Go North East - Recent Repaints
Go North East - Recent Repaints
(10 Aug 2020, 8:15 am)JP6004 Fleet update states Consett solos due for repaint over summer. Hope they keep venture branding.....although if PM solos are anything to by, look out for the Little Diamonds
(10 Aug 2020, 9:23 am)Andreos1 Sounds like some retro jazz band, full of kids playing kazoos!I genuinely quite like the idea of having 'Little' brands for the minibuses.
(10 Aug 2020, 9:23 am)Andreos1 Sounds like some retro jazz band, full of kids playing kazoos!I genuinely quite like the idea of having 'Little' brands for the minibuses.
(10 Aug 2020, 10:09 am)streetdeckfan I genuinely quite like the idea of having 'Little' brands for the minibuses.Dont forget Little Connections yes it is a lot better than the uninspiring Cobalt & Coast. Saying that they could just end up in corporate yet
In fact, I'm probably alone in thinking this, but Little Coasters is one of my favourite route brands they've done in a while!
I can just imagine having Little Diamonds, Little Angels, Little Drifter.
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(10 Aug 2020, 10:09 am)streetdeckfan I genuinely quite like the idea of having 'Little' brands for the minibuses.Dont forget Little Connections yes it is a lot better than the uninspiring Cobalt & Coast. Saying that they could just end up in corporate yet
In fact, I'm probably alone in thinking this, but Little Coasters is one of my favourite route brands they've done in a while!
I can just imagine having Little Diamonds, Little Angels, Little Drifter.
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(10 Aug 2020, 10:43 am)JP6004 Dont forget Little Connections yes it is a lot better than the uninspiring Cobalt & Coast. Saying that they could just end up in corporate yet
(10 Aug 2020, 10:44 am)streetdeckfan Actually, thinking about it, Little Connections would probably be a good overall brand for the minibuses2nd repaint for these in 7 years. Sure they'll get round to the 4 citaros and some point
(10 Aug 2020, 10:09 am)streetdeckfan I genuinely quite like the idea of having 'Little' brands for the minibuses.Or the Kittens
In fact, I'm probably alone in thinking this, but Little Coasters is one of my favourite route brands they've done in a while!
I can just imagine having Little Diamonds, Little Angels, Little Drifter.
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(10 Aug 2020, 10:09 am)streetdeckfan I genuinely quite like the idea of having 'Little' brands for the minibuses.Or the Kittens
In fact, I'm probably alone in thinking this, but Little Coasters is one of my favourite route brands they've done in a while!
I can just imagine having Little Diamonds, Little Angels, Little Drifter.
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(10 Aug 2020, 10:44 am)streetdeckfan Actually, thinking about it, Little Connections would probably be a good overall brand for the minibuses2nd repaint for these in 7 years. Sure they'll get round to the 4 citaros and some point
(10 Aug 2020, 10:09 am)streetdeckfan I genuinely quite like the idea of having 'Little' brands for the minibuses.Or the Kittens
In fact, I'm probably alone in thinking this, but Little Coasters is one of my favourite route brands they've done in a while!
I can just imagine having Little Diamonds, Little Angels, Little Drifter.
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(10 Aug 2020, 10:09 am)streetdeckfan I genuinely quite like the idea of having 'Little' brands for the minibuses.Or the Kittens
In fact, I'm probably alone in thinking this, but Little Coasters is one of my favourite route brands they've done in a while!
I can just imagine having Little Diamonds, Little Angels, Little Drifter.
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(10 Aug 2020, 10:47 am)JP6004 2nd repaint for these in 7 years. Sure they'll get round to the 4 citaros and some point
Or the Kittens
Or the Kittens
(10 Aug 2020, 10:56 am)JP6004 So did I but it's not past the 9pm watershed
That probably explains why quite a few have missing branding and are plain yellow at the back now . Some just have the top half of the venture name on the windows and are missing any other branding. Must admit their 1st repaint hasn't weathered well at all
(10 Aug 2020, 10:09 am)streetdeckfan I genuinely quite like the idea of having 'Little' brands for the minibuses.
In fact, I'm probably alone in thinking this, but Little Coasters is one of my favourite route brands they've done in a while!
I can just imagine having Little Diamonds, Little Angels, Little Drifter.
