(26 Jun 2021, 12:59 pm)mb134 wrote For routes which are mainly city work I much prefer the idea of a corporate livery with sub route branding - essentially a tube style branding. You can still then run everything under the "Sunderland District" overall brand, but then it's simply a coloured section incorporated into the livery with 2/2A slapped on. 

In this example, who is realistically going to be saying "are you getting the Berries tonight?". Compare that to meaningful brands such as the Angel, where that statement would make much more sense. 

This is an example of what I'm meaning: 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/41987105@N...ateposted/

Yeah know what you mean there, I don't mind that idea either actually. First Aberdeen has done that for years as I know they used to be 'The Red Line' and stuff and always thought it was a good idea as it was easy to tell them apart. Always think colours are a better way to do it as you remember them easier especially for people who never use them. I know people always refer as the Angel as the 'green buses' which works. I quite like First Berkshire livery in terms of that - https://www.oxford-chiltern-bus-page.co....20Bras.jpg

Mind I do like the Trent Barton approach which uses brand names and get's away with the numbers altogether and uses colours / name to seperate each of the routes with a common design through them - https://www.trentbarton.co.uk/resources/...-fleet.png.

Even the interior uses the colour of the brand on it's headrests which I quite like and makes them quite unique for each route - https://www.flickr.com/photos/66523711@N06/37481568850/