(09 Aug 2023, 3:02 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Have to wonder if this name is being slapped on purely to save them from painting the buses into Corporate livery, which would be much smarter and certainly more “easy to identify” [as Go North East] than the “distinctive purple colour”, which is what GNE are claiming.
Surely if these vehicles had already been in Corporate livery then GNE wouldn’t have bothered creating another unnecessary brand, as a I’d really hoped we’d passed that era.
Why keep flogging a dead horse, right?
Wonder if it’s included in the NSAs too, so the passengers have to keep hearing “This is the Rocket Three Five Four service to…”.
Hopefully we’ve moved on from that now.
While I think the current haphazard allocations on various branded routes with incorrect brands being more common than correct ones on some have firmly killed off the arguments in favour of brand recognition etc, I think GNE are being pretty sensible here in avoiding the need to repaint the batch and instead just applying new vinyls which must be a lot more economical than a full repaint, and will look a lot better than random debranded plain base colours dotting around.