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BUS SERVICE CHANGES IN THE NORTHUMBERLAND AND TYNESIDE AREA From 16 September 2012 Arriva North East Please note, the following services remain unchanged: 3, 6, 13, 18, 19, 32/32a, 32, 32b, 33a, 59, 100, 295, 335, 438, 494, 508, 685, 714, M71, W2, X85 Service 1 Blyth - Widdrington Estate The route will be simplified with all buses running as service 1. The route will remain the same as it is now between Blyth and Widdrington Council Estate, and will serve Cresswell. The route north of Widdrington will be replaced by the 20/X20. The current 1A route in Newbiggin will no longer run. Service 2 Blyth - Morpeth The route will be simplified, with all buses running as service 2 between Blyth and Morpeth (there will no longer be a 2A service number). The route will remain as it is now, but with all buses running via Stead Lane in Bedlington. Service 4 Callerton - Metrocentre Nexus contract service withdrawn and will be replaced by the new 84/84A service Service 10/11 Newcastle - Blyth Service will now be replaced in parts by the X10 and X11 which will now operate evening services. The 43 will replace the 10/11 in the evenings between Cramlington and Newcastle. This will provide a faster, half hourly service to Seaton Burn, with reduced services after 1800. Service 144 Morpeth - Thropton This will be replaced by the Service 14 between Morpeth and Thropton. There will be no changes to this route. It will continue to Newcastle as the X14. Service 18 Ashington - Morpeth The service will be replaced by the new service 36 which will provide a more frequent hourly service. Service 20C Widdrington - Coquet High This service will be run by another operator School Service 430 North Seaton - Linton This service has been renumbered from 430 to 30. Buses will serve Ashington Bus Station in both directions, it will no longer serve the Lintonville stop in the town centre Service M3 Morpeth - Lancaster Park/Stobhill This service will be replaced by the new 33 service between Morpeth and Lancaster Park/Northgate Hospital. There will also be a new 38 service between Morpeth and Stobhill. There will be no change to the route Service 35 Morpeth - Newbiggin This will remain the same route as it is now, except Monday to Saturday daytimes buses will serve Cresswell Arms rather than Seacrest Road in Newbiggin. In the evenings and on Sundays, buses will serve both the Cresswell Arms and Seacrest Road arrivabus.co.uk Service 41 Newcastle - Blyth This Sunday only service will no longer operate and will be replaced by new journeys on the X13 Service 43 Newcastle - Cramlington This service will run between Newcastle and Cramlington only. The route will remain as it is now between Newcastle and Cramlington Shops. Passengers travelling between Cramlington and Morpeth can change at Bedlington. Service 322 and Newcastle - Morpeth This service will be replaced by the 44 and the 44A. The 44 will operate Monday to Saturday daytime between X44 Newcastle and Dinnington via the current Monday to Saturday daytime X44 route. The 44A runs between Newcastle and Morpeth via the current Monday to Saturday daytime X44 route, but at school times buses will follow the 322 route between Blagdon and Morpeth. Service 45 Newcastle - Brunswick There are no changes on Monday to Saturday daytimes, with buses running between Newcastle and Brunswick as they do now. Early morning, evening and Sunday buses to follow the standard Monday to Saturday daytime route, there will be no extensions to and from Dinnington. Service 46/ 46A Newcastle - Great Park/Brunton There is no change to the existing Monday to Saturday daytime route. However, evening and Sunday journeys will be Park re-numbered from 46A to 46 to simplify the service and will run via the daytime route, serving all of the estate. There will be an earlier bus between Great Park and Newcastle Monday to Friday mornings arriving into Newcastle at 0700. Service 52 Ashington - Freeman Hospital Service will no longer operate, it will be replaced by 53/53A, 57, 58/58A, and X5 X22. - 57 - Ashington - Cramlington - 58/58a - Bacon Hill - Cramlington - 53/53a - Cramlington - Killingworth - X5 - Cramlington - Quorum - Four Lane Ends - Freeman Hospital Passengers travelling from Ashington/Bedlington to the Freeman Hospital can change at Cramlington or Newcastle Passengers travelling from Killingworth - Freeman Hospital can catch a Stagecoach bus to Four Lane Ends and connect with the X5 to the Freeman Hospital. Passengers travelling from Ashington/Bedlington/Killingworth to the DSS offices in Longbenton will still be able to travel at peak times using the 494/498 which will arrive at Longbenton 0745 and leave 1630 arrivabus.co.uk Service 53/53A Cramlington - Whitley Bay / There will be a new and improved frequency from 30 minutes to every 15 minutes