(03 Jun 2021, 10:36 pm)Rapidsnap wrote To be honest, I would class Western Gateshead as areas like Blaydon, Winlaton, Whickham, Ryton, Rowlands Gill etc, basically West of the A1 between Team Valley and where it crosses the Tyne, whilst Eastern Gateshead I felt was areas East of Old Durham Road, the areas like Team Valley, Low Fell, Gateshead I felt were central Gateshead whilst South of the A1 at the Angel, basically Birtley and Barley Mow was Southern Gateshead, I believe they don't seem themselves as part of Gateshead and more County Durham due to the area having a DH postcode.
Yeah that's fair like, see personally I wouldn't class any of them as Gateshead at all but I guess it depends whether we're talking about the council area or the town.
To me Gateshead ends at the A1 on the West side including the little part of Dunston Hill and Lobley Hill with all of the East side being Gateshead with it being split down Durham Road / Sheriff Hill.
Anything West of Durham Road / Prince Concert Road being West Gateshead, anything East of Sheriff Hill / the Flyover being East Gateshead, the small bit in the middle being central.
Who knows, anyone on here from Whickham and the likes do you class yourself as being Gateshead or Whickham?
(03 Jun 2021, 10:38 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote Yea. Granted it would be better if East part out. It would be better.
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
See personally I'd rather they kept corporate for some routes and then only have the principal routes branded. Branding shouldn't change name wise though imo. Trent Barton nail branding in my eyes and it's worked that well that they've ditched the route number for numerous services alltogether and every bus is a different colour so you can see ooo the green bus that's mine. It doesn't work here (bar the Angel) and everyone just calls them by them numbers because they change them every week so what's the point. Cobalt Clipper was one of the worst for that as there's loads on the Coast who used to refer to it as that so they change the branding now it's just the 309 and Cobalt and Coast is a mouthful and doesn't flow. It's the same with Citylink vs East Gateshead Rider. One flows the other is a mouthful.
https://www.trentbarton.co.uk/network-map - Trent Barton's network for reference; think you'll like their branding aswell better.