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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 9:38:41 GMT 1
Latest repaints at Hunslet Park are 37029 69558 & 69561 in a new variant of the Holmfirth Connect livery with a mid blue front instead of red in base livery for the 370 / 371 route in Huddersfield, at the moment with no skylines but will be receiving route branding, 9 single & 9 double deckers to be done. The other repaint is 69465 for Doncaster with no skylines. Since I’m more than certain First do not need 18 vehicles on 370/371, will this include 372? I`d assume so,as the Eclipse 2s are mostly used on the 372 plus doesnt the 370/1 still interwork with 372 on Evenings & Sundays?
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Post by 1601 on Jul 28, 2018 12:09:45 GMT 1
Since I’m more than certain First do not need 18 vehicles on 370/371, will this include 372? I`d assume so,as the Eclipse 2s are mostly used on the 372 plus doesnt the 370/1 still interwork with 372 on Evenings & Sundays? Yup
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Post by kevg on Jul 28, 2018 16:34:50 GMT 1
Latest repaints at Hunslet Park are 37029 69558 & 69561 in a new variant of the Holmfirth Connect livery with a mid blue front instead of red in base livery for the 370 / 371 route in Huddersfield, at the moment with no skylines but will be receiving route branding, 9 single & 9 double deckers to be done. The other repaint is 69465 for Doncaster with no skylines. Since I’m more than certain First do not need 18 vehicles on 370/371, will this include 372? Yes it probably does, haven't seen the branding that's being applied yet.
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Post by dennisthemenace504 on Jul 30, 2018 10:08:41 GMT 1
One of the new blue front Huddersfield vehicles
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Post by driver6540 on Jul 30, 2018 22:23:37 GMT 1
Anyone got any idea what the branding will be?. Given the 370's batch of services link the south east of Huddersfield to the north west of the town via the Infirmary, could it be a "Hospital Connection" branding?. dennis's picture above shows 37029 on a "Holme Valley connection" route, misallocation already?
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Post by dennisthemenace504 on Jul 31, 2018 5:19:42 GMT 1
Anyone got any idea what the branding will be?. Given the 370's batch of services link the south east of Huddersfield to the north west of the town via the Infirmary, could it be a "Hospital Connection" branding?. dennis's picture above shows 37029 on a "Holme Valley connection" route, misallocation already? I wouldn't say it's been misallocated yet, due to their being no branding on it, cos, when the red front end vehicles started appearing, they too, were put out with no branding on, on routes, other than the intended set of routes, that the eventual branding, when applied showed what routes. There was also a single with the blue front running on the 328. As you've suggested, and like I also think, the branding could possibly be something to do with, all 3 services (370/71/72) going to the Hospital/Lindley. Could it also be to ramp up the competition with Streamline who also run between Town and Hospital/Lindley on the same routes with their 370/371 services?
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Post by Marcus on Jul 31, 2018 8:04:18 GMT 1
Anyone got any idea what the branding will be?. Given the 370's batch of services link the south east of Huddersfield to the north west of the town via the Infirmary, could it be a "Hospital Connection" branding?. dennis's picture above shows 37029 on a "Holme Valley connection" route, misallocation already? I wouldn't say it's been misallocated yet, due to their being no branding on it, cos, when the red front end vehicles started appearing, they too, were put out with no branding on, on routes, other than the intended set of routes, that the eventual branding, when applied showed what routes. There was also a single with the blue front running on the 328. As you've suggested, and like I also think, the branding could possibly be something to do with, all 3 services (370/71/72) going to the Hospital/Lindley. Could it also be to ramp up the competition with Streamline who also run between Town and Hospital/Lindley on the same routes with their 370/371 services? My guess is that it’ll advertise a 5 minute frequency between Moldgreen, Huddersfield, Marsh, HRI and Lindley
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Post by driver6540 on Jul 31, 2018 22:16:47 GMT 1
Anyone got any idea what the branding will be?. Given the 370's batch of services link the south east of Huddersfield to the north west of the town via the Infirmary, could it be a "Hospital Connection" branding?. dennis's picture above shows 37029 on a "Holme Valley connection" route, misallocation already? I wouldn't say it's been misallocated yet, due to their being no branding on it, cos, when the red front end vehicles started appearing, they too, were put out with no branding on, on routes, other than the intended set of routes, that the eventual branding, when applied showed what routes. There was also a single with the blue front running on the 328. As you've suggested, and like I also think, the branding could possibly be something to do with, all 3 services (370/71/72) going to the Hospital/Lindley. Could it also be to ramp up the competition with Streamline who also run between Town and Hospital/Lindley on the same routes with their 370/371 services? Fair point, as you say with no branding then not really a misallocation (yet). Noted this evening on 370's services were 37029 and blue fronted 69561. I Wouldn't have thought First would have viewed Streamline as serious competition though, given their relatively low loadings on their midi Dart run services on the same route. Fair play to First though, for trying to raise the profile of their service on these routes.
