(26 Jul 2022, 9:08 pm)Andreos1 wrote Bizarre use of branding. Initially with the 71 and then the 34.
Neither went close to Worm Hill or anywhere close to the source of the legend.

Can’t say I’m that au fait with the origins either but perhaps it should been have been used on the 2/2A Washington to Sunderland routes. At least it might have made some sense - and of course the 2/2A is another route that’s had more brand identities than it should have, Silver Arrows/Simplicity/Black Cats and perhaps the worst of all the incumbent ‘Sunderland District Berries’.