(20 Jan 2024, 10:29 pm)Storx wrote and what's an 'X Lines route'. We know what it means but to the general public it's just another brand with the other 50 brands GNE have. Go to Consett, it might aswell be just the whole network.Brands should just be
They're not express, they're not routes you drive, they're not nicer buses on certain routes. Thankfully other operators who GNE copied saw how pointless it was and scrapped it.
It's one of the worst branding exercises ever going and blatently failed as every single route has had substantial cuts or is now funded by the tax payer and replaced brands with recognition ie Red Kite and Red Arrows, in particular.
The most ironic part of it, the most express route in the network (X66) isn't part of it.
NorthEastXpress
- X10, X21, X30/X31 (see below about X30/X31)
CityLink
- 21, 56
Coast Road (unsure what brand could be)
- 306, 307, 308, 309
CityRider (current Voltra routes)
- 53, 54, Q3
Everything else corporate!
And to further aid the NorthEastXpress idea.....a single fleet type (E400MMC) operating from Riverside with following changes
- X30/X31 moved to Riverside. X31 extended to Lanchester in place of the 6. Remote reliefs at Eldon Square or Ellison Road.
- 12 re-interworked with the 6 and moved to Consett. 6 curtailed at Stanley.
20x E400MMC
- 4x - X10
- 8x - X21
- 4x - X30/X31
- 4x spare