First Manchester

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RE: First Manchester

(09/08/2012 20:05)SF07 Wrote:  

(09/08/2012 19:59)Damien Wrote:  

(09/08/2012 19:28)mic Wrote:  do you have a link to this photo

Here it is mic courtesy of uktransport pics on flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49582039@N0.../contacts/

Paint cover at Bury is 37281/5

Another one from the front:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49582039@N08/7747037660/

If they're painting the bendies in to the new livery, then it might explain why I saw 31816 on the 135 this afternoon heading out of Manchester.

Also on Flickr, photos of 37296/9 in the new livery in Bury.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ingythewingy/7747943446/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ingythewingy/7747980656/

Why didn't these get the small white fleet numbers like the Bolton ones? Seen a pic of 37296 at OM next to BNs 37415 which showed 415 with the new fleet numbers together with "Greater Manchester" names and 296 without any and missing the f off the front. Is it a depot decision how repaints are finished?

Also, I hope the ones being sent to outside contractors come back in a uniform standard. Remember Arriva sending some B10BLEs to a painters in Blackburn and these coming back in a variation of their standard livery. Time will tell.