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NECA U21 tickets - get around for a pound
 

NECA U21 Single and Day tickets

There's a great range of young persons tickets for travel across Tyne and Wear, Durham and Northumberland. 

 

These tickets are priced at £1 Single and £3 Day, and are exclusively for young persons aged 21 years or younger (ages 5 to 21 inclusive).

 

They are valid on all local buses throughout the Tyne and Wear, Durham and Northumberland. So whether it's around Newcastle, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Gateshead, Morpeth, Alnwick, Durham, Peterlee, and all points between, you're covered.   

 

These tickets are also valid on some cross-boundary routes, such as Service 59 into Hartlepool. 

 

You can buy these tickets on the bus from your driver. Additionally, the U21 Day ticket can also be bought as an m-ticket on the Stagecoach, Arriva or Go North East apps.

 

Customers aged 16 or over may be required to show a valid ID when buying or using these U21 products. Accepted forms of ID include Stagecoach U19 Card, Nexus U16 Card, Network One Young Persons Card, driving licence (inc. provisional), passport, student ID, NUS Extra/ TOTUM card, PASS card, Young Persons ID Card or an Arriva Teen Card.

 

These U21 products are introduced through a partnership of Stagecoach, North East Combined Authority, local councils and other bus operators, and are funded through HM Government's BSIP initiative.

 

 For details of a similar scheme for U21 travel in Tees Valley, please click here