(11 Mar 2019, 9:52 pm)Arcticrossy92 wrote So their changing the branding again, bloody hell! Go North East love paint! (I admit I do love this style, I do feel the current style is very similar to Stagecoach swoops but with different colours)

(12 Mar 2019, 8:29 am)JP6004 wrote I think new livery looks fab and really eye catching......I can understand how the new livery works on cobalt - blue and silver and how it would work on crusader red and silver but can't grasp how this would be applied to a brand with only one signature colour; red arrows or the 10 for example. Will they be still one colour but with the stripe or have the fleet livery blue at the rear with the brand colour at the front?

(12 Mar 2019, 4:53 am)Dan wrote That's what we're hoping to do!


No more repaints into the current fleet livery will be fitted with the taglines.

As already noted above; the corporate livery will be changing too, with all route brands being based off the new fleet livery which uses stripes instead of a swoosh. The new Cobalt gives a good view of how the fleet livery will look.

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(12 Mar 2019, 4:00 pm)Malarkey wrote Done a little mock up of what the new corporate livery may look like from the basis of the new cobalt clipper livery.

(12 Mar 2019, 7:42 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Yeah I was wondering if the lower deck black window surrounds was unique to the cobalt clipper or not. Just the diagonal effect on the stairwell area might have to go the opposite way on the streetdecks with glass staircases. We'll just have to wait and see.
I always wished the contactless liveried spare streetdeck was put into corporate livery to see what it looks like on that particular model. The new corporate livery will suit it even better what with its angular styling.

(13 Mar 2019, 8:58 am)Stanleyone wrote Wonder if the Scania Omnicities currently allocated to Stanley (toonlink) will be repainted and the brand only seeing use on X70/X71. My calculations are only 4 omnicities needed at Consett, 3x X30 and 1 for am 16 dupe / 836 & X30pm.

(13 Mar 2019, 9:08 am)Jamie M wrote Everybody on our end still believes the X30 + X32 is coming down.

(13 Mar 2019, 5:10 pm)JM03 wrote All 3 of the new Cobalt Clippers out today, think 6103 might have been took off though. Anyone got a pic of one?

(13 Mar 2019, 5:10 pm)JM03 wrote All 3 of the new Cobalt Clippers out today, think 6103 might have been took off though. Anyone got a pic of one?

(13 Mar 2019, 6:52 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Saw 2 of them but didn't get a pic.

Do you think they haven't had their Cobalt Clipper branding applied as GNE will wait until the majority are refurbished ready for a service relaunch?

(14 Mar 2019, 7:33 am)JACK6081 wrote Yeah I got 6101 6102 and 6103 yesterday they look smart

(14 Mar 2019, 8:33 pm)Malarkey wrote Shameless flickr plug.

6101 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/adammalarkey/33503965738/in/dateposted-public/
6102 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/adammalarkey/47327224452/in/dateposted-public/
6103 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/adammalarkey/33503964398/in/dateposted-public/

Also noticed while sitting upstairs on 6101 their has been vents installed right at the back below the rear seats which were making a right racket and that it was quite sluggish, then I noticed when on 6103 sitting downstairs it sounded a bit different, sounded like the system the micro-hybrid streetlites use where it recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems.

Have the Cobalt B9's been fitted with anything while they've been away making them more fuel efficient etc, was racking my brains earlier as I can remember their was some funding grant to reduce emissions before the new year which meant a certain amount vehicles which went through Newcastle City Centre would be fitted whatever system the operator had chosen to be fitted.

(14 Mar 2019, 8:44 pm)JP6004 wrote Martijn Gilbert Twitter also showed wireless chargers built into the tables

(14 Mar 2019, 8:55 pm)Malarkey wrote forgot about them as I never use them, added into to the caption on all photos.

(14 Mar 2019, 10:19 pm)L469 YVK wrote For the Radio 1 big weekend on the 25th / 26th May, will GNE be adding extra buses on the X9/X10?

(15 Mar 2019, 12:07 pm)S813 FVK wrote New Consett depot officially opened today
https://twitter.com/MartijnGNE/status/1106518051191771136

Also of note that 5452 is the first bus to carry the revised fleet livery.

(15 Mar 2019, 12:07 pm)S813 FVK wrote New Consett depot officially opened today
https://twitter.com/MartijnGNE/status/1106518051191771136

Also of note that 5452 is the first bus to carry the revised fleet livery.

(15 Mar 2019, 12:07 pm)S813 FVK wrote New Consett depot officially opened today
https://twitter.com/MartijnGNE/status/1106518051191771136

Also of note that 5452 is the first bus to carry the revised fleet livery.

(15 Mar 2019, 1:00 pm)streetdeckfan wrote I must say, that updated livery looks bloody awful!

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