Since we are at the last month of this year (December) lets see what people have loved on what GNE has brought to us this year!
Some are not yet branded or currently getting worked on or are in service
All New branded buses this year:
X-Lines X9/10 - Elites
X-Lines Yellow - Volvo B5LH
X-Lines - Mercedes-Benz Citaro
S&D Graphite - Solo SR
S&D Cherry - Citaro
S&D Violet - Citaro
S&D Berries - Versa
S&D Blonde - SR
S&D Silver - SR
S&D Blue - Citaro
Red Kite Ranger - B9TL
Tyne Valley 10 - B9TL
Voyager - Scania Omnidekka
Voyager - Solo SR
Voyager - B9TL
Voyager - Elite
Voyager - Plaxton President
Connections 4 - Citaro
The Vaccination Shuttles - Versa and Citaros
Little Pinks - Solo SR
Metrocentre Shuttle X66 - B7RLE's
Metrocentre Shuttle X22 - B7TL's
Coaster - Streetlite
Orbit - Streetlite
CountryRanger - Streetlite
Peterlee Purples - Solo SR
East Durham Explorer - Streetlite
Prince Bishops - Streetlite
Durham Diamond - B5LH
Tynemouth 100 - B9TL
Seasider X11 - Levante Coach
East Gateshead Rider - B9TL
East Gateshead Loop - B9TL
CityRider 56 - B9TL

(01 Dec 2021, 11:32 am)KingSlayerRBLX wrote Since we are at the last month of this year (December) lets see what people have loved on what GNE has brought to us this year!
Some are not yet branded or currently getting worked on or are in service
All New branded buses this year:
X-Lines X9/10 - Elites
X-Lines Yellow - Volvo B5LH
X-Lines - Mercedes-Benz Citaro
S&D Graphite - Solo SR
S&D Cherry - Citaro
S&D Violet - Citaro
S&D Berries - Versa
S&D Blonde - SR
S&D Silver - SR
S&D Blue - Citaro
Red Kite Ranger - B9TL
Tyne Valley 10 - B9TL
Voyager - Scania Omnidekka
Voyager - Solo SR
Voyager - B9TL
Voyager - Elite
Voyager - Plaxton President
Connections 4 - Citaro
The Vaccination Shuttles - Versa and Citaros
Little Pinks - Solo SR
Metrocentre Shuttle X66 - B7RLE's
Metrocentre Shuttle X22 - B7TL's
Coaster - Streetlite
Orbit - Streetlite
CountryRanger - Streetlite
Peterlee Purples - Solo SR
East Durham Explorer - Streetlite
Prince Bishops - Streetlite
Durham Diamond - B5LH
Tynemouth 100 - B9TL
Seasider X11 - Levante Coach
East Gateshead Rider - B9TL
East Gateshead Loop - B9TL
CityRider 56 - B9TL

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Coaster

(01 Dec 2021, 11:32 am)KingSlayerRBLX wrote Since we are at the last month of this year (December) lets see what people have loved on what GNE has brought to us this year!
Some are not yet branded or currently getting worked on or are in service
All New branded buses this year:
X-Lines X9/10 - Elites
X-Lines Yellow - Volvo B5LH
X-Lines - Mercedes-Benz Citaro
S&D Graphite - Solo SR
S&D Cherry - Citaro
S&D Violet - Citaro
S&D Berries - Versa
S&D Blonde - SR
S&D Silver - SR
S&D Blue - Citaro
Red Kite Ranger - B9TL
Tyne Valley 10 - B9TL
Voyager - Scania Omnidekka
Voyager - Solo SR
Voyager - B9TL
Voyager - Elite
Voyager - Plaxton President
Connections 4 - Citaro
The Vaccination Shuttles - Versa and Citaros
Little Pinks - Solo SR
Metrocentre Shuttle X66 - B7RLE's
Metrocentre Shuttle X22 - B7TL's
Coaster - Streetlite
Orbit - Streetlite
CountryRanger - Streetlite
Peterlee Purples - Solo SR
East Durham Explorer - Streetlite
Prince Bishops - Streetlite
Durham Diamond - B5LH
Tynemouth 100 - B9TL
Seasider X11 - Levante Coach
East Gateshead Rider - B9TL
East Gateshead Loop - B9TL
CityRider 56 - B9TL

