Go North East have put the branding names out for each route on the website under timetable

Peterlee Purples X6/X62/62/62A/201/204/204A/209/210/239

Sunderland District Silver 33

Sunderland District Blonde 38/38A/38C

47/47A Red Kite Ranger

Sunderland District Blue 61

East Durham Explorer 65

Country Ranger 8/8A/78/78A

Tyne Valley Ten has a slightly lighter green although the name has slightly changed when you click on it. Showing Tyne Valley 10

(02 Sep 2021, 10:52 am)Train8261 wrote Go North East have put the branding names out for each route on the website under timetable

Peterlee Purples X6/X62/62/62A/201/204/204A/209/210/239

Sunderland District Silver 33

Sunderland District Blonde 38/38A/38C

47/47A Red Kite Ranger

Sunderland District Blue 61

East Durham Explorer 65

Country Ranger 8/8A/78/78A

Tyne Valley Ten has a slightly lighter green although the name has slightly changed when you click on it. Showing Tyne Valley 10

I notice the 59 (Sunday only bus) has been changed to unbranded, however the 204 is still down as Peterlee Purples when the timetable was unbranded. I suspect it may actually be unbranded come Monday, the 204 goes no where near Peterlee, it would be pretty bizarre if it’s running around Durham all day with Peterlee on the side. For some reason GNE keep making the mistake that the 204 is in East Durham when realistically all the area it serves are Durham city. I’ve only just noticed the service changes article on the GNE site had the 204 in the East Durham section but yet forgot to include the 60 & 61 (who were listed under Sunderland but not East Durham) when really it should have had the 60/61 but no need for the 204.

EDIT: GNE website has now changed to show the 204 as unbranded.

(02 Sep 2021, 10:52 am)Train8261 wrote Go North East have put the branding names out for each route on the website under timetable

Peterlee Purples X6/X62/62/62A/201/204/204A/209/210/239

Sunderland District Silver 33

Sunderland District Blonde 38/38A/38C

47/47A Red Kite Ranger

Sunderland District Blue 61

East Durham Explorer 65

Country Ranger 8/8A/78/78A

Tyne Valley Ten has a slightly lighter green although the name has slightly changed when you click on it. Showing Tyne Valley 10

Red Kite Ranger looks pretty good so far

Where’s the black cats 39 vehicles going

Why not paint all the buses red, stick northern on the side then any bus can go on any route without causing confusion?

(03 Sep 2021, 2:37 pm)Rob44 wrote Why not paint all the buses red, stick northern on the side then any bus can go on any route without causing confusion?

Here here. Then hammered buses can get a rest week on a quieter route  etc.

(03 Sep 2021, 2:37 pm)Rob44 wrote Why not paint all the buses red, stick northern on the side then any bus can go on any route without causing confusion?

Entire fleet in Corp 2019 livery, yes please!
Spotters would have a meltdown though. The other 99% of the population however wouldn’t batter an eyelid or give two hoots.

(03 Sep 2021, 4:04 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Entire fleet in Corp 2019 livery, yes please!
Spotters would have a meltdown though. The other 99% of the population however wouldn’t batter an eyelid or give two hoots. 

The GP would actually probably be happy as it means they could regulate buses like Arriva do at Durham, Blyth and Jesmond so instead of curtailing services short at Gateshead which is impossible to do when you have 50 different brands you just swap buses on what route they're using their layovers. For example if a X46 is 10 minutes late coming into Consett but there's an X70 sitting there for 10 minutes you send out the X70 bus on the X46 and then by the time the X46 comes in it's on time for X70. Could easily be done at Consett, Sunderland, Gateshead and Newcastle for example.

I know the X7/X8/X9 and 308 quite often do it at Blyth as they both have a bit of a layover. Similar with pretty much everything at Haymarket, the 306, 52, 54, 43-45 all regularly swap around.