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Post by westyorkshirebus on Aug 18, 2022 21:31:13 GMT 1
Well if it is then what a waste of money that could and should be spent recruiting drivers, paying more to retain drivers and even saving bus services! How much did they spend on coming up with the design to start with, then all the repaints, including recent ones only for the livery to be scrapped after what must only be a year in Halifax! Wouldn't shock me, First loves to burn money repainting buses just to repaint them back to the standard first livery a couple years later. Examples just in Huddersfield... Zest, Holme Valley, Heritage and now the X63! 32507 won’t be staying on the X63 so it makes sense not to repaint it into X63 livery You can hardly say it wasn’t over due, all the X63 buses are scruffy, they were last repainted ages ago It’s worth pointing out that buses aren’t just repainted to introduce a new look, they are repainted routinely as well, including some times in the same livery as it already carries, so the buses would still have been repainted regardless of what livery they were done into
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Post by jus363 on Aug 18, 2022 21:58:52 GMT 1
I didn’t mind the livery but the branding was rubbish and they won’t have to repaint that many in Halifax because a lot have already gone for scrap
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Post by mattb7tl on Aug 18, 2022 22:15:29 GMT 1
Wouldn't shock me, First loves to burn money repainting buses just to repaint them back to the standard first livery a couple years later. Examples just in Huddersfield... Zest, Holme Valley, Heritage and now the X63! 32507 won’t be staying on the X63 so it makes sense not to repaint it into X63 livery You can hardly say it wasn’t over due, all the X63 buses are scruffy, they were last repainted ages ago It’s worth pointing out that buses aren’t just repainted to introduce a new look, they are repainted routinely as well, including some times in the same livery as it already carries, so the buses would still have been repainted regardless of what livery they were done into They're definitely looking scruffy. However, I think the way they approach the issue of liveries getting outdated and scruffy is a mistake. Instead of reverting back to the generic and outdated standard livery, they should use it as a chance to refresh their branded liveries.
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Post by driver6540 on Aug 18, 2022 22:39:38 GMT 1
Isn't there a bit of hysteria creeping in here?. Who's to say the "HD/HX Connect livery/branding is being scrapped, just because one bus has received a different coat of paint?
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Post by jus363 on Aug 19, 2022 10:54:31 GMT 1
Just seen 37713 in HX Connect livery that must have just been done in the last week, Could that be the last to be painted in to HX Livery ?
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Post by Username on Aug 19, 2022 13:40:35 GMT 1
Just seen 37713 in HX Connect livery that must have just been done in the last week, Could that be the last to be painted in to HX Livery ? Saturday was it's first day in service.
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Post by Jagga on Aug 20, 2022 14:12:48 GMT 1
Isn't there a bit of hysteria creeping in here?. Who's to say the "HD/HX Connect livery/branding is being scrapped, just because one bus has received a different coat of paint? Agreed, 37292 has just been repainted into HD and now has guidewheels too. So people need to take a chill pill
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Post by sidthesexist on Aug 21, 2022 17:10:01 GMT 1
The whole HD HX connect idea just seems to be a complete and utter mess.
Buses receiving a paint job at the very end of their service life tells me there is a bus enthusiast in a high up position running the show in the HX/HD area who has had very good ideas turned down by higher up so just works to rule with his budget.
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Post by Father Dougal McGuire on Aug 21, 2022 18:39:39 GMT 1
I think the repaints in Halifax and Huddersfield should have just been left alone. They got every bus back in the same livery after parting with Calder Connect, Zest, Holme Valley Connection with the only exception being the X63 Branded buses in Huddersfield but they ran with the branded Bradford B9s.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2022 19:11:30 GMT 1
The whole HD HX connect idea just seems to be a complete and utter mess. Buses receiving a paint job at the very end of their service life tells me there is a bus enthusiast in a high up position running the show in the HX/HD area who has had very good ideas turned down by higher up so just works to rule with his budget. Its been said on other forums that Stagecoach repaint their older vehicles as a way of training up apprentices & newer staff members before them moving on to newer vehicles that will be in the fleet longer term,First could be doing the same?
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Aug 21, 2022 20:31:22 GMT 1
I think the repaints in Halifax and Huddersfield should have just been left alone. They got every bus back in the same livery after parting with Calder Connect, Zest, Holme Valley Connection with the only exception being the X63 Branded buses in Huddersfield but they ran with the branded Bradford B9s. But First Halifax and Huddersfield are ones of now a very small list that would still be using olympia. You’d have people here complaining that Halifax and Huddersfield had been left behind and forgotten about (especially since Bradford got it’s own livery) Also that isn’t true about getting buses all in the same livery as the original version of HD Connect (on the 370-372) has existed for years And how many examples of buses that have since been withdrawn having been repainted as there really been? Sounds like an overreaction to me
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Post by driver6540 on Aug 21, 2022 21:44:25 GMT 1
There's always a logical answer that people don't see before jumping to conclusions. Perhaps 37360 had been earmarked for transfer to an operating area that has Olympia Urban in it's fleet, such as York for example. But then got diverted to Halifax instead. Who Know's?
