Arriva North East
| Parent | Arriva |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Doxford Park, Sunderland |
| Service area |
County Durham North Yorkshire Teesside Tyneside Wearside |
| Service type | Bus services |
| Depots | 8 |
| Fleet | 575 (August 2015) |
| Website | www.arrivabus.co.uk/North-East |
Arriva North East is a bus operator in North East England. It is a subsidiary of Arriva.
In the 1980s as part of the privatisation of the National Bus Company, United Automobile Services was split in two with the northern part sold in a management buyout to Proudmutual as Northumbria Motor Services. In 1994 it was sold to British Bus.
The County Durham, North Yorkshire and Teesside operations upon privatisation in 1987 were sold in a management buyout to Caldaire Holdings. In 1992 it was sold to the Westcourt Bus Group, in 1995 to National Express and again in July 1996 to the Cowie Group.
Following the Cowie Group purchasing British Bus in August 1996, both were once again under common ownership, although North East Bus and Northumbria Motor Services continued to operate as separate entities. In November 1997 Cowie was rebranded as Arriva and new trading names introduced:
Wilson and reeves motor services
Gradually, the operations of Arriva North East and Arriva Northumbria were integrated, with common fleet numbering and management.
Arriva North East is a major operator around County Durham, Tyneside and the Tees Valley and runs regular buses as far north as Berwick-upon-Tweed, west to Carlisle and as far south as Scarborough in North Yorkshire.
Arriva North East operates over 400 buses on a mixture of local and interurban work.
Depots in company ownership are as follows:
A bus depot operated at Richmond until 4 March 2006. From that date, the depot was closed with the only remaining Arriva services through Richmond being the routes X26/27/28 which were transferred to Faverdale depot. At this time most of the council supported services previously run by Arriva were taken on by Dales & District to the same timetables and staffed by many of the drivers from the former Richmond depot.
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