(02 May 2014, 6:46 am)Dan wrote 4911 will be going into corporate livery as far as I know, thereby removing another "brand" (if you want to call it a brand) from the network. Promotional liveries have really had their day it seems, and Go North East have gradually removed these from the fleet - quite often by directly withdrawing the vehicles (in the case of the DAFs). You'll notice that a number of 'pointless' brands are being removed from the network and these are being turned into corporate livery services (such as "South Tyne" 5, "Pulse" services 67/69, etc) - I believe this is done in mind to increase the overall quality of brands in the network.
5274 is getting freshened up, yes. It retained its "Red Kite" red base livery which is slightly different to the shade of red of Go North East's corporate livery. The others (5247-49) were all repainted in late 2012 if memory serves, so won't be due for repaint just yet.
I agree, it wasn't really a brand, was just advertising, it's the same as 4847 for Beamish, which will probables go when the 128 ends.
Was wondering why 5274 was getting re-painted again, i didn't even know it was a different shade of red.
Glad they are getting rid of pointless brands, which aren't needed... i wonder if all the current brands which are due new buses this year will be branded something related to the area's it serves on it's route... and of course if the bus receives cascaded buses, they are branded appropriately... i:e if the Prince Bishops gets the citaro's its branded as Prince Bishops again
If not branded... don't brand it! haha
Thanks for the info