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East Durham Explorer 65 re-brand - JP6004 - 24 Aug 2021
According to the ever reliable bustimes, 3942 is now silver and 5391 yellow/cream
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - Michael - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 2:24 pm)JP6004 According to the ever reliable bustimes, 3942 is now silver and 5391 yellow/cream
Interesting combo... new colours for the 65? - if true.
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - JP6004 - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 2:34 pm)Michael Interesting combo... new colours for the 65? - if true.Not a combo, just couldn't decide what the colour was showing as. Looks like a faded quaylink yellow
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - Keeiajs - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 2:24 pm)JP6004 According to the ever reliable bustimes, 3942 is now silver and 5391 yellow/cream5391-5394 have very uncomfortable seats.
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - Michael - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 2:37 pm)JP6004 Not a combo, just couldn't decide what the colour was showing as. Looks like a faded quaylink yellow
Ah right..... Hopefully Yellow to link in with Seaham beach.
Go North East - Recent Repaints - cbma06 - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 2:37 pm)JP6004 Not a combo, just couldn't decide what the colour was showing as. Looks like a faded quaylink yellow
Does it look like the old branded drifter cream colour?
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RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - Michael - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 3:21 pm)cbma06 Does it look like the old branded drifter cream colour?
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Oh god, that brand was horrendous, on horrendous buses!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Go_North_East_bus_594_Dennis_Dart_SLF_Marshall_Capital_T425_AGP_The_Drifter_livery_in_Newcastle_9_May_2009.jpg
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - Michael - 24 Aug 2021
Interesting colour combo but its a no from me
https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/1430193794952073221
65?
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - Andreos1 - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 3:44 pm)Michael Interesting colour combo but its a no from me
https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/1430193794952073221
65?
S&D Mocachino 65?
A mouthful in so many ways!
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - Adrian - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 3:44 pm)Michael Interesting colour combo but its a no from me
https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/1430193794952073221
65?
Looking forward to seeing this one branded. Not two colours I thought they'd use, so I'm interested to see what they've got up their sleeves for it.
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - ne14ne1 - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 3:44 pm)Michael Interesting colour combo but its a no from me
https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/1430193794952073221
65?
Keep the old fashioned brown and cream colours for heritage railways or Beamish.
It’s like the complete opposite of the trendy modern image they’re portraying of buses on the Xlines adverts.
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - JP6004 - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 6:20 pm)ne14ne1 Keep the old fashioned brown and cream colours for heritage railways or Beamish.Xlines is partially cream
It’s like the complete opposite of the trendy modern image they’re portraying of buses on the Xlines adverts.
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - mb134 - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 3:49 pm)Adrian Looking forward to seeing this one branded. Not two colours I thought they'd use, so I'm interested to see what they've got up their sleeves for it.
Definitely need to see the final branding for this.
I do have similar thoughts to other posters though, brown doesn't hit me as a 'modern' colour - I think it makes Lothian's fleet look older than it is, and I also don't particularly like the look of it on the interiors of the X-Lines Streetdecks for example.
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - JP6004 - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 6:36 pm)mb134 Definitely need to see the final branding for this.Interior isn't brown...its maroon I believe, same as Lothian. But imo Lothian have one of the nicest liveries in the country
I do have similar thoughts to other posters though, brown doesn't hit me as a 'modern' colour - I think it makes Lothian's fleet look older than it is, and I also don't particularly like the look of it on the interiors of the X-Lines Streetdecks for example.
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - mb134 - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 6:38 pm)JP6004 Interior isn't brown...its maroon I believe, same as Lothian. But imo Lothian have one of the nicest liveries in the countryWhich is a shade of brown...
Lothian have a nice livery, but it's old and hardly as enticing as something like X-Lines. Put it this way, you could paint something in a museum into Lothian colours and it wouldn't look out of place.
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - JP6004 - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 6:45 pm)mb134 Which is a shade of brown...A reddish brown
Lothian have a nice livery, but it's old and hardly as enticing as something like X-Lines. Put it this way, you could paint something in a museum into Lothian colours and it wouldn't look out of place.
Ne14ne1 - ne14ne1 - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 6:30 pm)JP6004 Xlines is partially cream
Well, ok smart arse, a smidge along the bottom where they didn’t want to paint it gold as the lower panels were more likely to be subject to chipping/damage or something like that.
RE: Ne14ne1 - JP6004 - 24 Aug 2021
(24 Aug 2021, 7:46 pm)ne14ne1 Well, ok smart arse, a smidge along the bottom where they didn’t want to paint it gold as the lower panels were more likely to be subject to chipping/damage or something like that.Yes the metallic gold paint will be more expensive to spray than normal cream. If memory serves correct, didnt the blue paint on the 50s L94 have silver/metallic sparkles running through it?
RE: Go North East - Recent Repaints - Malarkey - 01 Sep 2021
5391-5394 will be branded "East Durham Explorer" from a photo I have just seen, not going post link as only showing front end and we all know what a Streetlite looks like
Ne14ne1 - ne14ne1 - 02 Sep 2021
(01 Sep 2021, 10:05 pm)Malarkey 5391-5394 will be branded "East Durham Explorer" from a photo I have just seen, not going post link as only showing front end and we all know what a Streetlite looks like
People will still want to see: https://flic.kr/p/2mkHhP6
And it’s rear end: https://flic.kr/p/2mkGafK
More old fashioned colours it seems.
and 3942: https://flic.kr/p/2mkDx4E