(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.
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.
Since inception, X-lines routes were described as ‘interurban routes’ which were express/limited stop - akin to Arriva with their MAX brand.
The X66 doesn’t fit that criteria, but those services branded as X-lines all do.
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