(02 Sep 2015, 3:34 pm)Panasonic44 wrote I have been using Day Rover very long time to get to Metrocentre to Sunderland and back every time. It can be confusing when it says Newcastle to Sunderland.
Also Explorer ticket go's beyond Tyne and Wear boarders/Newcastle to Sunderland Line. e.g to Carlisle or Alnwick or Nunthorpe.
Also you can check via Northern Rail Network Map to where the zone are.
I'm sure the explorer is only valid on bus routes by companies that subscribe to it and not on rail lines beyond the Newcastle to Sunderland line, which tends to allow network day tickets and such for historical reasons, as much as anything (that bit of rail route has been slightly redundant since the Metro was extended to Sunderland)
This page confirms that, in fact
http://www.networkonetickets.co.uk/ticke...er-tickets
Ticket is NOT valid:
- ON TRAINS (except Newcastle to Sunderland)
- NATIONAL EXPRESS COACHES
- ON PRE-BOOKED COACH TOURS
- WEARDALE MOTOR SERVICE X21
- HADRIAN’S WALL SERVICE
- MOORBUS SERVICES X60/X61
- CITY SIGHTSEEING TOURS
So, I can use my explorer on the arriva bus that connects my co Durham village with Durham and Sunderland. And connections to Darlo, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough etc as well as anywhere through Tyne and Wear and Further north. I can get on a connecting GNE bus with it. If I want to catch the scarlet band bus that passes through my village, between Hartlepool and Durham, it's not valid and I'd need to by a different ticket.