Wright Solar Fusion (Go North East Metro) in Blue & Silver (1:76 scale)
- Go North East provides 72 million passenger journeys each year & employs around 2, 100 staff. Go North East is the region’s leading public transport operator & won the prestigious UK Bus Industry Award for Marketing in 2008. The company has also been accredited ‘ Investors in People’ status for excellence in developing, training & communicating with employees.
The origins of the company can be traced back to 1897, when British Electron Traction acquired a major stake in Gateshead & District, Jarrow & District, & Tynemouth Electric Traction companies from their respective local councils. In the mid 1980s during the National Bus Company privatisation, Northern was sold to its management & reformed as Go-Ahead Northern which then became the founding company of Go North East.