(03 Jun 2021, 9:59 pm)Storx wrote Red Arrows - Doesn't mean anything was just an early brand I believe.Yea. Granted it would be better if East part out. It would be better.
Red Kite - Derwentside Red Kites
Toonlink - Links to the 'toon' from Winlaton and Prudhoe (originally on the Scotswood Road services / 604)
Castles Express - Links all the castles express: Newcastle, Durham and Bishop Auckland.
The two newest brands are up there with two of the most irrelevant and stupid brands imo especially when they've both had the same name for over 10 year now; it's more pointless name changes for the sake of it.
East Gateshead Rider is by the far out of the two and up there with imo the worst brands ever. If your going to brand any route about horses then it has to be the 12 with the Blaydon Races links. It's had a brand, people knew what the brand was and they've ditched it imo for no reason at all (Citylink). By all means modernise brands but renaming them every few years defeats the point in the first place.
East Gateshead Loop is just confusing and bizarre. Right you want to get the 'East Gateshead' Loop to Team Valley the place which is furthest West you can go in Gateshead.
I've said about the crap copy and pasting bland brands before though so won't moan about that again.
I won't say there crap. At least they got branding unlike some routes which will probably never get branding
To name a few
12/12A, 6/6A, 50/50A, 49/49A, 35,35A, 69, 9, 33/33A(Newcastle) 25, 28/28A, 34, M6/M7/M8, X22, X6, 5, 30/1/2, 33(Sunderland) 38,38A, 55
And all the others routes that are stuck with other branded buses on or 2016/2019 corp version
Tbh it's nice to see new branding and names coming up for GNE. My personal favourite is QuayCity. Mainly its unique from the rest
Why is it unique. Because its not like the other brands. The brands have a main colour at the back. Following by the Yellow and White stripes then the bigger main colour at the rest of the bus.
QuayCity manged to survive this type of branding. Its one of my favourite cause its the best one. If GNE had have followed the same way and had the same way most branding had. Then it wouldn't be my favourite