(26 Feb 2021, 7:48 pm)Storx wrote Yeah, this is what they're allowed on:
You can travel the length and breadth of the region on local bus services operated by all the participating companies listed below:Please note that the Explorer North East Ticket is NOT valid on:
- Arriva North East
- Go North East
- Shields Ferry
- Stagecoach North East & Cumbria services within the Carlisle city boundary
- Travelsure**
- Tyne & Wear Metro
– Trains (except Sunderland to Blaydon rail line)
– National Express coaches
– Pre-booked coach tours
– Hadrian’s Wall service
– Moorbus services
– City sightseeing tours
The DayRover is anything above but inside T&W only. Unless things have changed the Explorer ticket from Arriva won't work on a GNE ticket machine and vice versa though so don't look like a twat and scan it.
OK, that's the standard blurb from the "NetworkOne" web site, was just checking to see whether anything there had changed, particularly in light of some of the comments that there was a specific X9/X10 version of some of the other tickets.
The twist I had with the GNE / Arriva scanners was drivers insisting that I scan the ticket, even though it was issued by the other company. Mostly they'd register after I pointed this out, some insisted that I scan anyway before working out why it wouldn't work, and a couple of numpties were adamant it wasn't valid because it was for the other company, "and look, it doesn't scan, that proves it"!