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(01 Dec 2021, 11:32 am)KingSlayerRBLX wrote Since we are at the last month of this year (December) lets see what people have loved on what GNE has brought to us this year!
Some are not yet branded or currently getting worked on or are in service
All New branded buses this year:
X-Lines X9/10 - Elites
X-Lines Yellow - Volvo B5LH
X-Lines - Mercedes-Benz Citaro
S&D Graphite - Solo SR
S&D Cherry - Citaro
S&D Violet - Citaro
S&D Berries - Versa
S&D Blonde - SR
S&D Silver - SR
S&D Blue - Citaro
Red Kite Ranger - B9TL
Tyne Valley 10 - B9TL
Voyager - Scania Omnidekka
Voyager - Solo SR
Voyager - B9TL
Voyager - Elite
Voyager - Plaxton President
Connections 4 - Citaro
The Vaccination Shuttles - Versa and Citaros
Little Pinks - Solo SR
Metrocentre Shuttle X66 - B7RLE's
Metrocentre Shuttle X22 - B7TL's
Coaster - Streetlite
Orbit - Streetlite
CountryRanger - Streetlite
Peterlee Purples - Solo SR
East Durham Explorer - Streetlite
Prince Bishops - Streetlite
Durham Diamond - B5LH
Tynemouth 100 - B9TL
Seasider X11 - Levante Coach
East Gateshead Rider - B9TL
East Gateshead Loop - B9TL
CityRider 56 - B9TL

What Was the Best One this Year?
You can have a Top 5 if you want

East Durham Explorer

(01 Dec 2021, 11:32 am)KingSlayerRBLX wrote Since we are at the last month of this year (December) lets see what people have loved on what GNE has brought to us this year!
Some are not yet branded or currently getting worked on or are in service
All New branded buses this year:
X-Lines X9/10 - Elites
X-Lines Yellow - Volvo B5LH
X-Lines - Mercedes-Benz Citaro
S&D Graphite - Solo SR
S&D Cherry - Citaro
S&D Violet - Citaro
S&D Berries - Versa
S&D Blonde - SR
S&D Silver - SR
S&D Blue - Citaro
Red Kite Ranger - B9TL
Tyne Valley 10 - B9TL
Voyager - Scania Omnidekka
Voyager - Solo SR
Voyager - B9TL
Voyager - Elite
Voyager - Plaxton President
Connections 4 - Citaro
The Vaccination Shuttles - Versa and Citaros
Little Pinks - Solo SR
Metrocentre Shuttle X66 - B7RLE's
Metrocentre Shuttle X22 - B7TL's
Coaster - Streetlite
Orbit - Streetlite
CountryRanger - Streetlite
Peterlee Purples - Solo SR
East Durham Explorer - Streetlite
Prince Bishops - Streetlite
Durham Diamond - B5LH
Tynemouth 100 - B9TL
Seasider X11 - Levante Coach
East Gateshead Rider - B9TL
East Gateshead Loop - B9TL
CityRider 56 - B9TL

