So their changing the branding again, bloody hell! Go North East love paint! (I admit I do love this style, I do feel the current style is very similar to Stagecoach swoops but with different colours)

I think Go North East spend more money changing their branding than Arriva spend on their whole fleet!
I must admit, I do quite like the current corporate livery, but if they're going to be keeping it largely the same, just changing it to be a bit more angular rather than I think it'll look quite nice.

I think new livery looks fab and really eye catching......I can understand how the new livery works on cobalt - blue and silver and how it would work on crusader red and silver but can't grasp how this would be applied to a brand with only one signature colour; red arrows or the 10 for example. Will they be still one colour but with the stripe or have the fleet livery blue at the rear with the brand colour at the front?

Same with the Angel and Castles Express
I like the fully branded buses as that's what I like about GNE, their buses stand out, unlike the Arriva ones which all look identical

Noticed they have also slightly updated the "Go" bit of the Go North East logo - for those with an eagle eye.

5296 getting a tow by alpha from gateshead bus stn to riverside ?

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Stands j k l & m out of use while they get it hooked up

That's what we're hoping to do!


No more repaints into the current fleet livery will be fitted with the taglines.

As already noted above; the corporate livery will be changing too, with all route brands being based off the new fleet livery which uses stripes instead of a swoosh. The new Cobalt gives a good view of how the fleet livery will look.

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Will this result in all recent vehicles to receive the current corporate livery going back to Saltmeadows for a partial repaint like they did back in 2016 when the corporate livery changed?

I assume one of Washington's remaining WheyAye50 Branded Omnicities will be the first to receive the new corporate livery or one of the Ex EYMS Presidents if they are all to be repainted.

Done a little mock up of what the new corporate livery may look like from the basis of the new cobalt clipper livery.

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Yeah I was wondering if the lower deck black window surrounds was unique to the cobalt clipper or not. Just the diagonal effect on the stairwell area might have to go the opposite way on the streetdecks with glass staircases. We'll just have to wait and see.
I always wished the contactless liveried spare streetdeck was put into corporate livery to see what it looks like on that particular model. The new corporate livery will suit it even better what with its angular styling.

Done a little mock up of what the new corporate livery may look like from the basis of the new cobalt clipper livery.

That actually looks very nice, very modern compared to the current corporate livery.

Yeah I was wondering if the lower deck black window surrounds was unique to the cobalt clipper or not. Just the diagonal effect on the stairwell area might have to go the opposite way on the streetdecks with glass staircases. We'll just have to wait and see.
I always wished the contactless liveried spare streetdeck was put into corporate livery to see what it looks like on that particular model. The new corporate livery will suit it even better what with its angular styling.

I actually like the contactless Streetdeck, that shade of blue look really nice on it, but I agree with the new corporate livery looking nice on it, especially with the styling of the front end

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5311 appears to be on loan to Saltmeadows - on my scholars today instead of 5485.

6103 is back out on the roads today according to the app. Should be on the 309 to Blyth right now in battle hill

Wonder if the Scania Omnicities currently allocated to Stanley (toonlink) will be repainted and the brand only seeing use on X70/X71. My calculations are only 4 omnicities needed at Consett, 3x X30 and 1 for am 16 dupe / 836 & X30pm.

Wonder if the Scania Omnicities currently allocated to Stanley (toonlink) will be repainted and the brand only seeing use on X70/X71. My calculations are only 4 omnicities needed at Consett, 3x X30 and 1 for am 16 dupe / 836 & X30pm.

Everybody on our end still believes the X30 + X32 is coming down.

9080 is on 53 today.

Everybody on our end still believes the X30 + X32 is coming down.

Some X30s whilst Consett does the X31s. As it is now with the routes inter working and light running buses from Stanley. The last X30 will run off an X31 19:00 from Newcastle, itself running off a 46 operated by a DD streetlite. All daytime X30s are planned to be run by Consett according to our Duties.

All 3 of the new Cobalt Clippers out today, think 6103 might have been took off though. Anyone got a pic of one?