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Jul 31, 2018 22:58:23 GMT 1
Anyone got any idea what the branding will be?. Given the 370's batch of services link the south east of Huddersfield to the north west of the town via the Infirmary, could it be a "Hospital Connection" branding?. dennis's picture above shows 37029 on a "Holme Valley connection" route, misallocation already? I wouldn't say it's been misallocated yet, due to their being no branding on it, cos, when the red front end vehicles started appearing, they too, were put out with no branding on, on routes, other than the intended set of routes, that the eventual branding, when applied showed what routes. There was also a single with the blue front running on the 328. As you've suggested, and like I also think, the branding could possibly be something to do with, all 3 services (370/71/72) going to the Hospital/Lindley. Could it also be to ramp up the competition with Streamline who also run between Town and Hospital/Lindley on the same routes with their 370/371 services? No it's more likely a reaction to Yorkshire Tiger's competition on the Wakefield Road corridor Streamline is an irrelevance to First, 2 Darts pottering around the same as they've done for years. I'm surprised First haven't done coloured fronts for the Golcar Circular yet.
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Post by kevg on Aug 3, 2018 20:26:57 GMT 1
Latest repaints at Hunslet Park are 66758 Bradford skylines and 37030, 69556 & 69559 in the blue fronted base livery for the 370, 371 & 372.
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Post by kevg on Aug 10, 2018 21:31:46 GMT 1
Latest repaints at Hunslet Park are 31782 out of Barbie livery into Olympia for Doncaster with no skylines and 32517, 37032 & 69560 in the blue fronted base livery for 370 / 371 in Huddersfield, still don't know if the 372 will be included in the branding. A couple of interesting repaints coming are 69374 in Rider York livery which will be started shortly and another single decker in York City Transport livery of Royal blue & cream with gold lining which I believe an Olympian was painted in a few years ago.
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Post by Jagga on Aug 10, 2018 22:45:06 GMT 1
The 371 route is being extended to Upper Heaton so that will be probably go on it.
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Post by dennisthemenace504 on Aug 10, 2018 22:49:06 GMT 1
Latest repaints at Hunslet Park are 31782 out of Barbie livery into Olympia for Doncaster with no skylines and 32517, 37032 & 69560 in the blue fronted base livery for 370 / 371 in Huddersfield, still don't know if the 372 will be included in the branding. A couple of interesting repaints coming are 69274 in Rider York livery which will be started shortly and another single decker in York City Transport livery of Royal blue & cream with gold lining which I believe an Olympian was painted in a few years ago. IF 372 isn't going to be using blue fronted vehicles, why they doing singles in it? The 370/371 is usually run using deckers, and 372 mostly run using singles?
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Post by 1601 on Aug 10, 2018 22:50:41 GMT 1
Latest repaints at Hunslet Park are 31782 out of Barbie livery into Olympia for Doncaster with no skylines and 32517, 37032 & 69560 in the blue fronted base livery for 370 / 371 in Huddersfield, still don't know if the 372 will be included in the branding. A couple of interesting repaints coming are 69274 in Rider York livery which will be started shortly and another single decker in York City Transport livery of Royal blue & cream with gold lining which I believe an Olympian was painted in a few years ago. IF 372 isn't going to be using blue fronted vehicles, why they doing singles in it? The 370/371 is usually run using deckers, and 372 mostly run using singles? Another question is IF 372 isn't going to be using blue fronted vehicles, why do they need 18 repainted buses? xD
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Aug 10, 2018 23:55:10 GMT 1
I’m guessing the branding is applied in Huddersfield which means Hunslet Park paintshop don’t actually need to know the finer details.