What Was the Best One this Year?
You can have a Top 5 if you want

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(01 Dec 2021, 11:32 am)KingSlayerRBLX wrote Since we are at the last month of this year (December) lets see what people have loved on what GNE has brought to us this year!
Some are not yet branded or currently getting worked on or are in service
All New branded buses this year:
X-Lines X9/10 - Elites
X-Lines Yellow - Volvo B5LH
X-Lines - Mercedes-Benz Citaro
S&D Graphite - Solo SR
S&D Cherry - Citaro
S&D Violet - Citaro
S&D Berries - Versa
S&D Blonde - SR
S&D Silver - SR
S&D Blue - Citaro
Red Kite Ranger - B9TL
Tyne Valley 10 - B9TL
Voyager - Scania Omnidekka
Voyager - Solo SR
Voyager - B9TL
Voyager - Elite
Voyager - Plaxton President
Connections 4 - Citaro
The Vaccination Shuttles - Versa and Citaros
Little Pinks - Solo SR
Metrocentre Shuttle X66 - B7RLE's
Metrocentre Shuttle X22 - B7TL's
Coaster - Streetlite
Orbit - Streetlite
CountryRanger - Streetlite
Peterlee Purples - Solo SR
East Durham Explorer - Streetlite
Prince Bishops - Streetlite
Durham Diamond - B5LH
Tynemouth 100 - B9TL
Seasider X11 - Levante Coach
East Gateshead Rider - B9TL
East Gateshead Loop - B9TL
CityRider 56 - B9TL

What Was the Best One this Year?
You can have a Top 5 if you want

Red Kite Ranger

I think my favourite rebrand was when Starburst reverted back to being Opal Fruits for a short period last year.

(02 Dec 2021, 11:20 am)MurdnunoC wrote I think my favourite rebrand was when Starburst reverted back to being Opal Fruits for a short period last year.

Doesn't count. Needs to be 2021.

I haven't a clue if the list above is correct, nor the inclination to check, but if that illustrates just the rebrands alone my head hurts.

(02 Dec 2021, 1:58 pm)Chris 1 wrote I haven't a clue if the list above is correct, nor the inclination to check, but if that illustrates just the rebrands alone my head hurts.

There's been way to many this year

(02 Dec 2021, 3:28 pm)Train8261 wrote There's been way to many this year

6 of them either haven't been done or were done in 2020. I imagine they also playing catch up from last year too. A lot of them are only single vehicles too

(02 Dec 2021, 3:44 pm)JP6004 wrote 6 of them either haven't been done or were done in 2020. I imagine they also playing catch up from last year too. A lot of them are only single vehicles too

Yea but still. There's been way to may repaint this year

(02 Dec 2021, 5:04 pm)Train8261 wrote Yea but still. There's been way to may repaint this year

Probs because of 2020 + the backlog.

I also quite like the Durham Diamond

I'd say QuayCity. It's a unique branding. Different to other brands and fits the Versas very well

(03 Dec 2021, 9:23 am)Train8261 wrote I'd say QuayCity. It's a unique branding. Different to other brands and fits the Versas very well

Its absolutely awful!

Xlines, in any variety, I'd say are head and shoulders above the rest. Though the new Orbit and East Durham Explorer are probably the best ones I've seen so far.

(01 Dec 2021, 11:32 am)KingSlayerRBLX wrote Since we are at the last month of this year (December) lets see what people have loved on what GNE has brought to us this year!
Some are not yet branded or currently getting worked on or are in service
All New branded buses this year:
X-Lines X9/10 - Elites
X-Lines Yellow - Volvo B5LH
X-Lines - Mercedes-Benz Citaro
S&D Graphite - Solo SR
S&D Cherry - Citaro
S&D Violet - Citaro
S&D Berries - Versa
S&D Blonde - SR
S&D Silver - SR
S&D Blue - Citaro
Red Kite Ranger - B9TL
Tyne Valley 10 - B9TL
Voyager - Scania Omnidekka
Voyager - Solo SR
Voyager - B9TL
Voyager - Elite
Voyager - Plaxton President
Connections 4 - Citaro
The Vaccination Shuttles - Versa and Citaros
Little Pinks - Solo SR
Metrocentre Shuttle X66 - B7RLE's
Metrocentre Shuttle X22 - B7TL's
Coaster - Streetlite
Orbit - Streetlite
CountryRanger - Streetlite
Peterlee Purples - Solo SR
East Durham Explorer - Streetlite
Prince Bishops - Streetlite
Durham Diamond - B5LH
Tynemouth 100 - B9TL
Seasider X11 - Levante Coach
East Gateshead Rider - B9TL
East Gateshead Loop - B9TL
CityRider 56 - B9TL

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Hands down the "Tynemouth 100" Heritage Livery on 6101 for me followed up by the "Voyager" Liveries.

