Middlesbrough bus station

Middlesbrough Bus Station serves the town of Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire, England. It is located around from the town's railway station.

History

It was opened in 1982, at a cost of £5.3 million, by the actress Pat Phoenix. It stands partly on the site of the previous bus station, which belonged to United Automobile Services.
From mid-July 2012, the bus station was partially closed for around six weeks, to allow for improvement work to take place – at a cost of around £1.5 million. Work was carried out in order to improve accessibility for disabled people, by creating low floor access at the majority of stops. As well as this, work was undertaken to reconstruct the main concourse, and a partial reconstruction of the ramps.
In January 2024, Tees Valley Combined Authority announced a £15 million investment to refurbish the bus station.

Accidents and incidents

On 2 February 2015, an Arriva North East vehicle, which was operating service 28, collided with one of the bus station's south stands. There were no injuries, but significant damage was sustained to the bus station building, included damage to the roof and windows.
On 23 December 2021, an Arriva North East vehicle, which was out of service at the time, was shunted into the bus station's north stands by a Go North East coach. As above, there were no injuries, but damage was sustained to the bus station building, as well as damage to the railings, roof and windows.

Operators

Local bus services are provided by companies like Arriva North East, Stagecoach North East, and Go North East.
Stagecoach services 36, 37 and 38 combine to provide up to six buses per hour, serving Middlesbrough, Teesside Park, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees and Norton, with an hourly extension to University Hospital of North Tees, and three buses per hour continuing to Billingham, Greatham and Hartlepool. The company also operates frequent services to Acklam, Coulby Newham, James Cook University Hospital, Hemlington and Park End.
Arriva operate a number of local services, with destinations including Darlington, Guisborough, Ingleby Barwick, Redcar, Nunthorpe, Saltburn and Stokesley. The company also operates regional services X12 to Durham and Newcastle, and X93 to Guisborough, Whitby and Scarborough.
Go North East operate the X10 express service to Peterlee, Dalton Park and Newcastle, using a fleet of four high-specification double-deck Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC vehicles, branded in a gold and purple livery.

Services

The bus station has a total of 21 stands used for local bus services, with additional stands located on the upper floor for long-distance coach services operated by FlixBus and National Express.
, the stand allocation is:

Stand	Route	Destination
2	39	Park End via North Ormesby & Berwick Hills
3	62	Redcar via North Ormesby, Eston, Grangetown & Dormanstown
3	64	Grangetown via South Bank
3	64A	Normanby, [Redcar and Cleveland\|Normanby] via South Bank
3	64B	Grangetown via South Bank
3	101	Teesport via Berwick Hills, Ormesby, Normanby, Eston, South Bank
4	X2	New Marske express via Dormanstown, Redcar
4	X3	Lingdale express via Dormanstown, Redcar
4	X4	Whitby express via Dormanstown, Redcar
4	X4A	Whitby express via Dormanstown, Redcar
6	28	Guisborough via James Cook University Hospital
6	28A	Stokesley via James Cook University Hospital
6	28B	Stokesley via James Cook University Hospital
6	29	Marton via Linthorpe, Saltersgill, James Cook University Hospital
7	63	Redcar via Linthorpe, James Cook University Hospital
8	5	Easington via North Ormesby, Ormesby, Nunthorpe
8	5A	Guisborough via North Ormesby, Ormesby, Nunthorpe
9	9	Ormesby via North Ormesby, Berwick Hills & Park End
9	X93	Scarborough express via Ormesby, Guisborough, Scaling Dam, Aislaby, Whitby
9	X94	Scarborough express via Ormesby, Guisborough, Scaling Dam, Aislaby, Whitby
10	8	Netherfields via North Ormesby & Berwick Hills
12	16	Ingleby Barwick via Teesside Park & Thornaby
12	17	Ingleby Barwick via Linthorpe, Acklam & Thornaby
12	17A	Stockton-on-Tees via Linthorpe, Acklam & Thornaby
12	17B	Stockton-on-Tees via Linthorpe, Acklam & Thornaby
13	10	Coulby Newham via James Cook University Hospital
13	13	Coulby Newham via Linthorpe, Acklam, Stainton & Hemlington
13	13B	Acklam
13	14	Acklam
14	12	Coulby Newham via Linthorpe, Acklam & Hemlington
15	RP1	Middlesbrough College
16	36	Hartlepool via Teesside Park, Thornaby
16	36A	Hartlepool via Teesside Park
16	37	University Hospital of North Tees via Teesside Park, Thornaby
16	38	Norton via Teesside Park, Thornaby
17	831	Hawes DalesBus via Stockton-on-Tees
17	X66	Darlington express via Stockton-on-Tees
17	X67	Darlington express via Stockton-on-Tees
18	X12	Newcastle express via Teesside Park, Stockton-on-Tees
18	X22	Peterlee express via Stockton-on-Tees
19	59	University Hospital of North Tees via Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees
19	X10	Newcastle express via Stockton-on-Tees
20	1	High Throston via Haverton Hill, The Clarences, Seaton Carew
20	13	Newham Grange via Stockton-on-Tees
21	34	Low Grange via Billingham