Service changes 47 , 643 and 91A
643:
To make a direct way , the 643 will follow Sunniside Road out of Sunniside onto Whaggs Lane before coming back onto Whickham Front Street VIA Rectory Lane , instead a replacement 643A will run the already existing route of the 643.
47:
The 47 will use Medomsley Road out of Consett Bus Station which will VIA Pont Road North , Medomsley Manor Road , Hamsterley Mill Lintzford Road , join back on to the already existing route at into Burnopfield New Road , and lead back into Newcastle using A692 , for alternatives on already existing route , use X71 and others including X72 etc.
91A:
91A will run throughoout the day instead of 07:49 and 08:49 and will run until 19:49
Yours Sincerely , EastGatesheadRider X58
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(01 Jul 2026, 4:43 pm)EastGatesheadRider wrote [ -> ]Service changes 47 , 643 and 91A
643:
To make a direct way , the 643 will follow Sunniside Road out of Sunniside onto Whaggs Lane before coming back onto Whickham Front Street VIA Rectory Lane , instead a replacement 643A will run the already existing route of the 643.
47:
The 47 will use Medomsley Road out of Consett Bus Station which will VIA Pont Road North , Medomsley Manor Road , Hamsterley Mill Lintzford Road , join back on to the already existing route at into Burnopfield New Road , and lead back into Newcastle using A692 , for alternatives on already existing route , use X71 and others including X72 etc.
91A:
91A will run throughoout the day instead of 07:49 and 08:49 and will run until 19:49
Yours Sincerely , EastGatesheadRider X58
That 47 change would never happen. With No X46, the 47 has to fill in for different places such as Shotley Bridge, Bridgehill and Chopwell. What you're suggesting is that all those places lose out their local town connection to have their bus be half duplicated route to the X71 and for the Medomsley route suggestion, They already have 2 Bus services that are every 30 minutes. So if your going to have the 47 go down that way you would have to get rid of the X71.
Next point to put on the 47 is that that would make Consett only have 1 Metrocentre Bus. We had 4 at one point, now at 2. People would hate it alot if it was down to 1.
I'm looking at where your suggesting to run the 47 and I'm confused. You've duplicated the V5 Pont Road to Medomsley corridor and most of the X71 from Pont to Newcastle.
I know its a suggestion but that 47 change would be the worst thing to ever happen
Im not the one that suggested that , Imheard from my friend that that should happen he wrote it and I completely disagree with him. Is the 643 and 91A ok cause there mine
Yours Sincerley , EastGatesheadRider X58
You do know theres already a service suggestion thread for GNE, every service you mentioned there is or has been ran by GNE
Didn't want to clog the Northstar Thread with a service suggestion. but I think the All of Winlaton/Blaydon/Ryton/Swalwell/Dunston/Whickham/Sunniside/Lobley Hill all deserve direct Team Valley Retail World services.
Idea A: Clara Vale, Crawcrook, Ryton Village, Blaydon, Swalwell, Dunston Bank, Lobley Hill (Cragside Gardens), Team Valley
Idea B: High Spen, Greenside, Folly, Winlaton, Hole-in-The-Wall, Swallwell, Dunston (Park Terrace) NON STOP, Team Valley
Idea C: Metrocentre, Lambton Avenue. Whickham, Whickham Broadway, Sunniside, Lobley Hill (Malvern Gardens), Team Valley
(Yesterday, 8:22 pm)ASX_Terranova wrote [ -> ]Didn't want to clog the Northstar Thread with a service suggestion. but I think the All of Winlaton/Blaydon/Ryton/Swalwell/Dunston/Whickham/Sunniside/Lobley Hill all deserve direct Team Valley Retail World services.
Idea A: Clara Vale, Crawcrook, Ryton Village, Blaydon, Swalwell, Dunston Bank, Lobley Hill (Cragside Gardens), Team Valley
Idea B: High Spen, Greenside, Folly, Winlaton, Hole-in-The-Wall, Swallwell, Dunston (Park Terrace) NON STOP, Team Valley
Idea C: Metrocentre, Lambton Avenue. Whickham, Whickham Broadway, Sunniside, Lobley Hill (Malvern Gardens), Team Valley
Imo none of those people need links to Team Valley there's better places (MetroCentre) which has everything there which is much closer.
The people who use Team Valley come from Gateshead and the places to the South like Birtley etc.
I don't think there should be a bus service but those people are more likely to go to Kingston Park because of the flagship Tesco there and large M&S food opposite.
(Today, 7:25 am)Storx wrote [ -> ]Imo none of those people need links to Team Valley there's better places (MetroCentre) which has everything there which is much closer.
The people who use Team Valley come from Gateshead and the places to the South like Birtley etc.
I don't think there should be a bus service but those people are more likely to go to Kingston Park because of the flagship Tesco there and large M&S food opposite.
Living in the Derwent Valley, I quite often pop over to Kingston Park rather than Team Valley. By car, it's just as easy to get to, and unless I want to buy a kitchen from Wren, a bed from Dreams, or a sofa from SCS, (the latter two are also present at Metrocentre) it pretty much has the same shops, with the added bonus of Aldi and Food Warehouse too.
(7 hours ago)MurdnunoC wrote [ -> ]Living in the Derwent Valley, I quite often pop over to Kingston Park rather than Team Valley. By car, it's just as easy to get to, and unless I want to buy a kitchen from Wren, a bed from Dreams, or a sofa from SCS, (the latter two are also present at Metrocentre) it pretty much has the same shops, with the added bonus of Aldi and Food Warehouse too.
Yeah not surprised, we sometimes head down from up in SE Northumberland for similar reasons as it has everything there together and it's easy to park unlike Cramlington.
Obviously I don't expect buses from Derwentside but imo it's a really badly connected place, we have hundreds of buses going to dives like Stanley because it was a popular place 30 year ago but really Kingston Park has much as as anywhere else and it's not
that bad to walk around.
You've got your supermarkets, you've got your Home Bargains and Poundland for you bargains, you've got Superdrug and Boots for your pharmacy needs, you've got Next, Tesco, TK Maxx and Matalan for your clothes, and you've got a few cafe's, Nando's and McDonalds for food. It's arguably everything you need really.
Number of buses from the West End of Newcastle - zero. The Metro always seems busy aswell from there.