tbtc
Veteran Member
The news that Lothian Buses are to paint some of their vehicles in the heart/diamond/clubs (etc) livery/branding from about a decade ago got me thinking about how "young" some retro liveries are.
For example First repainted Volvo B7RLE 69017 (SF55 UAK) into a version of the "Mainline" livery that was running in Sheffield before First took over in the late '90s - the Mainline red/yellow continued into the 2000s (so was still around in the last fifteen years - I can't remember the final red/yellow vehicle running, might have been later).
Retro liveries are often associated with something like a fifty/hundred year anniversary but are there any other examples of a livery coming back after only ten/fifteen years?
(to avoid argument, I'm talking about buses currently in operation *and* historic examples of buses painted in relatively young liveries - maybe a separate category for fleet-wide changes back to a retro livery - e.g. that brief period when Clydeside Scottish started painting vehicles into Western Scottish colours rather than just a one-off for ons vehicle - I'll set the initial bar at bringing back a livery that was phased out twenty years ago but am sure someone will know of something that came back within a decade!)
For example First repainted Volvo B7RLE 69017 (SF55 UAK) into a version of the "Mainline" livery that was running in Sheffield before First took over in the late '90s - the Mainline red/yellow continued into the 2000s (so was still around in the last fifteen years - I can't remember the final red/yellow vehicle running, might have been later).
Retro liveries are often associated with something like a fifty/hundred year anniversary but are there any other examples of a livery coming back after only ten/fifteen years?
(to avoid argument, I'm talking about buses currently in operation *and* historic examples of buses painted in relatively young liveries - maybe a separate category for fleet-wide changes back to a retro livery - e.g. that brief period when Clydeside Scottish started painting vehicles into Western Scottish colours rather than just a one-off for ons vehicle - I'll set the initial bar at bringing back a livery that was phased out twenty years ago but am sure someone will know of something that came back within a decade!)