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

(21 May 2026, 9:03 am)Adrian wrote From: https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/eldon-squa...ry-closure

Might need to merge these as I made one as didn't see this haha

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(21 May 2026, 9:03 am)Adrian wrote From: https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/eldon-squa...ry-closure

Also while at it. While not mentioned by GNE. The 355/356 will move to the X46 stand in Haymarket while the X46 moves to the Q3 stand

(21 May 2026, 9:03 am)Adrian wrote From: https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/eldon-squa...ry-closure

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

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.

(21 May 2026, 2:47 pm)V514DFT wrote What an odd day to start surfacing work, you'd think they would of started on a Monday

Back to this, I've just spotted that Tuesday 9th is the Blaydon Race, which will be why work doesn't start until the Wednesday.

First day today, seems to have been ok tho absolutely no shelter or seating for passengers waiting on the 21/22/28/9/x12/X21 and plenty of taxis blocking stops,

(01 Jun 2026, 1:00 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Back to this, I've just spotted that Tuesday 9th is the Blaydon Race, which will be why work doesn't start until the Wednesday.

Ahhhhh of course, that makes sense

One thing that looks to have been poorly communicated is that services only serve one stop on Newgate St so the 21 no longer serves Wilko during the closure

(10 Jun 2026, 7:16 pm)Ambassador wrote One thing that looks to have been poorly communicated is that services only serve one stop on Newgate St so the 21 no longer serves Wilko during the closure

Surely they could of used Blackett Street?, atleast theres shelters there

(10 Jun 2026, 9:43 pm)V514DFT wrote Surely they could have used Blackett Street?, atleast theres shelters there

Blackett St is too busy with stagecoach. Market St or Pilgrim St would have worked better. 

It’s only since the new station opened 20 odd year ago that South Gateshead services had eldon square. The 21 and others used to serve newbridge and pilgrim st

(10 Jun 2026, 10:26 pm)Ambassador wrote Blackett St is too busy with stagecoach. Market St or Pilgrim St would have worked better. 

It’s only since the new station opened 20 odd year ago that South Gateshead services had eldon square. The 21 and others used to serve newbridge and pilgrim st

tbf using Haymarket for some of the Gateshead services probably would've been better. The 306/307/308/309/350/351/X39 could've easily been moved to start from St Mary's Place for a few weeks. It's not like they're miles away, could even still drop people off at Haymarket aswell, using the drop off stand and then just going straight out.

(11 Jun 2026, 7:10 am)Storx wrote tbf using Haymarket for some of the Gateshead services probably would've been better. The 306/307/308/309/350/351/X39 could've easily been moved to start from St Mary's Place for a few weeks. It's not like they're miles away, could even still drop people off at Haymarket aswell, using the drop off stand and then just going straight out.

Why would they do that though. Why move them services out and move them onto St Mary's place which is already crowded enough as it is with the Stagecoach services and the services coming from Gateshead 

There's no clear solution. If one comment on here yesterday stated Newcastle City Council should have found somewhere for the taxis to go

But hey this is Newcastle City Council for you. You know the same people who tried to close Blackett Street and had no clear plan where all the Stagecoach stuff will go

(11 Jun 2026, 8:21 am)Nerd4321 wrote Why would they do that though. Why move them services out and move them onto St Mary's place which is already crowded enough as it is with the Stagecoach services and the services coming from Gateshead 

There's no clear solution. If one comment on here yesterday stated Newcastle City Council should have found somewhere for the taxis to go

But hey this is Newcastle City Council for you. You know the same people who tried to close Blackett Street and had no clear plan where all the Stagecoach stuff will go

I was thinking more the stops at the opposite side of the road, where they serve anyway and are already quite popular. Other than the Q3, they're the only buses which use them anyway and are a decent waiting environment compared to some of the stops on Newgate Street. 

Unless you're going to one of the extremes, they're very frequent anyway so you wont be waiting long.

Market Street was/is the obvious answer. Plenty of layover space

(11 Jun 2026, 1:20 pm)Ambassador wrote Market Street was/is the obvious answer. Plenty of layover space

Market Street East layover space is currently entirely closed.

Its all about money....for every bus that enters haymarket bus station theybare charged 90p 306 307 309 350 351 to start from St mary way.... how much would Nexus lose?