According to the ever reliable bustimes, 3942 is now silver and 5391 yellow/cream

(24 Aug 2021, 2:24 pm)JP6004 wrote According to the ever reliable bustimes, 3942 is now silver and 5391 yellow/cream

Interesting combo... new colours for the 65? - if true.

(24 Aug 2021, 2:34 pm)Michael wrote Interesting combo... new colours for the 65? - if true.

Not a combo, just couldn't decide what the colour was showing as. Looks like a faded quaylink yellow

(24 Aug 2021, 2:24 pm)JP6004 wrote According to the ever reliable bustimes, 3942 is now silver and 5391 yellow/cream

5391-5394 have very uncomfortable seats.

(24 Aug 2021, 2:37 pm)JP6004 wrote Not a combo, just couldn't decide what the colour was showing as. Looks like a faded quaylink yellow

Ah right..... Hopefully Yellow to link in with Seaham beach.

(24 Aug 2021, 2:37 pm)JP6004 wrote Not a combo, just couldn't decide what the colour was showing as. Looks like a faded quaylink yellow

Does it look like the old branded drifter cream colour?


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(24 Aug 2021, 3:21 pm)cbma06 wrote Does it look like the old branded drifter cream colour?


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Oh god, that brand was horrendous, on horrendous buses!


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Interesting colour combo but its a no from me

https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/1430193794952073221


65?

(24 Aug 2021, 3:44 pm)Michael wrote Interesting colour combo but its a no from me

https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/1430193794952073221


65?

S&D Mocachino 65?
A mouthful in so many ways!

(24 Aug 2021, 3:44 pm)Michael wrote Interesting colour combo but its a no from me

https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/1430193794952073221


65?

Looking forward to seeing this one branded. Not two colours I thought they'd use, so I'm interested to see what they've got up their sleeves for it.

(24 Aug 2021, 3:44 pm)Michael wrote Interesting colour combo but its a no from me

https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/1430193794952073221


65?

Keep the old fashioned brown and cream colours for heritage railways or Beamish.
It’s like the complete opposite of the trendy modern image they’re portraying of buses on the Xlines adverts.

(24 Aug 2021, 6:20 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Keep the old fashioned brown and cream colours for heritage railways or Beamish.
It’s like the complete opposite of the trendy modern image they’re portraying of buses on the Xlines adverts.

Xlines is partially cream

(24 Aug 2021, 3:49 pm)Adrian wrote Looking forward to seeing this one branded. Not two colours I thought they'd use, so I'm interested to see what they've got up their sleeves for it.

Definitely need to see the final branding for this.

I do have similar thoughts to other posters though, brown doesn't hit me as a 'modern' colour - I think it makes Lothian's fleet look older than it is, and I also don't particularly like the look of it on the interiors of the X-Lines Streetdecks for example.

(24 Aug 2021, 6:36 pm)mb134 wrote Definitely need to see the final branding for this.

I do have similar thoughts to other posters though, brown doesn't hit me as a 'modern' colour - I think it makes Lothian's fleet look older than it is, and I also don't particularly like the look of it on the interiors of the X-Lines Streetdecks for example.

Interior isn't brown...its maroon I believe, same as Lothian. But imo Lothian have one of the nicest liveries in the country

(24 Aug 2021, 6:38 pm)JP6004 wrote Interior isn't brown...its maroon I believe, same as Lothian. But imo Lothian have one of the nicest liveries in the country

Which is a shade of brown...

Lothian have a nice livery, but it's old and hardly as enticing as something like X-Lines. Put it this way, you could paint something in a museum into Lothian colours and it wouldn't look out of place.

(24 Aug 2021, 6:45 pm)mb134 wrote Which is a shade of brown...

Lothian have a nice livery, but it's old and hardly as enticing as something like X-Lines. Put it this way, you could paint something in a museum into Lothian colours and it wouldn't look out of place.

A reddish brown

(24 Aug 2021, 6:30 pm)JP6004 wrote Xlines is partially cream

Well, ok smart arse, a smidge along the bottom where they didn’t want to paint it gold as the lower panels were more likely to be subject to chipping/damage or something like that. 

(24 Aug 2021, 7:46 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Well, ok smart arse, a smidge along the bottom where they didn’t want to paint it gold as the lower panels were more likely to be subject to chipping/damage or something like that. 

Yes the metallic gold paint will be more expensive to spray than normal cream. If memory serves correct, didnt the blue paint on the 50s L94 have silver/metallic sparkles running through it?

5391-5394 will be branded "East Durham Explorer" from a photo I have just seen, not going post link as only showing front end and we all know what a Streetlite looks like

(01 Sep 2021, 10:05 pm)Malarkey wrote 5391-5394 will be branded "East Durham Explorer" from a photo I have just seen, not going post link as only showing front end and we all know what a Streetlite looks like

People will still want to see: https://flic.kr/p/2mkHhP6

And it’s rear end: https://flic.kr/p/2mkGafK
More old fashioned colours it seems.

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and 3942: https://flic.kr/p/2mkDx4E

That colour doesnt work well on a streetlite

(02 Sep 2021, 6:39 am)ne14ne1 wrote People will still want to see: https://flic.kr/p/2mkHhP6

And it’s rear end: https://flic.kr/p/2mkGafK
More old fashioned colours it seems.

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and 3942:  https://flic.kr/p/2mkDx4E

Leftover paint from EYMS?

(02 Sep 2021, 7:47 am)V514DFT wrote That colour doesnt work well on a streetlite

I wonder if it's the same as this one Dan posted on Twitter



https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/14301...21/photo/1

(02 Sep 2021, 8:51 am)Ambassador wrote Leftover paint from EYMS?

Haha, I did think “urgh, looks rather East Yorkshirey”.

(02 Sep 2021, 8:55 am)streetdeckfan wrote I wonder if it's the same as this one Dan posted on Twitter



https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/14301...21/photo/1

I must say 5391-5394 are the most uncomfortable GNE buses I have been on.

(02 Sep 2021, 8:55 am)streetdeckfan wrote I wonder if it's the same as this one Dan posted on Twitter



https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/14301...21/photo/1

It is, coffee and cream. perhaps the ranger will be branded with leisure activities..

(02 Sep 2021, 8:55 am)streetdeckfan wrote I wonder if it's the same as this one Dan posted on Twitter



https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/14301...21/photo/1

It is. Now branded (image courtesy of Michael Mccalla):

(02 Sep 2021, 12:54 pm)Dan wrote It is. Now branded (image courtesy of Michael Mccalla):

Definitely looks better when the colours aren't all completely off!

Looks nice tbh

All this new branding it's very Peter Huntley meets Reading Buses-esque

At what point does it reach the days of old when we're sitting there thinking....ummm Stanley Shuttle