Middlesbrough Bus Station serves the town of Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire, England. It is located around 1/4 mi 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 the 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

Most local bus services are operated by Arriva North East and Stagecoach North East, with Go North East also serving the bus station. 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 detinations 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 toPeterlee, 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, Megabus and National Express. , the stand allocation is: