(13 Dec 2021, 11:26 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Versas might be too big. Corporate livery or repainted into Tynedale Links? Possibly a new brand?
In exchange for the 74 going to Stagecoach. Makes sense for Stagecoach to run the 74 and GNE run something else with more demand.
Not really, GNE running 74 connects with other stuff ran by GNE in Hexham at least whereas Stagecoach would stick out like a sore thumb. Companies can't just swap routes around between either really and doubt Stagecoach would give up a more frequent commercial service to a rival company just to get an infrequent tendered route where the smallest thing they have to allocate is E200s.
Anything surrounding brands for the Tynedale Links services will be held off until its know if GNE retain the contracts next year.