News & events

Thank you to everyone who entered the Newcastle Transport Scavenger Hunt during the Winter school holidays! Well done to the three winners of the competition, Lucy, Jehd and Frankie.  We had a blast receiving all of your entries and hearing about your adventures on board bus, light rail and ferry.  We especially loved this submission […]

Update: The Newcastle to Stockton ferry will return to a normal timetable on Wednesday 29 May after the maintenance work was completed ahead of schedule. We thank our customers for their patience while this work was carried out.   Buses will replace ferry services on Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 May, between 10am to 2pm, […]

Go NSW! With one win under their belt already, we’re excited to cheer on the Sky Blues in the Women’s State of Origin series right here in Newcastle!  Game two will be held at McDonald Jones Stadium on Thursday 6 June, with a 7.45pm kick off time.  Use Newcastle Transport to get to the game! […]

Join us on Saturday 25 May as we open the doors of Hamilton Depot to the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie community! This is your chance to find out more about what we do, chat to Bus Operators about their career and look back at public transport across the last 100 years. There will be something […]

From 5am on Saturday 18 May, buses replace light rail services due to planned maintenance. Bus routes 11 and 13 will also run along Hunter and King St. Normal services resume 5pm on Saturday 18 May. You can view the light rail bus replacement map here Plan ahead using the Trip Planner at transportnsw.info/trip

Newcastle Transport is planning a trip back in time with an open day and we want help from the local community to share their public transport memories. Over the last century, there have been a variety of ways to move people around the city and suburbs from boat, steam and electric tram, double decker buses […]

Newcastle Transport will run additional bus, ferry and light rail services on ANZAC Day to help Novocastrians travel to and from the dawn service at Nobbys Beach and other commemorative events on the day. From 3.28am, light rail services will run every 7.5 minutes and ferry services will operate every 20 minutes. There will be […]