:
-as a matter of policy we do not communicate in advance where our vehicles or people may be or what services they might work. First and foremost we are there to meet our client requirements, which are to transport their customers but also comply with various policies and so on.

-secondly, please feel very welcome to take general photos from a distance. Please however appreciate that everyone (whether ground staff, or drivers) is there to work, and you are politely asked to give space to passengers and staff as everyone will likely be very busy. Put simply, the time to ask what engine variant is in one of our vehicles is on the occasions when we attend enthusiast events, NOT while staff are collectively trying to load four coaches with people and luggage. Worth adding that photos out in the beautiful Northumberland, Berwickshire or Haddingtonshire countryside would look much better than ones taken outside Central or Waverley stations.

-finally do please appreciate that a valid rail ticket is required for travel and that there are likely to be railway staff at one end of the journey or both to scan these. For the avoidance of doubt members of our 'fans' group also need a train ticket if they wish to travel. There will be a 'bus enthusiast' trip next month which would be a much more appropriate occasion to enjoy our fleet.

01/09/2024

A busy Sunday for

25/08/2024

Sadly three trains in a row from Newcastle to Hexham and Carlisle are cancelled this afternoon.

Trains at 11:54 and 15:55 (from Newcastle) appear booked to run (both four cars).

We have been booked to provide a bus (all stations to Carlisle) leaving Newcastle at 14:00 booked Hexham time 15:21 and Haltwistle 15:49.

This could change so do refer to info at the station and on the website.

Tyne Valley Rail Users' Group - TVRUG and Tyne Valley Community Rail Partnership and The Hexham Courant fyi