Santa Bus

Vehicle and Fleet discussions for First Midland Red Buses Limited or its predecessor, Midland Red West Limited.
willr7
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Re: Santa Bus

Post by willr7 » 21:44 Tuesday 15th December 2020

TimBrown wrote:
13:52 Monday 14th December 2020

53062 in 'Riversider' livery arrives into the City on a 417 from Ledbury, but will sister Solo 53061 eventually receive 'Riversider' livery?
I can't imagine them repainting 53061 into 'Riversider'. As pre-Covid the 31 was operated using 2 Solo's all day (Mon - Sat).

It could receive the spare bus livery... But considering we're not going to have our 'barbie' 54 plate decker's painted, I would imagine 53061 will remain in 'barbie' until Withdrawal now! :(

TimBrown
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Re: Santa Bus

Post by TimBrown » 05:31 Wednesday 16th December 2020

willr7 wrote:
21:44 Tuesday 15th December 2020
TimBrown wrote:
13:52 Monday 14th December 2020

53062 in 'Riversider' livery arrives into the City on a 417 from Ledbury, but will sister Solo 53061 eventually receive 'Riversider' livery?
I can't imagine them repainting 53061 into 'Riversider'. As pre-Covid the 31 was operated using 2 Solo's all day (Mon - Sat).

It could receive the spare bus livery... But considering we're not going to have our 'barbie' 54 plate decker's painted, I would imagine 53061 will remain in 'barbie' until Withdrawal now! :(
Thanks for the update on 53061, these Solos are getting 'long in the tooth' now and I seem to remember that there was talk many years ago of corrosion problems with this design, so lucky (depending on your viewpoint) that 61 & 62 survive at all.

On the topic of 54 plate double-deckers, is there any news about 33404 departing for Essex, if so whether it will be repainted or, as suggested elsewhere would happen on 32646, being covered in vinyl's?

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marck
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Re: Santa Bus

Post by marck » 14:27 Saturday 18th December 2021

Is there a Santa bus this year? I noticed South Yorkshire have 1 just wondered if Worcester/Midlands are doing one?

TimBrown
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Re: Santa Bus

Post by TimBrown » 09:09 Sunday 19th December 2021

I haven't seen one, but in lieu of the Santa bus I found this link to flicker site showing 33404 still operating in Essex in Midland Red livery and it seems to be well looked after;

https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=VX5 ... taken-desc

MattW
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Re: Santa Bus

Post by MattW » 16:23 Sunday 19th December 2021

Thats good to see. Shame we couldnt have kept it on though.

bmmoboy
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Re: Santa Bus

Post by bmmoboy » 16:56 Sunday 19th December 2021

We've been trying to get 36241 or 2 painted into possibly NBC poppy red livery, with Severnlink logos. which would have been nice to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the splitting up of Midland Red. We'll keep trying.

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