(04 Aug 2021, 5:26 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Violet?! Dear god.
Will this get the non-enthusiasts talking buses too?

God help the poor buggers who have to use it.
“This is the Sunderland District Violet 2A(?) service to Sunderland”.

(04 Aug 2021, 5:26 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Violet?! Dear god.
Will this get the non-enthusiasts talking buses too?

God help the poor buggers who have to use it.
“This is the Sunderland District Violet 2A(?) service to Sunderland”.

(04 Aug 2021, 5:32 pm)streetdeckfan wrote I do think it's fitting that the Violet brand was put on the Citaros given that Hyacinth's sister owns a Mercedes, granted the Citaros are far from new!

(04 Aug 2021, 4:22 pm)peter wrote Not sure if it's just me but I can't see these photos...do you have links to flickr or something instead?

(04 Aug 2021, 5:39 pm)ne14ne1 wrote You joke. That’s probably the theory behind it.

(04 Aug 2021, 5:45 pm)ThomasBooth123 wrote https://flic.kr/p/2mfiZXW

(04 Aug 2021, 5:42 am)54APhotography wrote The last of Deptford's Solo's re-liveried from X-Lines to Graphite returned to active service yesterday. The short lived X-Lines X6/20 is no more!

677 NK16BXV | Optare Solo SR M925 677 travels along the A690… | Flickr

(06 Aug 2021, 6:50 pm)busmanT wrote Repainted 3 times in 5 years!

(06 Aug 2021, 6:56 pm)Dan wrote You’ll be after a job at the Northern Echo next!


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(07 Aug 2021, 6:06 pm)Train8261 wrote Rest of the Sunderland District branding has been revealed and what buses

https://twitter.com/MartijnGNE/status/1424066740024131585?s=19

(07 Aug 2021, 6:21 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote So after berries, cherry, violet…they ran out of things to describe colours and just started to put actual colour names and an image of something rarely that colour (silver badger, blue bird… actually Sunderland District bluebird with a blue bird on it might have actually made some degree of sense compared to this).  Good to see the extra two brands added though which appear from the route map to be for 33 & 38.  So Sunderland and Distrcit covers everything in Sunderland except X-lines X20 and Prince Bishops and Country Ranger and Cityrider, oh and Drifer (yet almost identical route 61 IS part of SD brand), not forgetting corporate liveried 9 (or yet to be revealed yellow brand?) and Peterlee branded X6 and 62 ...  Remind me the point of the SD brand family again?

(07 Aug 2021, 6:06 pm)Train8261 wrote Rest of the Sunderland District branding has been revealed and what buses

https://twitter.com/MartijnGNE/status/1424066740024131585?s=19

(07 Aug 2021, 7:04 pm)Rapidsnap wrote The 5/9 will be standard livery without a doubt due to it interworking.

(07 Aug 2021, 7:07 pm)Michael wrote Hopefully not, it'll then be the odd one out... it could be branded, even if its not "Sunderland District".

(07 Aug 2021, 7:11 pm)ASX_Terranova wrote Jarrow Arrow???

(07 Aug 2021, 7:13 pm)cbma06 wrote On that Sunderland route map , it has service 9 in yellow colour


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(07 Aug 2021, 7:11 pm)ASX_Terranova wrote Jarrow Arrow???

(07 Aug 2021, 7:43 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote That would break the rule of brand names needing to be largely meaningless.

More likely "Go North East yellow" with a picture of a pig on it or something.

(14 Aug 2021, 11:29 am)cbma06 wrote How come Gateshead can use all different colours of paint for the rear half of the bus , but Sunderland gets stuck with the red rear on the bus, I thought different areas will have there own colour at rear , looks like it’s just Sunderland area?


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(29 Aug 2021, 8:14 am)Keeiajs wrote I have noticed with several of the recent repaints, Cherry/Berries/Violet that at the front where it says the name e.g. Sunderland District Berries behind that should be the colour of the rear. If you don't understand what I am saying look @ a Connections 4, and then look at a voilet.

(29 Aug 2021, 8:17 am)ne14ne1 wrote Consistency in detail is not a strong point, but maybe that’s due to not using a single design agency.