Service 1
Withdrawn between Gateshead & Wrekenton/Kibblesworth (see NEW 23/24)
Mon-Sat daytime trips extended to Metro Centre (every 30 mins) replacing service 96.
Sunday daytime trips extended to Metro Centre (every 30 mins, alternating as 95/96).
Sunday daytime buses will run every 30 mins Metro Centre-Whitley Bay, with a 15 min frequency
between Newcastle and North Shields.
Journeys will run as 95 or 96 if they run to Metro Centre, 95N if they terminate at Newcastle, or 96G when they terminate at Gateshead.
Service 21
Chester le Street - Newcastle trips renumbered 22.
NEW service 22
New number for CLS-NCL trips.
NEW Service 23
Evening/Sunday Hourly service Newcastle-Low Fell-Kibblesworth, replacing 1A
NEW service 24
Wrekenton-Low Fell-Newcastle, replacing service 1.
Runs every 30 mins Mon-Sat daytime, and hourly eve/Sun.
Service 31
All trips will serve Rose Street in Teams. Times of 31 and 48A will be co-ordinated to a 30 min frequency between Metro Centre and Rose Street.
Service 47
No trips will serve Rose Street.
Service 49B
Renumbered 48.
Service 49C
Renumbered 48A, and at times when 49C runs every 30 mins, alternate trips will run will Derwentwater Road, instead of Rose Street, and be renumbered 48B. When 49C is hourly, it will still run hourly via Rose Street as 48A.
Service 57
Revised route and timetable, extended to Hadrian Park and withdrawn Heworth-Wardley.
Daily daytime service will be every 20 mins, Running Heworth Metro-Beacon Lough-Gateshead-Newcastle-Coast Road-Hadrian Park, with evening buses running every 30 mins.
Service 58
Withdrawn Hadrian Park-Newcastle.
Mon-Sat daytime buses will run every 20 mins (NCL-Heworth), Sunday daytime every 30 mins and hourly on Evenings. (combined with 59, will be every 10/15/30 mins Newcastle-Fewster Square).
NEW Service 59
Newcastle-Felling Square-Fewster Square-Meresyde-Lingey Lane-Wardley-Ellen Wilkinson-Meresyde-Newcastle.
Buses will run every 20 mins on Mon-Sat daytimes, every 30 mins on Sunday daytimes, and hourly on Evenings.
Combined with 58, buses will run every 10/15/30 Fewster Square-Newcastle.
Service 64/64A & NEW service 65
Reduced to run hourly on Mon-Say daytimes only. Buses will run as 64 Gateshead-Rose Street-Dun Cow-Wellington Road-Park Terrace-Dunston Monument, then continue via Knightside Gardens and 95 route to Gateshead.
Buses leaving Gateshead to Bensham Bank, Lobley Hill, and Dunston will show 65.
Service 67
Omits Fewster Square on route to Wardley, stopping on Meresyde instead.
Service 69
No longer serves Watermill Lane, Fewster Square or Meresyde.
Buses will run via The Drive to Heworth, then via Felling by-pass to Wardley.
Service 92
Withdrawn Ellen Wilkinson-Fewster Square.
Buses will run to/from Bill Quay turning circle via Fisherwell Road and Gosforth Terrace.
Service 95
Current service reduced to hourly, and renumbered as 64 towards Gateshead, and 65 from Gateshead (Mon-Sat daytimes) with buses continuing to Knightside Gardens and Dunston.
Sunday buses will contine as 95 and are extended to Newcastle and Whitley Bay on current service 1 route.
Service 96
Extended to Newcastle and Whitley Bay on current service 1 route (daytimes only)
New Hourly Evening service introduced running Metro Centre-Newcastle.
In Newcastle buses will run from Theatre Royal via Bigg Market and High Level Br.
Service 96A
Replaced by hourly 96.
Service 97
Mon-Sat daytime frequency reduced to 20 mins (every 10 mins with NEW 98)
Evening buses will run hourly, combining with 96 to give a bus every 30 mins Newcastle-Bensham Bank.
Buses will terminate at Thatre Royal, then run via Bigg Market and High Level Bridge to Gateshead, no longer serving Gateshead High Street or Jackson Street.
Service 98/98A.
Current services will be withdrawn, and replaced by NEW 98 and X98.
Knightside Gardens-Newcastle will be served by revised service 96, and 95 on Sunday. A new evening service to Gateshead and Newcastle will be provided by extended service 96.
NEW service 98
Theatre Royal-High Level Br-Gateshead-Bensham Bank-Whickham Front Street-Whaggs Lane-Broadway-Fellside Road then anitclockwise on Parkway back to Fellside Road and Broadway, then Bensham Bank and Gateshead to Market Street Theatre Royal.
buses will run every 20 mins on Mon-Sat daytime (every 10 mins with service 97).
NEW service X98
Will run Fellside Park-Broadway-Front Street-Dunston Bank-Dun Cow-Pitz Soccer-Yetholm Road-CENTRELINK-Forth Banks-Clayton Street-Market street on Mon-Fri Mornings ONLY.
On Mon-Fri afternoons, buses will run Theatre Royal-Centre Station-Dunston-Dunston Bank-Front Street-Broadway-Fellside Park, with some returning to Newcastle as 98 or X98.
VEHICLE ALLOCATION
NEW streetlite microhybrids for FAB57.
NEW streetlite microhybrids for CITYLINK 58/59.
NEW streetlite microhybrids for GNE 23/24.
Cascade Citylink Versa to Stanley for revised Diamond Network, due to superior climbing ability.
Cascade Diamond Citaro to Riverside for revised Highwayman 97/98.
Cascade Highwayman Scania to Percy Main for service 17.
Cascade Nexus Solo from Deptford to Riverside for 64/65.
NEW Optare Solo to Deptford for GNE services 38/238/239.
5150-5171 all withdrawn.
Evening 23/24 and 58/59 interwork in Newcastle.
Evening 96/97 interwotk at Metro Centre.
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