I would like to see on "Northern Coaching" side of things more "Retro" Liveries such as "Wear Buses" rather than just sticking to one in particular.

(04 Dec 2021, 8:22 pm)Adrian wrote Its absolutely awful!

Xlines, in any variety, I'd say are head and shoulders above the rest. Though the new Orbit and East Durham Explorer are probably the best ones I've seen so far.

How's QuayCity awful. I'd say in my opinion Orbit is the worst

(04 Dec 2021, 9:56 pm)Train8261 wrote How's QuayCity awful. I'd say in my opinion Orbit is the worst

Why is Orbit the worst?

My favourites are

east durham explorer 
Connections 4
Or Connecter Shuttle or Sunderland Shuttle.

The grey spare livery is the one that stands out for me. 
Maybe it's because it isn't too much of an identi-kit copy and paste that looks like something ran by another operator.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/27974644@N07/51523176814
https://www.flickr.com/photos/york-bus/42835576360

(05 Dec 2021, 9:33 pm)Andreos1 wrote The grey spare livery is the one that stands out for me. 
Maybe it's because it isn't too much of an identi-kit copy and paste that looks like something ran by another operator.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/27974644@N07/51523176814
https://www.flickr.com/photos/york-bus/42835576360

Thanks to the proliferation of Best Impressions designs, all liveries now seem identi-kit...

(06 Dec 2021, 9:34 am)54APhotography wrote Thanks to the proliferation of Best Impressions designs, all liveries now seem identi-kit...

I don't think it's fair to blame Best Impressions.

Go North East has briefed in the design concepts to the agencies which they use (not limited to Best Impressions). Go North East's Managing Director made it very publicly known when starting at the company that his view was that all branded buses should have something that ties them together in one house style, having achieved something similar in his last position at Reading Buses.

This 'house style' is two colours separated by two 'road stripes' on a 55-degree angle. Inevitably any other operators using a similar livery design will look similar - there are only so many colours in the rainbow, especially colours which don't jar... That's not the design agency's fault, that's the operators'.

Ironically, and further reiterating my point, the two examples Andreos gave above (First Leeds & Tyne Valley 10) were designed by different agencies.

(06 Dec 2021, 10:13 am)Dan wrote Go North East has briefed in the design concepts to the agencies which they use (not limited to Best Impressions). Go North East's Managing Director made it very publicly known when starting at the company that his view was that all branded buses should have something that ties them together in one house style, having achieved something similar in his last position at Reading Buses.

This 'house style' is two colours separated by two 'road stripes' on a 55-degree angle. 

That brief not make it to the Quaycity or Voltra designers then?

(06 Dec 2021, 10:17 am)mb134 wrote That brief not make it to the Quaycity or Voltra designers then?

No, they were intentionally designed as services in the 'special' livery.

VOLTRA because it's electric and Go North East wanted them to stand out against the rest, and, right or wrong, Quaycity because of its ties with the Toon Tour and other tourist activity at the Quayside. The Metrocentre Shuttle was similarly branded in the special livery.

(06 Dec 2021, 10:13 am)Dan wrote I don't think it's fair to blame Best Impressions.

Go North East has briefed in the design concepts to the agencies which they use (not limited to Best Impressions). Go North East's Managing Director made it very publicly known when starting at the company that his view was that all branded buses should have something that ties them together in one house style, having achieved something similar in his last position at Reading Buses.