between Cramlington and New North Shields York. The service will no longer operate between Blyth to Cramlington Shops. The Oval and The Avenues in Blyth are still served with services within a 500m distance. From Cramlington Shops the new 53 and 53A will run via Dudley Lane, Grieves Row, Fern Drive, Front Street, Burradon Road, Front Street, Station Road, West Bailey and Killingworth Bus Station, then the existing 53 route to New York roundabout (at the junction of New York Road and Rake Lane). The 53 will then run via its existing route to Whitley Bay, while the 53A will follow the current 56 route to North Shields. Peak time buses will serve Cobalt Business Park, running via Silverlink North, Quicksilver Way and Silver Fox Way. Buses will not serve Northumberland Business Park and the evening extension to Whitley Bay bandstand will no longer operate. Service 55 Newcastle - Forest Hall The route will operate as it does now except that evening journeys will observe the standard Monday to Saturday daytime route and will not serve Quorum Business Park. There will also be an earlier bus arriving into Newcastle at 0700. Service 56 Newcastle - North Shields This service will no longer operate replaced in parts by the 53A, X4 and X6 - 53A - Shiremoor - North Shields - X4 - Newcastle - South Gosforth - X6 - Newcastle - Quorum - Killingworth Backworth will be served by the 59 and X6. Service 57/57a Whitley Bay - Cramlington / This service will operate with all buses via the current 57 route between Whitley Bay and Cramlington Shops, except Ashington that all buses will serve Tilmouth Avenue and Elsdon Avenue in Seaton Delaval. From Cramlington Shops, buses will run via Dudley Lane, the B1326, Station Road, the A1171, Crow Hall Lane, Burdon Avenue, Arcot Avenue, Crow Hall Lane, the A1171, Nelson Drive, Nelson Road, Nelson Way, the A1068 Fisher Lane, the A192 Hartford Bank, the A1068 Hartford Road, the A1068 Choppington Road, High Street, the A196 Stakeford Lane, West Ford Road, Blackclose Bank and North Seaton Road to Ashington Bus Station. From there, the 57 will extend to/from North Seaton via the current X22 route. Buses operate via of North Seaton estate. Evening and Sunday buses will extend from Whitley Bay to North Shields via the existing route to Billy Mill roundabout then the current 56 route to North Shields town centre. The evening and Sunday journeys to Beacon Hill will no longer operate arrivabus.co.uk Service 58/58A Cramlington Local Service This is a new service, which will be a circular around Cramlington. Starting and finishing at Cramlington Shops, buses will run via Dudley Lane, Low Main Place, Station Road, the A1172, Beacon Lane, Eastbourne Gardens, Beacon Lane, Nelson Drive, the A1171, East Hartford, the A192, the B1505, the A1061, the B1505, the B1320 Village Road, Northumbrian Road, Cateran Way, Northumbrian Road, the A1174 and Dudley Lane. Buses will run in both directions except in Beacon Hill village where they will run clockwise only and in East Hartford village where they will run anti- clockwise only. Buses will run both ways on Cateran Way Service 322 Blagdon - Morpeth Chantry This service will no longer operate it will become part of the new 44A School Service 332 Regent Centre - Quorum Business The current section of route between Great Park and Regent Centre will no longer operate, which means that the 332 Park will run between Regent Centre and Quorum Business Park only. The route between Regent Centre and Four Lane Ends will be the same as now, but then buses will operate the same way as service 555 via Balliol West Business Park and Quorum Business Park before returning to Four Lane Ends Service 430 North Seaton - Linton Will be renumbered 30 Service 434 Ashington - Blyth Will be renumbered 34 Service 495 Loansdean - St Robert This service will no longer operate Newminster School Service 498 Blyth - DSS Longbenton This will operate the same route as now between Blyth and the roundabout at the junction of Laverock Hall Road and the A192. Buses will then run via the A1061, Durham Road, Northumbrian Road, Dudley Lane, Cramlington Shops, Dudley Lane, Northern Terrace, Grieves Row, Fern Drive, Front Street, Burradon Road, Front Street, Station Road, West Bailey, Killingworth Bus Station, Southgate, Great Lime Road, Benton Lane, Four Lane Ends, Front Street, Whitley Road, DSS Tyneview Park, Whitley Road, Front Street and Benton Park Road to DSS Longbenton. The morning journey will run via DSS Tyneview Park then finish at DSS Longbenton; the afternoon journey will start from DSS Tyneview Park and run via DSS Longbenton. Neither will serve Ainthorpe Gardens. Service 499 Cramlington - DSS Longbenton This service will no longer operate, some parts of the route will be served by the 332 and 498. Wideopen and Seaton Burn will no longer be served on this route.