(15 Nov 2021, 5:18 pm)Drifter60 wrote Why shouldn’t the 19 be branded as Little Coasters? Just curious of the reasons. To me it makes as much sense as the X6/62 to Sunderland being branded as Peterlee Purples.
Initially it was because it was upgraded to larger capacity vehicles for social distancing, but the 19 has been taken out of the Little Coasters brand because there aren't enough buses branded any more (the OmniCitys displaced some of the branded Solo to Go North West) now the service has gone back to minibuses (fleet livery Solo). Of all the services, the 19 is arguably the one with the least relevance to the brand.
With the impending withdrawal of 698 - 701, there won't even be enough branded Solos to cover all the 11, 41 and 42/42A, so another one of these will end up predominantly being allocated fleet livery Solo over branded examples.