Even for the golden jubilee, Stagecoach refused to paint a bus into the Stagecoach golden jubilee livery (which is effectively similar to the interconnect livery in Lincolnshire).
And even if there is an special repaint it's only once in a blue moon or for contractual reasons (Quaylink or Teesside Flex comes to mind).
Honestly I bet the management had a fit when they told the Hybrids were coming in a green version of the standard livery, and probably had another and even bigger fit when told their 40 gas buses will be in a completely non-standard special livery promoting that they are ran on gas.
In the North East this is a list of non-standard local service bus liveries (not route branding or adverts) done by Stagecoach since 2003....
Metrocentre Shuttle (Blue Version) - https://flic.kr/p/2m1CLbo
Metrocentre Shuttle (Rainbow front) - https://flic.kr/p/2m1A1b2
X34 Pink Charity - https://flic.kr/p/2mZZr3d
X34 Light Blue - https://flic.kr/p/cmeWwQ (Photo by John Carter as none of mine are on Flickr yet)
X77/X78 Black - https://flic.kr/p/2n1h2hN
South Shields Corpy - https://flic.kr/p/2k5grVD
Sunderland Corpy - https://flic.kr/p/2mZw6sb
Gas Bus Livery - https://flic.kr/p/25d816x
Hybrid Swoops - https://flic.kr/p/bvaNXx
Seasider - https://flic.kr/p/2iqqRXG
City Sightseeing (Franchise) - https://flic.kr/p/2iYHDUL (yes the service was running during a snowy December)
Quaylink (Contract) - https://flic.kr/p/21BPnDL
AD122 (Contract) - https://flic.kr/p/GWaDFu
Flex (Contract) - https://flic.kr/p/2jeGRJq
U-Call (Contract) - https://flic.kr/p/213QNJF
Ikea (Contract / Advert) - https://flic.kr/p/jak1mG
White - https://flic.kr/p/2iqtxg5
Mosaic (Livery Launch Vehicle) - https://flic.kr/p/2itfaMJ
To sum it up, I think they would only normally have non-standard liveries (Hybrid, Gas, Mosaic) if they are forced to have them because of Head Office. It just feels to me that they don't really go out of the way to do a non-standard livery.
RE: Stagecoach North East - Recent Repaints
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