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This website has complete details of bus, coach and train services in the Tyne and Wear council area (as at Nov 2007), as well as most of the rest of Great Britain and Ireland. The site also has links to Internet based transport information.  
The council's own website (which is good for transport information) is available here (Telephone 0191 203 3333).
PLEASE NOTE: THIS SITE HAS NO CONNECTION WITH THIS ORGANISATION IN ANY WAY.
 
Bus and Coach Transport information
This website contains details of 733 bus and 32 coach services that run within Tyne and Wear council's area. Details are available of 22 bus/coach operators that are based in the county and 46 companies that operate the local bus, coach and rail services. To book coach tickets, click here A web site covering the local bus services is available here with another one available here.

Rail transport information
This website contains details of 37 train services that run within Tyne and Wear council's area. To book train tickets, click here

Other Public Transport information
Details are available elsewhere of ferries and flights from the Tyne and Wear council area.

Hospitals served by public transport in this area:
  Sunderland, Royal Hospital
  South Shields, General Hospital
  Newcastle upon Tyne, RVI/Dental Hospital
  Newcastle upon Tyne, Freeman Hospital
  Benton, North Tyneside General Hospital
  Ryhope, Hospital
  Newcastle upon Tyne, General Hospital
  North Shields, North Tyneside Hospital
  Chichester, South Tyneside Hospital
  Gateshead, Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  Bensham, Hospital
  South Shields, South Tynside District Hospital



Supermarkets served by public transport in this area:
  Sunderland, Morrisons
  Boldon, Asda
  Newcastle upon Tyne, Kingston Park Tesco
  Seaburn, Morrisons
  Sunderland, Asda


Other information
The site also has a general map of the Tyneside region here, details of this site's data coverage in this area here and a list of 412 local cities, towns and villages. A Google Earth file for these is available here, please see the notes below about how to use this file.

Long distance walks in this area:
  Tyne Walk
  Hadrian's Wall


 
TOTAL BUS/COACH/TRAIN JOURNEYS
  (...Explanation ?)
Approx
Monday-Friday
journeys/day
7600 
 
Approx Schoolday
only journeys/day
210 
 
Approx Saturday journeys6768 (89%) 
 
Approx Sunday journeys2634 (34%) 
 
Services without
journey details
126 
 
 
 
Publicity used for this site:
DateDescription
1 Nov 2007  Internet Timetables 
1 Aug 2007  Western Gateshead Map 
1 Aug 2007  Washington and Houghton Map 
1 Aug 2007  Sunderland Map 
1 May 2007  Gateshead Schools booklet 
25 Mar 2007  Service Leaflet 
Google Earth map for Tyne and Wear council area

Google Earth Notes
If you have the Google Earth client (downloadable for free here) then a Google Earth KML file version of the maps on the right can be found here for the local services, and here for coach/train services. Each route can be clicked on to show start/finish points.
Map of local bus services
Map of local bus services in Tyne and Wear.
Map of long distance coach and train services
Map of coach/train services from Tyne and Wear.

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