All 3 of the new Cobalt Clippers out today, think 6103 might have been took off though. Anyone got a pic of one?

6103 worked the 14:34 310 New to N. Shields and back then onto a 309.

All 3 of the new Cobalt Clippers out today, think 6103 might have been took off though. Anyone got a pic of one?

Saw 2 of them but didn't get a pic.

Do you think they haven't had their Cobalt Clipper branding applied as GNE will wait until the majority are refurbished ready for a service relaunch?

Saw 2 of them but didn't get a pic.

Do you think they haven't had their Cobalt Clipper branding applied as GNE will wait until the majority are refurbished ready for a service relaunch?

That is exactly what is happening, when enough are ready they will hold a re-launch event.............

Yeah I got 6101 6102 and 6103 yesterday they look smart

Yeah I got 6101 6102 and 6103 yesterday they look smart

Shameless flickr plug.

6101 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/adammalark...ed-public/
6102 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/adammalark...ed-public/
6103 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/adammalark...ed-public/

Also noticed while sitting upstairs on 6101 their has been vents installed right at the back below the rear seats which were making a right racket and that it was quite sluggish, then I noticed when on 6103 sitting downstairs it sounded a bit different, sounded like the system the micro-hybrid streetlites use where it recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems.

Have the Cobalt B9's been fitted with anything while they've been away making them more fuel efficient etc, was racking my brains earlier as I can remember their was some funding grant to reduce emissions before the new year which meant a certain amount vehicles which went through Newcastle City Centre would be fitted whatever system the operator had chosen to be fitted.

Shameless flickr plug.

6101 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/adammalark...ed-public/
6102 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/adammalark...ed-public/
6103 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/adammalark...ed-public/

Also noticed while sitting upstairs on 6101 their has been vents installed right at the back below the rear seats which were making a right racket and that it was quite sluggish, then I noticed when on 6103 sitting downstairs it sounded a bit different, sounded like the system the micro-hybrid streetlites use where it recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems.

Have the Cobalt B9's been fitted with anything while they've been away making them more fuel efficient etc, was racking my brains earlier as I can remember their was some funding grant to reduce emissions before the new year which meant a certain amount vehicles which went through Newcastle City Centre would be fitted whatever system the operator had chosen to be fitted.

Martijn Gilbert Twitter also showed wireless chargers built into the tables

Martijn Gilbert Twitter also showed wireless chargers built into the tables

forgot about them as I never use them, added into to the caption on all photos.

forgot about them as I never use them, added into to the caption on all photos.

I use them if they there. Often use them in first class lounge in Central

For the Radio 1 big weekend on the 25th / 26th May, will GNE be adding extra buses on the X9/X10?

For the Radio 1 big weekend on the 25th / 26th May, will GNE be adding extra buses on the X9/X10?

The ticketting of Radio 1's Big Weekend is done by postcode and checking how this year's will work, 50% of the tickets are reserved for those living in the Middlesbrough area, 35% for Darlington, Hartlepool, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton councils, 15% is the rest of the UK. I can't see there being a huge need for Go North East to on the basis of that, Arriva on the other hand...

635 AD122 unusually on 516 service in South Shields.

New Consett depot officially opened today
https://twitter.com/MartijnGNE/status/11...1191771136

Also of note that 5452 is the first bus to carry the revised fleet livery.

New Consett depot officially opened today
https://twitter.com/MartijnGNE/status/11...1191771136

Also of note that 5452 is the first bus to carry the revised fleet livery.

Picked a good day.....very windy and frequent showers!!!

New Consett depot officially opened today
https://twitter.com/MartijnGNE/status/11...1191771136

Also of note that 5452 is the first bus to carry the revised fleet livery.

I must say, that updated livery looks bloody awful!

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New Consett depot officially opened today
https://twitter.com/MartijnGNE/status/11...1191771136

Also of note that 5452 is the first bus to carry the revised fleet livery.

Curse of the advert board striked again... just needed a few inches to the left 

I must say, that updated livery looks bloody awful!

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I think looks quite nice.....