(24 Feb 2020, 3:29 pm)Jimmi wrote Think a few buses have recieved promos on the front windscreens over the last few days, saw a few buses going round with a yellow vinyl advertising something under the destination screen on Saturday

(24 Feb 2020, 8:46 pm)TEN 6083 wrote If anyone missed the monthly live Go North East Q&A broadcast on Northern Group Enthusiasts Club Facebook page earlier here is the next Northern Coaching livery to be revealed, 7098 will carry this livery.


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(24 Feb 2020, 9:44 pm)Dan wrote No roundup from streetdeckfan yet - I am surprised!



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(25 Feb 2020, 3:52 pm)TEN 6083 wrote 5280 now in corporate livery

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(25 Feb 2020, 5:36 pm)streetdeckfan wrote First time I've been on one of the B5Hs with the NSA working (6065 in particular) and there's very little gap between "Next Stop" and the stop name, at least compared to the other services with NSA.
Is that a quirk with the particular system on board or is that the way it's programmed?

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(25 Feb 2020, 5:56 pm)GNE6312 wrote Anyone know when the open day at Riverside as that is a must do this year for me.

(25 Feb 2020, 5:56 pm)GNE6312 wrote Anyone know when the open day at Riverside as that is a must do this year for me.

(25 Feb 2020, 9:31 pm)Wybus wrote Two scholars services don't seem to track, does anyone know what depot runs these:

141N (Newbiggin Hall - Walbottle Campus)
820N (Low Simonside - Hebburn St Joseph's RC)

(25 Feb 2020, 10:06 pm)Arcticrossy92 wrote Bus on fire down Shotley bridge, not sure what it as of yet.

(26 Feb 2020, 7:58 am)Stanleyone wrote No fire. Facebook is a wonderful place of misinformation.

(26 Feb 2020, 7:12 pm)Storx wrote I mentioned this is a different post before but I'm not sure. What was the first branded livery which was full bus livery like they are now (not a sticker or variation of the corporate livery like the Saltwell's used to be).

Was it the Centrelink (Gradient), Route 19, Pink Panthers (Durham), Angel (Omnicity), Coaster (Cream / Green) or Washington Street Shuttle as I know they all came out at the same time and didn't follow the house style which came in after with the swoops just couldn't remember which was first. If I had to guess I'd say the Route 19 though which imo is still one of the best.

Or was there something else beforehand?

(26 Feb 2020, 7:38 pm)N1cholas wrote Im sure some of the earliest branding appeared in sunderland on the black cats and doxford clipper MPDs not sure if anything was earlier than these

(26 Feb 2020, 7:52 pm)Michael wrote Branding started in 2006, when GNE completely changed the Sunderland routes, but before that happened i'm sure the Centrelink, The Loop , X20/X50 was one of the first set of brands, followed by Route 19, and then Black Cats, Doxford Clipper, Magic Roundabout, FAB 56, Red Arrows.


Loop: https://www.flickr.com/photos/83823112@N03/34218564006/

(26 Feb 2020, 9:26 pm)BeachBoy99 wrote I believe "The Highwayman" was a very early brand as well, which came to fruition in mid-2004.

(26 Feb 2020, 10:58 pm)James101 wrote As I remember it (way open to correction), I think it was the 19 was the pioneer non-corporate full-livery modern route branding, with the shields ferry 333 done around the same time. I think the Big Bang of brands and liveries under the late Peter Huntley was in 2006 and coincided with the delivery of the Omnicities and Citatos a few months later. The only brand as we know it to be today before then was perhaps the Quaylink Q1 & Q2 with Stagecoach’s Designlines and it’s predecessor the Quays Link 60? Unless you count the Metrocentre circulars which were in their own block colour livery per bus when it was a much more intensive service.

The first fully commercial branding venture in recent times was the X10 ‘Expand your horizons’ followed by the first incarnation of the X2 Red Arrows with Plaxton Expressliners which was in place for a couple of years before the upgrade and expansion of the brand with Citaros in 2007.

(26 Feb 2020, 11:50 pm)Storx wrote Yeah that's what I thought aswell tbh.

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/42444602/04208-route-19-lft-travelnortheastcouk - Just found that when looking for something else which suggests it came around early 2006. It's also crazy how much it's died over the years. Every 15 minutes all day and every 7.5 minutes at peak time

Then after it was all the liveries based off the corporate livery which only ever got onto a few omnicities I believe (maybe wrong). https://www.flickr.com/photos/83823112@N03/28347192875/ - that one.

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(25 Feb 2020, 5:42 pm)Dan wrote Yes, old kit. It's very inconsistent - even on different buses with the same media programmed.