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I know your favourite colour then! Take it you're not referring to Maidstone's livery of the 1980s, when I worked there: not a hint of blue let alone a double decker!Birkenhead Corporation
Maidstone Corporation
Could be the Stenning inspired Boroline Maidstone of the dereg age? Not one of his best, tbhI know your favourite colour then! Take it you're not referring to Maidstone's livery of the 1980s, when I worked there: not a hint of blue let alone a double decker!
Agreed, not awful but not to be recommended.Could be the Stenning inspired Boroline Maidstone of the dereg age? Not one of his best, tbh
Burnley and Pendle's scheme also gets my voteI agree with Tyne and Wear PTE.
I also have soft spots for 1980s Burnley and Pendle (fond memories of seeing them in Skipton, where they seemed quite exotic to my North East and Yorkshire eyes).
(Preserved) Burnley & Pendle 34 MFV34T
Leyland Leopard PSU3E. Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire Open Day 2013 White Lund Estate Bus Depot, Morecambewww.flickr.com
also liked Cleveland Transit of the same era, bright and crisp.
13 G239KWY Felling
Preserved Leyland Lynx MK1 G293KWY is pictured outside Tyneside Heritage Vehicles in Felling, with its freshly applied Cleveland Transit decals. Leyland Lynx Mk1 G293KWY was new a Keighley & District as their 201 in November 1989, being one of eight purchased by the Blazefield company. It...www.flickr.com
The SPT Crimson/Cream (or Carmine/Cream as I always knew it) worked best on the heavy rail suburban stock (the 156s, the 4 303s so treated, 318s pre-refurb & the 320/3s all looked particularly fetching), while I agree that the preceding Red/Black (or Orange/Black as I've always referred to it) worked on near enough everything it was applied to (buses, trains and Subway stock). Like I said in my opening post, it was quintessentially Glaswegian in it's boldness, brashness and distinctiveness.Strathclyde Red wins at a canter for me. It looked stunning on buses and trains alike; I was so disappointed when the trains started to go crimson and cream as it simply never compared. I was lucky enough to see that First Gemini in the flesh a couple of times and it looked fabulous.
Maidstone - do you mean the light blue and cream livery (?dark blue lining?), traditional layout? London Country borrowed some Leyland PD2s from Maidstone with that layout when they had a shortage - mid/ late 60s, early 70s? Operated from Dartford I believe, on local services. They looked smart, unlike the London Country many of which looked shabby by then. It may have been when Maidstone had started to introduce OMO, so they had a surplus of driver+conductor vehicles.Birkenhead Corporation
Maidstone Corporation
Maidstone can be the blue and cream or the earlier brown and cream livery - both looked smart imho.Maidstone - do you mean the light blue and cream livery (?dark blue lining?), traditional layout? London Country borrowed some Leyland PD2s from Maidstone with that layout when they had a shortage - mid/ late 60s, early 70s? Operated from Dartford I believe, on local services. They looked smart, unlike the London Country many of which looked shabby by then. It may have been when Maidstone had started to introduce OMO, so they had a surplus of driver+conductor vehicles.
I always thought it looked vile with that expanse of black.An oddball suggestion but I quite liked the Plymouth Citybus livery. Stylised and distinctive (credit to photographer) @iantherev https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianth...Kt-9dLtH4-5tkhVE-5HmZgh-65iakB-diLJ3R-7WNuFp/
I have to agree that I'm not overly keen on that. It would have looked better if the lower panels were kept white with the red skirt and to have black window surrounds instead. Wasn't Plymouth's livery red and cream prior to this?I always thought it looked vile with that expanse of black.
That Tayside livery makes me feel hungry for rice pudding as it reminds me of packaging for a brand of rice pudding.I have to agree that I'm not overly keen on that. It would have looked better if the lower panels were kept white with the red skirt and to have black window surrounds instead. Wasn't Plymouth's livery red and cream prior to this?
As for my own favourites, I've always liked the post-privatisation Grampian livery whose style was briefly rolled out across other GRT Holdings companies before the advent of First and Barbie (link to image from William Walker's excellent collection):
Grampian Regional Transport Ltd 109 (A109 FSA), 1984 Leyland Olympian ONLXB/1R / Alexander RH H47/26D, King Street Garage, Aberdeen, July 1991.
A Leyland ONLXB/1R/Alexander H47/26D new in 1984, 109 was one of a batch of ten buses 101 - 110 (A101 - 110 FSA). ss8807be wwr-001flickr.com
I also rather liked the Tayside two-tone blue and cream (image from David Devoy's extensive collection):
TAYSIDE BUSES 63 OSN863Y
OSN863Y was a Volvo Ailsa B55-10 / East Lancs H51/33D new as Tayside Regional Council number 63 in April 1983. It was rebuilt to single-door in 1992, then passed to the associated Highland Country fleet as their number 322 in December 1997, and remained after Rapson's had assumed full control.flickr.com
They did indeed operate from Dartford. I remember seeing one on the 499 Joyce Green Hospital service, and I believe they could be seen on the spasmodic journeys on the 480 that Northfleet didn't cover. Lovely Massey bodywork that Maidstone favoured for a long time: so much better looking than anything that ever came out of that other Wigan factory!Maidstone - do you mean the light blue and cream livery (?dark blue lining?), traditional layout? London Country borrowed some Leyland PD2s from Maidstone with that layout when they had a shortage - mid/ late 60s, early 70s? Operated from Dartford I believe, on local services. They looked smart, unlike the London Country many of which looked shabby by then. It may have been when Maidstone had started to introduce OMO, so they had a surplus of driver+conductor vehicles.
That is true - it's subjective. I have to say that I didn't feel the love for the green and cream combos of Merseyside, West Yorkshire or Cleveland Transit. Also, whilst the GMPTE with the brown was an improvement on the Selnec/GMT livery, I probably preferred the final GM livery of orange and white before it was broken up.
Although before my time, Rhymney Valley with its mustard yellow and brown really couldn't have been more 70s if they'd painted a kipper tie and sideburns on the livery!
The Newcastle inspired Tyne and Wear PTE scheme as worn by the PTE, United and Northern vehicles (credit to photographer); a smart, clean evolution of Newcastle Corpy (or it was when newly painted)
Leyland Olympian/ECW: 3656 C656LJR Tyne and Wear Transport
Preserved former Northern Leyland Olympian/ECW 3656 C656LJR is pictured at the NEBPT's Rally at the Durham Park & Ride site on June 17th 2018.www.flickr.com
The Southend livery was quite a nice one IIRC. That was one of a number of good liveries courtesy of later British Bus/Cowie that were removed in favour of Cotswold and AquamarineArriva did have some best liveries, before they became Arriva
Yes. I believe the Birmingham was a rather darker shade of blue, which I think suited the rear entrance vehicles used on the 11 and cross city routes when I moved to the city as did the thick stripes between decks that accentuated the vehicles' architecture. Also the khaki roof, which I once read was introduced as camouflage during WWII but was still in use on OMOs into the seventies, provided a slight contrast to the cream. There was a rumour that it was kept because of bird droppings - where it was to disguise their presence or the type of paint repelled the stuff I don't know (or it could just have been an invention).For me, Birmingham and WMPTE (more or less the same livery). Classic and practical