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(10 Aug 2020, 10:09 am)streetdeckfan I genuinely quite like the idea of having 'Little' brands for the minibuses.
In fact, I'm probably alone in thinking this, but Little Coasters is one of my favourite route brands they've done in a while!
I can just imagine having Little Diamonds, Little Angels, Little Drifter.
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Personally if I was GNE I'd get arid of the Little Coasters; it's got no history, hasn't brought any benefits at all (which a brand should do) infact it's done the complete opposite; degraded buses, frequency cuts, services gone altogether (42) and the loss of GNE night services and that's before bringing the point it's totally irrelevant to the 19 and 42/42A.
I'd call that a failure and certainly wouldn't want to replicate it, keep Venture thanks which is the opposite.
(10 Aug 2020, 4:51 pm)Storx Personally if I was GNE I'd get arid of the Little Coasters; it's got no history, hasn't brought any benefits at all (which a brand should do) infact it's done the complete opposite; degraded buses, frequency cuts, services gone altogether (42) and the loss of GNE night services and that's before bringing the point it's totally irrelevant to the 19 and 42/42A.
I'd call that a failure and certainly wouldn't want to replicate it, keep Venture thanks which is the opposite.
(10 Aug 2020, 4:51 pm)Storx Personally if I was GNE I'd get arid of the Little Coasters; it's got no history, hasn't brought any benefits at all (which a brand should do) infact it's done the complete opposite; degraded buses, frequency cuts, services gone altogether (42) and the loss of GNE night services and that's before bringing the point it's totally irrelevant to the 19 and 42/42A.
I'd call that a failure and certainly wouldn't want to replicate it, keep Venture thanks which is the opposite.
(10 Aug 2020, 4:54 pm)streetdeckfan The brand hasn't done any of that, if they were driving around in corporate livery services would still have been cut and contracts lost.
(10 Aug 2020, 4:54 pm)streetdeckfan The brand hasn't done any of that, if they were driving around in corporate livery services would still have been cut and contracts lost.
(10 Aug 2020, 5:17 pm)Storx That's debateable as the brand only came around since they took the Indigo buses off for the X-Lines network and sent the utter crap that is 698 - 705 which could've easily reduced customers and also resulted in removed WiFi, removed NSA's etc or a downgrade from Omnicities on the 11.
Either way, the brand has failed if your going to brand something you do it to improve profit / increase customers otherwise it's a waste of time. Little Coasters done the opposite. There's no point rebranding Venture to something random like Little Diamonds if your not making improvements it's just a pointless exercise. When you release a new brand you need to have something behind it otherwise it means nothing and just confuses people (where's my Venture bus gone).
(10 Aug 2020, 5:17 pm)Storx That's debateable as the brand only came around since they took the Indigo buses off for the X-Lines network and sent the utter crap that is 698 - 705 which could've easily reduced customers and also resulted in removed WiFi, removed NSA's etc or a downgrade from Omnicities on the 11.
Either way, the brand has failed if your going to brand something you do it to improve profit / increase customers otherwise it's a waste of time. Little Coasters done the opposite. There's no point rebranding Venture to something random like Little Diamonds if your not making improvements it's just a pointless exercise. When you release a new brand you need to have something behind it otherwise it means nothing and just confuses people (where's my Venture bus gone).
(10 Aug 2020, 5:59 pm)Stanleyone 5413 has returned to Consett in fleet livery.
645 is in the paint shop at Saltmeadows https://flic.kr/p/2jvHKqX
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(10 Aug 2020, 5:59 pm)Stanleyone 5413 has returned to Consett in fleet livery.
(13 Aug 2020, 1:54 am)TEN 6083 645 is in the paint shop at Saltmeadows https://flic.kr/p/2jvHKqXLooks smart
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(13 Aug 2020, 1:54 am)TEN 6083 645 is in the paint shop at Saltmeadows https://flic.kr/p/2jvHKqXLooks smart
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Just passed solo 645 on consett bypass, so no pics, but basically the front is all yellow and the rear maroon in the corporate style. Gone are the cartoon like Venture lettering in favour of the early 1970's lower case Venture lettering.
Looks really smart and a vast improvement
Pics of the revised Venture livery tweeted by Martijn
https://twitter.com/MartijnGNE/status/12...5774512128