(26 Mar 2023, 10:53 pm)Drifter60 wrote As for ‘Northern’, I was in my late teens when GNE just started slapping ‘Northern’ on the side of all the spare red buses so that name just reminds me and a few people my age of rattling old SPDs and various other older spare vehicles. So I’m not sure that name is great either now!
Same here, seeing 'Northern' on a bus gives me flashbacks to the expired red deckers.
Plus, it just doesn't sound as good as good as 'Go North East' imo.
I guess it's just one of those nostalgia things. Those rancid old buses we had on our scholars services (2010 ish, Yellow Bus branded) are somehow liked by people on here!
In 15 years time when the StreetDecks are old and decrepit and used on scholars, I wonder if I'd be on the other side of the fence!