(21 Feb 2020, 10:39 am)streetdeckfan wrote Obviously from that perspective there needs to be a reason, but I was responding from more of the perspective of the non-enthusiast that you were mentioning.
I do agree with your point about the timing of the re-paints, although with the StreetDeck delay I'd imagine there could be some spare slots as vehicles may not be able to be off the road long enough for a repaint!

If they’d come up with a new Northern Coaching livery and brand, I could see the point, if they’d have based it on an old coaching livery from the past, I could see the point in that as well.

But I see little point in using these old names, a different one on each vehicle, especially ones like Charterplan which has no connection to the north east. A passenger will just think a load of different firms have turned up to do the rail replacement or the contact work.

It’s strange when at the same time they are dropping many quirky Geordie brands on the bus network replacing them with either corporate vehicles or much more generic brands that could be used anywhere.