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Post by driver6540 on Aug 21, 2022 21:51:26 GMT 1
The whole HD HX connect idea just seems to be a complete and utter mess. Buses receiving a paint job at the very end of their service life tells me there is a bus enthusiast in a high up position running the show in the HX/HD area who has had very good ideas turned down by higher up so just works to rule with his budget. I don't think the B9TL's receiving paint jobs in HD and HX are nearing the end of their service life. Many have had exhaust mods to bring them up to Euro 6 reg's, so they'll be around for a while yet.
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Post by Ethan's Bus Adventures 2024 on Aug 23, 2022 18:27:34 GMT 1
Apparently, StreetLite 47491 will be transferred from Huddersfield to Halifax, but it will arrive in Olympia livery instead of the HX Connect livery. Presumably, it might be repainted into 'Olympia Urban' livery like Volvo B9TL 37360. It would be a downgrade for First Halifax to stick with the new livery, or it might be because the dark blue paint has apparently run out. Who knows?
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Post by Jagga on Aug 23, 2022 20:14:34 GMT 1
Apparently, StreetLite 47491 will be transferred from Huddersfield to Halifax, but it will arrive in Olympia livery instead of the HX Connect livery. Presumably, it might be repainted into 'Olympia Urban' livery like Volvo B9TL 37360. It would be a downgrade for First Halifax to stick with the new livery, or it might be because the dark blue paint has apparently run out. Who knows? It's at HP ready for paint into HX possibly. Won't be Olympia as that was temporary until the paint arrived in stock
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Post by sidthesexist on Aug 23, 2022 21:20:55 GMT 1
Wasn't this bus due to be used on School Services only? If so, who knows what livery it will get?
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Post by ratty on Aug 23, 2022 21:28:15 GMT 1
Apparently, StreetLite 47491 will be transferred from Huddersfield to Halifax, but it will arrive in Olympia livery instead of the HX Connect livery. Presumably, it might be repainted into 'Olympia Urban' livery like Volvo B9TL 37360. It would be a downgrade for First Halifax to stick with the new livery, or it might be because the dark blue paint has apparently run out. Who knows? It's at HP ready for paint into HX possibly. Won't be Olympia as that was temporary until the paint arrived in stock There we are everybody the explanation for 37360 was painted in Olympia Urban, so the guesses can cease. What puzzles me personally is why wasn't 37360 just simply held back for a couple of weeks whilst the paint arrived. Even if it appeared scruffy/unkempt, for presumably several months previously, 2 weeks wouldn't matter that much surely?
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Post by mattb7tl on Aug 23, 2022 21:45:22 GMT 1
The person who created the post about the transfer says it is being repainted into... Olympia! The first picture of 37360 being repainted also mentioned that the 'hybrid?' olympia livery was reintroduced.
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Post by mattb7tl on Aug 24, 2022 14:07:00 GMT 1
37365 into Hybrid Olympia Comment from the author also mentions that HX Connect is scrapped 👍
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Post by andy1 on Aug 24, 2022 19:59:09 GMT 1
I saw an ex Huddersfield Streetlite earlier today passing Winding Road, obviously just being repainted, in HX Connect Livery ! 47491 perhaps ?
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Post by simon on Aug 24, 2022 20:05:03 GMT 1
Picture of 47491 in HX Connect livery on FB enthusiasts page.
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Post by Username on Aug 24, 2022 21:12:11 GMT 1
37365 into Hybrid Olympia Comment from the author also mentions that HX Connect is scrapped 👍 Well clearly not if a Streetlite is now in HX Connect.
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Post by mattb7tl on Aug 24, 2022 21:21:40 GMT 1
That's super odd, that repainted streetlite came from the same person who said that livery was scrapped? Maybe it was just a joke
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Post by jus363 on Aug 24, 2022 21:44:50 GMT 1
I saw an ex Huddersfield Streetlite earlier today passing Winding Road, obviously just being repainted, in HX Connect Livery ! 47491 perhaps ? I wonder if it’s had a full repaint or just had a shade of blue changed ? Personally I would of painted Halifax & Huddersfield in the same shade of blue, It’s always been a common for them to switch from one to another
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Post by Danny on Aug 25, 2022 9:08:42 GMT 1
I saw an ex Huddersfield Streetlite earlier today passing Winding Road, obviously just being repainted, in HX Connect Livery ! 47491 perhaps ? They have only painted the front Blue hence the HX Connect
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