(06 Feb 2021, 7:15 pm)Storx wrote I'm surprised they've never somehow worked out how to make the 13 work with the Indigo services, having deckers on there seem overkill with some form of branding for the Durham local services (obviously interworking patterns would need to change).
The East Durham Indigo never really worked considering half of them never touch Peterlee so 'connections to Durham' makes no sense.
From what I can tell prior to the brand being revised the tagline tended to indicate frequent buses for connections to: either Hartlepool, Dalton Park, Teesside & beyond or Durham, Sunderland, Newcastle & beyond which seemed to indicate to connect with another bus somewhere to reach another destination such as Newcastle on X9/X10 or the 61 to Sunderland at Dalton Park, Durham is a slightly odd one as it doesn't really connect with anything so let's assume it's alluding to the fact some of the services go to Durham.
Photo of branding before the slight refresh/removal of vinyls especially on windows: https://flic.kr/p/GFTwTR
Think fitting the 13 into the IndiGo cycle could be tricky as the interworking on some of those especially the ones into Durham are fairly complex and to add anything else in would be getting close to maximum driving hours before a break has to be taken, think some is around a 4 hour cycle between departing and arriving back into Peterlee with the 13 taking an hour.