(07 Apr 2016, 6:49 pm)Dans_bus_photos Does anyone know what the PVR's are for the Tynedale Links services? Do they all still interwork?

(07 Apr 2016, 6:27 pm)BusLoverMum I was thinking, the other day, how dated the Fast Cats livery looks, now. It's so garish compared with most of the newer ones.

(07 Apr 2016, 6:55 pm)Kuyoyo I think the PVR is:

74: 1
185/681/X81: 1
680: 1
682: 1
683: 1
686/687: 2(?)

(07 Apr 2016, 6:57 pm)Michael Hopefully this time, they design it so it doesn't look like its called.... "Cats Fast"!.

(07 Apr 2016, 6:57 pm)Michael Hopefully this time, they design it so it doesn't look like its called.... "Cats Fast"!.

(07 Apr 2016, 7:02 pm)JP6004 Can't say I've ever read it like that. You read from left to right not right to left 

(07 Apr 2016, 7:08 pm)park5354 Scrap the branding on X35/X36, and use red GNE buses.  Services that only run every 30 mins on Mon-Sat daytimes don't warrant branding.  Only services that should be branded are those that run all day and on Sunday.

Exceptions could be made for services that provide competition, ie 18, X84/85 and services that provide a network, ie Indigo or Tynedale Links.

Lambton Worm & Fast Cats should be placed in the same bin as Kingfisher & The Pulse.

(07 Apr 2016, 7:09 pm)Dan Ah - but you also read top to bottom!

I personally think it looks like Cats Fast too.

(07 Apr 2016, 7:11 pm)JP6004 So X7 Wear Tees Xpress branding should be scrapped then??

(07 Apr 2016, 7:19 pm)park5354 No, as it provides competition to Arriva services, as well compliments TTX.

(07 Apr 2016, 7:23 pm)JP6004 Then surely X35 provides competition between Sunderland Peterlee and hartlepool. I do agree that X36 doesn't warrant branding due to the low frequency and the fact it stops around 6ish.

Wasnt there something along the lines of if a route/network has a PVR less than 4 then they won't get branding...

(07 Apr 2016, 7:23 pm)JP6004 Then surely X35 provides competition between Sunderland Peterlee and hartlepool. I do agree that X36 doesn't warrant branding due to the low frequency and the fact it stops around 6ish.

Wasnt there something along the lines of if a route/network has a PVR less than 4 then they won't get branding...

(07 Apr 2016, 7:33 pm)park5354 When the Pulse was scrapped,  i think it was said that only services with frequency of at least 20 mins or a high pvr would be branded.

Red GNE scania solars could be used on 33/39/X35 using Black Cats brand, that was destined for Cadets.  This would allow Doxford services to be consistant.

(07 Apr 2016, 6:50 pm)biglugs@yahoo.com Where would be a good place to get rides on more indigos at north Tyneside without coming into wallsend that many times

(07 Apr 2016, 7:38 pm)Tom Could get the 80 to Middle Engine Lane next to Smyths and get the 40 into Wallsend from opposite the Jolly Bowman so that is only once into Wallsend. Not much other way you could do it really unless you just got the 80 back to North Shields.

(07 Apr 2016, 7:43 pm)South Tyne Lad Its quite hard to avoid Wallsend on the North Tyne Indigos, Because that's the Hub of them! I could think of a route if it involved changing in Wallsend twice.

(07 Apr 2016, 6:55 pm)Kuyoyo I think the PVR is:

74: 1
185/681/X81: 1
680: 1
682: 1
683: 1
686/687: 2(?)
688: 1