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Post by chriswade2008 on Aug 11, 2018 7:32:38 GMT 1
69274 is allocated to Bradford so would then transfer to York after repaint I take it
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Post by 576 Gemini 2 on Aug 11, 2018 18:36:09 GMT 1
Latest repaints at Hunslet Park are 31782 out of Barbie livery into Olympia for Doncaster with no skylines and 32517, 37032 & 69560 in the blue fronted base livery for 370 / 371 in Huddersfield, still don't know if the 372 will be included in the branding. A couple of interesting repaints coming are 69274 in Rider York livery which will be started shortly and another single decker in York City Transport livery of Royal blue & cream with gold lining which I believe an Olympian was painted in a few years ago. yr 5196/First 30681 A600 NYG was The Olympian in York livery
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Post by rider5521 on Aug 11, 2018 20:21:38 GMT 1
Latest repaints at Hunslet Park are 31782 out of Barbie livery into Olympia for Doncaster with no skylines and 32517, 37032 & 69560 in the blue fronted base livery for 370 / 371 in Huddersfield, still don't know if the 372 will be included in the branding. A couple of interesting repaints coming are 69274 in Rider York livery which will be started shortly and another single decker in York City Transport livery of Royal blue & cream with gold lining which I believe an Olympian was painted in a few years ago. yr 5196/First 30681 A600 NYG was The Olympian in York livery They need to be thinking more about getting bums on seats by improving service provision than blowing thousands of pounds painting buses in colours that the average customers won't remember of give a toss about. Sure the average customer in York will be pleased to see the latest fare rise blown by seeing 5-6k wasted on a few bus spotters who've convinced an MD to paint buses harking back to an era most won't remember. For God's sake York corporation was in the 1920 wasn't it, Who is going to have a connection with that? Get that there are key birthdays of companies and is nice to remember and as such a heratige livery of some description, aligned with the current brand makes sense. If anybody can convince me that just painting a bus in a random colour without any explanation to the customer is a good thing, then will wait holding my breath to hear of where it has grown or has improved public transport.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 22:44:15 GMT 1
yr 5196/First 30681 A600 NYG was The Olympian in York livery They need to be thinking more about getting bums on seats by improving service provision than blowing thousands of pounds painting buses in colours that the average customers won't remember of give a toss about. Sure the average customer in York will be pleased to see the latest fare rise blown by seeing 5-6k wasted on a few bus spotters who've convinced an MD to paint buses harking back to an era most won't remember. For God's sake York corporation was in the 1920 wasn't it, Who is going to have a connection with that? Get that there are key birthdays of companies and is nice to remember and as such a heratige livery of some description, aligned with the current brand makes sense. If anybody can convince me that just painting a bus in a random colour without any explanation to the customer is a good thing, then will wait holding my breath to hear of where it has grown or has improved public transport. If there is spare money perhaps retrimming some of the insides of the appalling fleet might not go amiss, I’ve seen buses on my local routes with a mush mash of seat coverings as well as the obligatory thread bare ones instead of wasting money on a livery which means nothing to anyone who actually uses the buses.
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Post by ajw11239 on Aug 11, 2018 23:12:16 GMT 1
Couldn't agree more. I don't know enough about Leeds apart from the few times I've used First services there (where it's just as bad) - but in York the condition of the fleet generally is appalling.
Most of York's city routes are run by knackered, dirty buses which have the saddest interiors and have seat covers that look like they've never ever been changed. They make them so unattractive and unappealing to travel on - it's such a shame because I think there's the potential for a lot of growth in those city routes but they're run with a mind of "the passengers have no alternative so does it matter what they're like inside" and it drives more and more people away.
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Post by kevg on Aug 12, 2018 20:05:06 GMT 1
69274 is allocated to Bradford so would then transfer to York after repaint I take it I'll check that tomorrow I think a wrong number has been put in the book, I had noticed it was a Bradford one quoted but I think it is one of the York ones.
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Post by chriswade2008 on Aug 13, 2018 9:35:19 GMT 1
69374 perhaps?
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Post by kevg on Aug 13, 2018 23:02:11 GMT 1
Yes it is 69374 going into Rider York livery.
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Post by Steve Macz403 on Aug 19, 2018 23:29:51 GMT 1
Yes it is 69374 going into Rider York livery. That’ll be an interesting liberty similar to 37674 but with the post 1995 Badgerline style output.
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Post by A1YBG on Aug 20, 2018 21:05:34 GMT 1
Yes it is 69374 going into Rider York livery. That’ll be an interesting liberty similar to 37674 but with the post 1995 Badgerline style output. Will it gain fleetnumber 1374 as thats what the single decks had then.?
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