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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - JP6004 - 16 Aug 2019 (16 Aug 2019, 8:46 pm)S813 FVK Looks very smart. Although think will look better on new Streetdecks with glass staircase RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - streetdeckfan - 16 Aug 2019 (16 Aug 2019, 9:35 pm)JP6004 I personally think the design looks a bit better without the glass staircase. It just seems to flow a bit better IMO. I also don't like the placement of the fleet number right above the wheel arch, it look very out of place RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - JP6004 - 16 Aug 2019 (16 Aug 2019, 9:39 pm)streetdeckfan Yes does look odd RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - MrBoyt - 16 Aug 2019 (16 Aug 2019, 9:39 pm)streetdeckfan Overall looks good, imagine will be even better in daylight rather than under those harsh workshop lights too. But yes that fleet number looks awful, spacing's all wrong, it should be at the front under the cab window. Also ever since the logo was first revealed I've thought it looked more like '// lines' than X lines, because the other line that's meant to form the X is so thin... RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - streetdeckfan - 16 Aug 2019 (16 Aug 2019, 9:50 pm)JP6004 Hopefully it'll just be temporary! I wonder if they'll be adding bins to the X21s when they're doing the repaint, I've been bringing it up with them for literally years, and they put them on the Angel, but the X21 has a major problem with litter being scattered everywhere RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - BusLoverMum - 16 Aug 2019 (16 Aug 2019, 8:46 pm)S813 FVKthat was quick! RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - streetdeckfan - 17 Aug 2019 (16 Aug 2019, 11:38 pm)BusLoverMum I know, I honestly wasn't expecting them to start changing them over yet. I wonder when it'll be out so I can see it in person. I'm hoping it'll look better than in the photo RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - citaro5284 - 17 Aug 2019 Fleet number placement is no different to other of Ray's designs using similar colours (light blue on dark blue as the example below)
RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - big mac - 17 Aug 2019 As x21 is being rebranded from Castles Express to Xlines, will that mean the Castles day and weekly saver tickets will be abolished? RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - Stanleyone - 17 Aug 2019 (17 Aug 2019, 7:28 am)big mac As x21 is being rebranded from Castles Express to Xlines, will that mean the Castles day and weekly saver tickets will be abolished? I would doubt they will, rename maybe RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - S813 FVK - 17 Aug 2019 (16 Aug 2019, 9:13 pm)Andreos1 Completely agree here, though its another one of the Best Impressions standard features. Not too long ago we were discussing the reasons for the logo positional swap on the Cobalt B9s and, if I have remembered correctly, it had something to do with wanting to focus on the Go North East name just as much as the brand, if not more. The X-Lines brand seems to do the exact opposite. RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - L469 YVK - 17 Aug 2019 Seen the 21.25 X30 depart on Wednesday night, loads seemed good for a single decker. RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - GNE6312 - 17 Aug 2019 With the new buses coming will the 16A/X30 still interwork if so what will they be allocated Durham diamond branded streetlites or the new streetdeck? RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - Michael - 17 Aug 2019 Has anymore buses been fitted with the system to upgrade them to euro 6? Haven't heard anything else since the TEN B9's were completed. RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - Andreos1 - 17 Aug 2019 (17 Aug 2019, 11:23 am)S813 FVK Yeah, vaguely remember reading the comments at the time. Can't remember what was said at the time, but I do remember the emphasis on the larger logo. This brand seems to have blown that out of the window. Consistency? What consistency? Different sized logos, different coloured radiator grills. Anything else I've missed? RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - streetdeckfan - 17 Aug 2019 (17 Aug 2019, 5:54 pm)Andreos1 It seems like at the minute they don't know what they're doing with the branding. Even those with the same branding are seemingly coming back with small changes every time. Especially the new corporate ones. RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - Adrian - 17 Aug 2019 (17 Aug 2019, 5:54 pm)Andreos1 It's a strange one. I think the Xlines brand is a million times better than anything we've seen from GNE in a long time, but they should be loud and proud that it is a Go North East product. It seems to almost be a Stenning trademark to do so... RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - ne14ne1 - 17 Aug 2019 When the X-Lines livery was first revealed I thought it was a little odd that the gold was towards the front, and the colour unique to the route was at the back. I would have thought the colour unique to the route would be at the front, so as the bus approaches from a distance you have an idea if its the one you're after. Similarly if theres a line of buses on stand at a bus station, surely the unique colour at the front would be more useful than just being able to see a line of gold buses, right? And if we're being picky, how come the ToonTour's 2 sloping corporate lines point backwards like the X-Lines livery, rather than point forwards like the corporate & non X-Lines liveries? ;-) RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - streetdeckfan - 17 Aug 2019 (17 Aug 2019, 8:03 pm)ne14ne1 That was one of the great things about the past route branding, you could tell what bus it was by the colour. Especially in places like Durham Bus Station where you physically can't see the destination on the front of the bus because they're above the windows. That was of course until they had the bright idea of putting the north and southbound X21s right next to each other, especially when the driver has the wrong destination on the screen as they pull up. I've got on the X21 with Bishop on the display, only for the driver to change it once I've got on and it to go to Newcastle RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - August 2019 - TheGNESuspect2 - 18 Aug 2019 Is there a vector drawing of the X21 livery yet? The one currently doesn't show much! |