(09 Jun 2015, 4:58 pm)Diamond One wrote The old brand has been too plain since the stagecoach designlines were on then I thought Go North East would spruce it up but the green and yellow design looks like a rype banana colour the purple goes well with yellow though could have been worse could have been pink and Yellow I don't think that design will live down well with people

(09 Jun 2015, 5:49 pm)Robert wrote The question is how long will it take for a Q1/Q2 versa to appear on the Q3 vice versa? 

(09 Jun 2015, 5:49 pm)Robert wrote The question is how long will it take for a Q1/Q2 versa to appear on the Q3 vice versa? 

(09 Jun 2015, 5:49 pm)Robert wrote The question is how long will it take for a Q1/Q2 versa to appear on the Q3 vice versa? 

(09 Jun 2015, 5:57 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote is the Q3 going to be a different brand or will it be allocated red B10s or other red buses

(09 Jun 2015, 5:58 pm)Robert wrote The Q3 is the green variant of the livery. A great park logo can just be seen. The purple variant will be for the Q1/Q2.

(09 Jun 2015, 6:02 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote Ah ok I see now, I never seen the great park logo on the green versa.

(09 Jun 2015, 6:32 pm)Robert wrote Yeah the logo is quite faint lol. The purple has probably been chosen on purpose due to the Orbit being purple at the moment.

(09 Jun 2015, 8:00 am)Michael wrote Seems a X21 broke down this morning...


Can you tell me please was there a problem with the x21that should have gone from the Chester le St market at 7.56?

Go North East
unfortunately that vehicle suffered a technical fault in Durham and had to be removed from passenger service. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience caused.

(09 Jun 2015, 7:13 pm)pdiddy wrote To go along with 6034 which broke down at Gatesheed around 11ish

(09 Jun 2015, 2:58 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote They should add 8328/9 to the brand and that will provide the extra bus for you
one question, Wouldn't  all the 10 Reg and the 61 Reg ones from the orbit be too many buses? if so they should transfer some 10 Reg ones to the East Durham or North Tyne Links.....
or has the East Durham been confirmed in getting some brand new solos? 

(09 Jun 2015, 7:19 pm)pdiddy wrote East Durham getting Solos (dark pink)

(09 Jun 2015, 7:22 pm)Michael wrote Let's hope the brand looks decent then.... 

(09 Jun 2015, 7:25 pm)pdiddy wrote Wonder what it's gonna be called... 

Remember pink solos years ago... wasn't that called the pink panther!

(09 Jun 2015, 7:25 pm)pdiddy wrote Wonder what it's gonna be called... 

Remember pink solos years ago... wasn't that called the pink panther!

(09 Jun 2015, 2:33 pm)Tommy_1581 wrote Wow. They do look good.

(09 Jun 2015, 7:19 pm)pdiddy wrote East Durham getting Solos (dark pink)

(09 Jun 2015, 7:25 pm)pdiddy wrote Wonder what it's gonna be called... 

Remember pink solos years ago... wasn't that called the pink panther!

(09 Jun 2015, 7:28 pm)Michael wrote I do hope they stick to "East Durham".


Although i think the current brand works well on yellow..

(09 Jun 2015, 7:33 pm)Malarkey wrote Not liking the rear part of the livery at all, what is it even supposed to represent, looks like someone has thought why not whack a splodge of purple & green on the rear with a few random shapes.

(09 Jun 2015, 7:41 pm)citaro5284 wrote I just love it when new liveries are shown.....the amount of art critics and professionals that are based in the North East is just unbelievable.

(09 Jun 2015, 7:41 pm)citaro5284 wrote I just love it when new liveries are shown.....the amount of art critics and professionals that are based in the North East is just unbelievable 

(09 Jun 2015, 7:41 pm)citaro5284 wrote I just love it when new liveries are shown.....the amount of art critics and professionals that are based in the North East is just unbelievable 

(09 Jun 2015, 7:33 pm)Malarkey wrote Not liking the rear part of the livery at all, what is it even supposed to represent, looks like someone has thought why not whack a splodge of purple & green on the rear with a few random shapes.

(09 Jun 2015, 7:52 pm)Malarkey wrote To be honest you cant criticise me to much with what I have said as I have been of high praise as of late for recent new liveries, but my question to you citaro5284, is not an aim of GNE to gather constructive feedback and opinions on vehicles and there respective brandings, so that the company can improve them in the future, surely if that isnt the case then GNE would just go for a simple corporate image which is recogisable but bland like Stagecoachs corporate livery.

(09 Jun 2015, 2:30 pm)Andreos1 wrote As has been pointed out already, I dread to think what the reliability will be like.
The 51/52 struggle without even going over the river - with regular reports of missing services.


I am intrigued to see what passengers will do when heading to Newcastle from Gateshead and vice versa.
Will they use the one bus, or transfer onto a potentially quicker one?

(09 Jun 2015, 8:08 pm)big mac wrote What will the route frequency be?  Currently the Q1 is every 10 minutes and the 51/52 every 15 minutes.  Is the current Q1 section of the route therefore going to decrease in frequency?

(09 Jun 2015, 2:30 pm)Andreos1 wrote As has been pointed out already, I dread to think what the reliability will be like.
The 51/52 struggle without even going over the river - with regular reports of missing services.


I am intrigued to see what passengers will do when heading to Newcastle from Gateshead and vice versa.
Will they use the one bus, or transfer onto a potentially quicker one?

(09 Jun 2015, 8:10 pm)Dan wrote Yes, I would suggest that this should be expected.

After all, the company is taking on the service commercially, when it has always been operated on a secured basis until now (or rather, the end of July).

Increased layover and/or running time should increase reliability - not only of the Orbit routes, but the QuayLink routes too.

(09 Jun 2015, 8:10 pm)Dan wrote Yes, I would suggest that this should be expected.

After all, the company is taking on the service commercially, when it has always been operated on a secured basis until now (or rather, the end of July).

Increased layover and/or running time should increase reliability - not only of the Orbit routes, but the QuayLink routes too.