Welcome to Flex & Travel

New College Durham has teamed up with Arriva and Go North East to bring you Flex & Travel for full-time further education students. You can use your tickets throughout the academic year until the end of the summer term.

Flexible study

Flex and Travel lets you select the transport options which best suit you to meet the challenges of balancing flexible study with home and part-time work demands.  You may want to stay later to use the learning resource centre, the internet, or the gym, or you may want to get to College earlier to study before your classes; the choice is yours.

Unlimited fun; evening and weekend travel

When studying stops you can still use your bus ticket to meet up with friends for a night out, go into the City, or shopping at the weekend, so you know you can get about safely and easily.  Flex & Travel offers you unlimited travel seven days a week on services operated by Arriva or Go North East depending on your ticket choice.  Check with each bus operator for details.

Planning your journey

For further details on how to plan your journey, including sample bus routes from Arriva and Go North East click here.

Applying for subsidised travel is easy:

If you are under 19 years when you start your course and live in County Durham click here.

If you are under 19 years when you start your course and live outside County Durham click here.

If you are over 19 when you start your course and live in County Durham click here.

Please contact the Access Fund Administrator on 0191 375 4205 for an application form and terms and conditions, email access.fund@newdur.ac.uk

How to get your student travel ticket

If you have chosen Arriva as your chosen bus operator click here.

If you have chosen Go North East as your chosen bus operator click here.

Terms and Conditions

Click here for the full terms and conditions of Flex and Travel.  

Getting here by car

From A1(M) Northbound

• Leave the A1 at Junction 62 (signed Durham, A690 and Consett).
• At the roundabout at the top of the slip road, join the A690 (Carville Link Road) towards Durham.
• At the roundabout junction with the A181, take the third exit and proceed downhill to next roundabout and go straight ahead across the bridge.
• At the traffic lights turn right onto the A691.
• Continue under the railway bridge and at the next roundabout, join the B6532.
• At the next roundabout turn left.
• Continue straight over the next roundabout.
• The college campus is the first turning on the right (see inset).

From A1(M) Southbound

• Leave the A1(M) at Junction 63 (signed Chester-le-Street & A167).
• At the roundabout at the bottom of the slip road, join the A167 towards Durham.
• Remain on the A167 over 4 roundabouts (passing ‘The Riverside’ cricket ground on the left).
• At the fifth roundabout, take the second exit onto Front Street and
  continue to the roundabout junction with the B6532.
• Turn right at the roundabout onto the B6532 and the college campus is located on the right (see inset).

Getting here by Train

Durham receives services from Newcastle, Darlington, York, London and Edinburgh.