This 'house style' is two colours separated by two 'road stripes' on a 55-degree angle. Inevitably any other operators using a similar livery design will look similar - there are only so many colours in the rainbow, especially colours which don't jar... That's not the design agency's fault, that's the operators'.

Ironically, and further reiterating my point, the two examples Andreos gave above (First Leeds & Tyne Valley 10) were designed by different agencies.

We will disagree there, looking at the country as a whole you don't need to look twice to spot a BI design, problem is when one person/team is responsible it soon loses any individuality and starts to blend. Your roadstripes are a different aspect, by that ⅔ block colour to ⅓ diagonal break is all over the shop.

It is an observation many see..

(06 Dec 2021, 10:17 am)mb134 wrote That brief not make it to the Quaycity or Voltra designers then?

The brief was obviously to make the Q3 look very similar to the LBA services. https://flic.kr/p/2kGWoCy
https://busandtrainuser.com/2020/09/02/f...flyer/amp/

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(06 Dec 2021, 10:13 am)Dan wrote I don't think it's fair to blame Best Impressions.

Go North East has briefed in the design concepts to the agencies which they use (not limited to Best Impressions). Go North East's Managing Director made it very publicly known when starting at the company that his view was that all branded buses should have something that ties them together in one house style, having achieved something similar in his last position at Reading Buses.

This 'house style' is two colours separated by two 'road stripes' on a 55-degree angle. Inevitably any other operators using a similar livery design will look similar - there are only so many colours in the rainbow, especially colours which don't jar... That's not the design agency's fault, that's the operators'.

Ironically, and further reiterating my point, the two examples Andreos gave above (First Leeds & Tyne Valley 10) were designed by different agencies.

Take away that corporate road stripe and the differences are even harder to detect.
Do you not find it bizarre that different operators in various parts of the country all seem to be jumping on the same pattern or theme? With designers seemingly struggling to come up with something unique or different?
Yet, designers in other parts of the world (away from the corporate templates set out by those in say Doxford Towers) seem to manage fine.

Unless they're all copying each other (I mean are inspired by) and are desperate to have a curve or vertical/diagonal line of some sort.

(06 Dec 2021, 5:09 pm)Andreos1 wrote The brief was obviously to make the Q3 look very similar to the LBA services. https://flic.kr/p/2kGWoCy
https://busandtrainuser.com/2020/09/02/f...flyer/amp/

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Take away that corporate road stripe and the differences are even harder to detect.
Do you not find it bizarre that different operators in various parts of the country all seem to be jumping on the same pattern or theme? With designers seemingly struggling to come up with something unique or different?
Yet, designers in other parts of the world (away from the corporate templates set out by those in say Doxford Towers) seem to manage fine.

Unless they're all copying each other (I mean are inspired by) and are desperate to have a curve or vertical/diagonal line of some sort.

Howay, even a blind man can tell them apart, I fail to see the similarity between Quaycity and Flyer....giz a clue!

(06 Dec 2021, 10:13 am)Dan wrote I don't think it's fair to blame Best Impressions.

Go North East has briefed in the design concepts to the agencies which they use (not limited to Best Impressions). Go North East's Managing Director made it very publicly known when starting at the company that his view was that all branded buses should have something that ties them together in one house style, having achieved something similar in his last position at Reading Buses.

This 'house style' is two colours separated by two 'road stripes' on a 55-degree angle. Inevitably any other operators using a similar livery design will look similar - there are only so many colours in the rainbow, especially colours which don't jar... That's not the design agency's fault, that's the operators'.

Ironically, and further reiterating my point, the two examples Andreos gave above (First Leeds & Tyne Valley 10) were designed by different agencies.

To the average passenger, it's not obvious in my view that the buses are run by Go North East - no longer is there a fleet name on the front or above the entrance doors, it's relatively small and towards the rear.

Questions you have to ask. Is all this bus branding really working in "getting people back on board"