Monday 15 October 2018
All Things Bright & Beautiful: Midland Red North M833 SDA
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2 comments:
Strange to think that the yellow was the DP version of the livery, and the more impressive white version (which always seemed to show higher quality and confidence to me) was the bog-standard service bus livery.
The yellow could perhaps have worked if the proportions were right, perhaps balanced with more white.
But then this was also the time that MR West were busy ruining the Midland Express livery, going from the white with red and yellow Venetian blind which looked good (if very 80s) to red bottom and too bright yellow from wheelarches up, which just didn't look at all special, and Travel West Midlands were painting Fleetlines in "silver" which wore badly and simply looked like a drab grey after a week or two. Liveries didn't seem a strong point at the time.
Perhaps it was just a turn-of-the-90s thing.
Ross, I quite liked the TWM silver painted Metrobuses with coach seats as they stood out but as with First once they all went that way it became drab. I have to agree with you that in many ways I did prefer the MRN red and white to the yellow alternative and another good reason which you didn't mention was that at least it didn't just look the same as many buses were red and yellow at that time.
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