(19 Aug 2019, 4:22 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Are Red Arrows, Quaylink and Tydedale Links/Tynedale Express getting new liveries/identities? Red Arrows getting new buses would make a new livery/brand name make sense. Quaylink and Tynedale Links should be changed to have the corporate stripes on for consistency and Tynedale Express will be Xlines eventually. I'd like to see the 74 changed to Xlines X74. Has Toonlink been axed?
What is express about the 74 route? it takes in every village on the way and does a loop of Darras on top of this it takes nearly an hour and a half to get to Newcastle from Hexham - something which you can do in roughly 45 mins on the x85 (or about 20 in a car).
It is a council subsidised route that would otherwise not be commercially viable - so why would GNE want to sink a load more cash into a route that has probably two journeys a day with anything approaching reasonable numbers?