From:
https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/eldon-squa...ry-closure
Eldon Square Bus Station will be closed while Newcastle City Council carry out essential resurfacing work, from 10 until 28 June.
During this period, most Go North East services that usually serve Eldon Square will arrive and depart from Newgate Street instead. This is with the exception of service 74, which will temporarily use Stand Y at Haymarket Bus Station, and services 684 and X85, which will run from a temporary stop located near the Eldon Square Bus Station entrance.
Stops on Newgate Street will be renumbered NG1-NG5 to help you easily locate the correct boarding point. The table and map below provide a full list of stopping locations for effected services.
If you usually board your bus on Newgate Street, your bus stop there may have changed so please use the table below to find out where your bus will stop while Eldon Square is closed.
All other city centre stops will still be served as planned.
Stagecoach & Go North East are having to divert and temporarily stop somewhere else while Eldon Square is closed for 3 weeks from the 10th June
Stagecoach services X77/X78/X79/X87/X88 will depart from Stand X in Haymarket & 49/X47 will depart from Stand Y.
Go North East will have services depart from Newgate Street with the exception of service 74 which will depart from Stand Y in Haymarket
Services 684/X85/685/X82 will be stopping at a temporary stop at the top of Eldon Square. Both pages linked below
https://www.stagecoachbus.com/service-up...tesarticle
https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/eldon-squa...ry-closure
How the hell does it take 3 weeks to resurface a bus station... This should be a weekend job working 24/7.
(21 May 2026, 10:29 am)Storx wrote [ -> ]How the hell does it take 3 weeks to resurface a bus station... This should be a weekend job working 24/7.
Because it also includes drainage work.
That will be hell when there are multiple 50 person + queues out on the street due to delayed and cancelled buses at peak times. Another reason to not bother making that journey.
What an odd day to start surfacing work, you'd think they would of started on a Monday
I hope the dates have been chosen as it is to be 7 day working, with the dates set to include 3 weekends.
Even more ideal would be if it includes multi-shift working where this actually assists progress (sometimes it's unavoidable that work has to pause for material to set, or it's prohibitively expensive to get the materials out of normal working hours of concrete/bitmac etc plants.) Availability of workforce being a genuine constraint. too - it's not just bus comapnies that can struggle for staff.
(21 May 2026, 4:47 pm)Busadvocate wrote [ -> ]I hope the dates have been chosen as it is to be 7 day working, with the dates set to include 3 weekends.
Even more ideal would be if it includes multi-shift working where this actually assists progress (sometimes it's unavoidable that work has to pause for material to set, or it's prohibitively expensive to get the materials out of normal working hours of concrete/bitmac etc plants.) Availability of workforce being a genuine constraint. too - it's not just bus comapnies that can struggle for staff.
Durham CC managed it with their evening resurfacing work. That was a joyful couple of weeks of rumbling equipment into the wee hours.
(21 May 2026, 10:14 am)X919 WGR wrote [ -> ]Bet that will be fun for Passengers. I do wonder which way most of the services will loop around to get back into their actual route. Once they've departed the Newgate Stands
For services like the 21 and X30/X70, the alternative stops are on the line of route anyway, there will just be a load of buses laying over, potentially blocking stands, specially the 21 stop.
Think the issue is going to be the 10/12/6/X45.
They must be looping around Gallowgate, St James Boulevard and Westgate Road, which will likely take more time to Central Station as there are either 5 or 6 extra set of lights for the buses to navigate.
Couple of things from me
It would make more sense to divert some buses to Market Street to alleviate pressure on Newgate Street and to lower the journey time
The red line no waiting will need to be heavily enforced
Until about what, 10 years ago, Newgate St was a very busy terminus for Stagecoach so it's not like it can't cope
Will expect a load of regulated running at Gateshead for some of the higher frequency routes
I agree all gateshead services should have terminated at Market Street
(22 May 2026, 9:09 am)Ambassador wrote [ -> ]Couple of things from me
It would make more sense to divert some buses to Market Street to alleviate pressure on Newgate Street and to lower the journey time
The red line no waiting will need to be heavily enforced
Until about what, 10 years ago, Newgate St was a very busy terminus for Stagecoach so it's not like it can't cope
Will expect a load of regulated running at Gateshead for some of the higher frequency routes
I was chatting with someone who said they would probably change at Gateshead with their day ticket to avoid the complications. I just need a single each way from where I am so that would cost me more and, besides, it's pot luck if you can even get a seat on the X21 or a long 21 at Gateshead, half the time.