(27 Jun 2022, 12:31 am)Drifter60 wrote The Voyager livery is one of the most confusing brands, at least others brand identities are listed on the website/services page, whereas Voyager is not mentioned anywhere and Google doesn’t really bring anything up apart from Flickr links and GNE’s enthusiast area.

Go North East hasn’t really launched it yet, clearly due to the lack of available driver resource. What limited Voyager activity there has been undertaken by non-driving staff. This includes hires each evening for the past few Fridays to Durham Cricket, and also two emergency rail replacements to Edinburgh from Newcastle last week.

I don’t think it’s very confusing either - it does (or will do) what it says on the tin, a contract bus and coach hire fleet. It is on the website as one of the names wrapped up in the wider Northern Coaching brand, but the Voyager buses have recently had these logos removed in favour of “from Go North East” which suggests they are looking for Voyager itself to be the leading brand now, not Northern Coaching (where it was becoming a name within a name within a name!)
https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/northern-coaching

Once fleet availability settles down, these buses will be in use on schools only and in between schools, after schools, or on weekends, be available for “extra-curricular activities”. This will include planned and emergency rail replacement, private hires, corporate hires, and similar.

They are all equipped with tachographs and seatbelts - with a variety of different vehicle sizes on offer (Solo, coach, double-deck) to meet the customers’ needs.


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