North Star 2463 at Devonport - 23 February 2015

Part of the excitement of worldwide photography is to engage in the detective work often necessary afterwards to provide useful notes with the picture. The bus and coach industry is complex with the links between branding and owners or operators frequently not obvious and this is as much the case in New Zealand as anywhere. This North Star Designline bodied MAN 17.223 2463/CRJ145 was at Devonport Ferry Terminal. The telephone number shown on the display is the recruitment line for (historically) Stagecoach New Zealand which is now NZ Bus. North Star comes under the NZ Bus umbrella and 'North Star' lettering normally appears between the fleet number and the accessibility symbol. Without that lettering quite a bit of time consuming research was needed which is why my New Zealand pictures are still making their way on to ipernity more than six weeks after the vacation.

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