(02 Nov 2020, 11:45 am)OrangeArrow49 wrote Thank you for the replies and help. I'm not sure if Lobley Hill Road is too much of a walk, and I knew, but forgot about the expresses along there! Just looking for alternatives back to Newcastle if the 93 doesn't show up, and the 93 only goes to Gateshead Interchange whereas the Lobley Hill Road services go into Newcastle, the expresses to Eldon Square where I need to be to get my bus home! Struggling to work out which service is best!

The hike along Kingsway isnt the most pleasant. Particularly in the wet. 

I've often found waiting at the stop behind Mothercare a good option. If you're coming from one of the college sites, it's only a few mins walk. Certainly quicker and easier than shanks pony up to Kingsway North/Maingate.
It's the only stop on the Valley that both the 93 and 94 share and providing you're not fussy or there are delays in one direction, it gives a bit of flexibility. 
Should the 93 not rock up, then a 94 to Chowdene, Low Fell, Beacon Lough/QE, Felling or even Heworth (and connecting to one of the many buses to Newcastle from each of those locations) may be an idea.
As an example the 94 will drop you off at the lights just before the QE and from the very same stop, you have the X1, 56, 57 and 28 which will take you over the river.

When I've worked down there, I've always went to the Valley with the idea that I'd have no idea which way I'd get home. The open mindset, that stop behind Mothercare and knowing where connecting services operated from helped me many a time.