Arriva
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Arriva are introducing a new range of travel tickets for students in Post 16 education.
Flexible payment options including day, weekly, termly or annual ticket price options
Facility to travel any time of the day during the Academic Year – this includes half term
breaks as well as Christmas & Easter Holidays .
The travel passes will offer students travel within a particular zone or between zones.
There are a number of zones and each zone will represent a particular geographical
area
There are 8 zones:
1. Berwick
2. Alnwick
3. Amble
4. Ashington
5. Morpeth
6. Blyth Valley
7. Hexham
8. Tyne & Wear (Add-On Zone)
The costs will range from £430 a year for a one zone pass; £530 a year for a two zone
pass and £660 for a three zones or more pass, which will cover all of Northumberland,
Newcastle and North Tyneside.
For most, but not all, Post 16 students the purchase of a one zone pass will be
sufficient to enable them to travel to and from their local high school.
The purchase of two or three zone tickets will be required if longer distance travel is
required.
Arriva will soon be able to offer direct debit facilities for annual ticket purchases which
will enable families to buy these zonal tickets at the prices quoted here without the
need to make one big payment. Further details will be available shortly via this
webpage and Arriva’s official website at http://www.arrivabus.co.uk/
1 Day Ticket
7 Day Ticket
Term Plus (16 weeks)
Annual Ticket
1 Zone
£3.20 buy on bus
£12.80 buy on bus
£179.20 buy online
£430.00 buy online
Arriva Zone Structure
Berwick Zone: Berwick to Belford
2 Zone
£4.00 buy on bus
£16.00 buy on bus
£224.00 buy online
£530.00 buy online
3+ Zone
£5.00 buy on bus
£20.00 buy on bus
£280.00buy online
£660.00buy online
Alnwick Zone: Alnwick, Longhoughton, Felton, Longframlington, Thropton, Bamburgh
Amble Zone: Amble, Acklington, Widdrington, Warkworth
Morpeth Zone: Morpeth, Longhorsley, Stannington, Pegswood (existing Triple Ticket zone)
Ashington Zone: Cresswell, Ellington Ashington, Newbiggin, Bedlington (existing Triple Ticket
zone)
Blyth Valley Zone: Blyth, Cramlington, Seaton Delaval (existing Triple Ticket zone)
Hexham Zone: Hexham, Heddon (existing Triple Ticket zone)
For travel to Tyne & Wear - add one zone
Go North East
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For students, living in Northumberland and starting at college or staying on at school
Sixth Form in September a ‘Get Around’ key smartcard is required – it’s free and you
can apply online and it will be posted out to you.
You can apply at :-
https://www.simplygo.com/buy-tickets-online/
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Once you’ve got your smartcard, you can then save on your bus travel, with single
journeys starting from just 90p.
You can also buy tickets for a day, week, 28 day, term (16 weeks) or for the whole
year. Travel during holiday periods is also included.
There is also a pay monthly option, to help spread the cost of travel across the year.
The prices are as follows:-
1 Day Ticket
7 Day Ticket
28 Day Ticket
Term Plus (16 weeks)
Annual Ticket
Pay Monthly
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£3.75 buy on the bus
£15.90 buy on the bus
£15.40 buy online
£60 buy online
£224.49 buy online
£599.99 buy online
£55 per month, buy online & pay with a recurring payment
The “Get Around” ticket entitles you to all day travel and at weekends too.
The key smartcard is safe and secure.
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Your travel is loaded onto a smartcard, when you board the bus you are required to
hold your smartcard over the reader and wait for the light to go green.
If you lose your key smartcard, Go North East can replace it with all the valid tickets
you had on your original card (there is a £5 replacement fee).
Stagecoach
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The key change, since 2013, is that Stagecoach will no longer ask that the young
person is in education, they just need to be under 19 i.e. 5 to 18 years old.
The prices of the actual VIP tickets, to buy with the VIP ID card, will remain valid for
2014 but are subject to review in Jan 2015.
The link below will bring you to the bus company VIP page, which will be updated this
month with all the details for the new 2014/15 academic year.
http://www.stagecoachbus.com/Young%20people%20and%20students%20Newcastle.
aspx
Unirider tickets – for students aged 16+
 It is a bus ticket you can use to get around the north east on Stagecoach buses; there
are no restrictions on its use.
 You can buy annual and term tickets throughout the academic year, there’s also a
summer holiday version.
 From 81p* a day you’ll be able to use your Unirider ticket on any Stagecoach North
East bus.
 Unirider is available to full time students aged over 16, who hold a valid student ID
card.
 *Daily price based on an annual ticket bought online @ £245 over 303 days.
Where can I use it?
 Unirider is valid on all Stagecoach North East buses throughout Tyne & Wear and
Tees Valley including into Northumberland, Hartlepool, Teesside, Sunderland,
Newcastle and South Shields.
Online Prices
North East Summer
£70
North East Annual
£245
North East Term 1
£105
North East Term 2/3
£165
North East Term 2
£105
North East Term 3
£105
To apply or find out more:http://www.stagecoachbus.com/newcastle-unirider.aspx
Other Bus Companies
Northumberland County Council is currently liaising with a number of other bus companies
including Perrymans Buses, Glen Valley, Travelsure & Howard Snaith with a view to
establishing better value for money tickets for Post 16 students. Further details of these ticket
offers will be published on this website soon.
Northumberland College
Northumberland College are also funding a number of bus services:
They include:
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Service 100, operated by Arriva on college days from 1st September 2014:
Morpeth, bus station
Kirkley Hall college
Ponteland, Bell Villas
Newcastle Airport
Cramlington, Dudley Lane
Blyth, bus station
0810
0830
…
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…
…
0900
0920
0930
0936
0958
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1100
1120
1130
1136
1158
…
1300
1320
1330
1336
1358
…
1500
1520
1530
1536
1558
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1630
1640
1646
1708
1732
Blyth, bus station
Cramlington, Dudley Lane
Newcastle Airport
Ponteland, Bell Villas
Kirkley Hall college
Morpeth, bus station
0724
0750
0813
0818
0829
0853
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1000
1023
1028
1039
1058
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1200
1223
1228
1239
1258
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1400
1423
1428
1439
1458
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1600
1623
1628
1639
1658
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1729
1748
Buses run direct between Morpeth and the college.
The following extra connecting buses are to be introduced:
X15, Alnwick bus station dep 0719 via Shilbottle and Felton to Morpeth bus station, arr 0803
35A, Woodhorn dep 0724 via Newbiggin and Ashington bus station (0745), to Morpeth bus
station, arr 0802
35A, Morpeth bus station dep 1757 via Ashington bus station (1814) and Newbiggin to
Woodhorn, arr 1835
Connections are also provided (it’s suggested with through journeys) with existing 35s
between Morpeth and Ashington college, every 2 hours in the middle of the day.