Uniformity Approaches

Further to last week's post Solos 240 and 246 have been repainted recently, leaving just 245 and 294 in Line 2 colours. Focus has now turned to eradicating Line 3 livery with 258, 259 and 296 currently receiving repaints leaving just 295 in service. Trident repaints are also continuing with 311 in paint. Excel 218 is also receiving body attention prior to a repaint - just its second repaint in its 13 year service life having gained Metro pool livery in 2004.

These repaints will leave 8 buses in pool livery and 8 in Line liveries. Other than all-over adverts and the open toppers the fleet will soon all carry the same fleet livery. It was back in 1977 that all buses carried the same livery (all cream). Since 1986 Blackpool Transport has eschewed a single livery, with the introduction of red/white for the Routemasters and then black/yellow for the minibuses. The latter ended in 2001 when the multiple Metro liveries were applied.  

The 18th Manx DAF has been outshopped at Bus and Coach World, as 371. This is believed to be ex Bus Vannin 57.


Manx DAF Status

No	Reg	IOM No	IOM Reg	Chassis No	Body No	Arrived	Service
354	L50BTS	97	FMN835J	009267	38310	6/7/12	10/9/12
355	L100BTS	95	FMN622J	009266	38309	17/7/12	5/9/12
356	L200BTS	93	FMN621J	009261	38304	27/7/12	5/9/12
357	L300BTS	94	FMN620J	009264	38307	27/7/12	5/9/12
358	L400BTS	96	FMN623J	009262	38305	30/7/12	6/9/12
359	L500BTS	98	FMN836J	009265	38308	31/7/12	4/10/12
360	L600BTS	89	FMN299J	009259	38302	30/7/12	3/10/12
361	L700BTS	90	FMN503J	009260	38303	22/8/12	12/10/12
362	L800BTS	92	FMN619J	009263	38306	?/8/12	3/10/12
363	L900BTS	91	FMN618J	009258	38301	30/8/12	4/10/12
364	J70BTS	54	FMN181P	009431	41101	25/9/12	17/12/12
365	J90BTS	81	FMN804T	009830	41109	25/9/12	17/12/12
366	J200BTS	78	FMN501T	009651	41106	23/10/12	17/12/12
367	J300BTS	56	FMN498T	009617	41103	9/10/12	17/12/12
368	tbc	79	FMN502T	009652	41107	11/01/13	awaited
369	tbc	76	FMN500T	009650	41105	29/01/13	awaited
370	tbc	77	FMN505T	009831	41110	tbc	awaited
371	tbc	57	FMN499T	009649	41104	awaited	awaited