Repaints and refurbishments 2023

[Jack]

How come 2201 and 4884 came out with no branding?

[don]

with 4763 back at WB, 4768 has gone into paint. BC will be sending 4881 in next week

It's good to see the flow of repaints/refurbs increase, but with the school summer break timetables starting soon, is it likely garages can spare more buses to go through the process at a time? I know at one stage the paint shop had around 15 vehicles at a time going through. Be good to see some of WB's oft maligned 49xx and similar BC's (I know a start has been made with 4940), go through.

Also, would the non-crimson 4718 batch (YW) qualify for repaint or are they too old (same age as the soon to depart Scanias)!! 

[Tony]

It's good to see the flow of repaints/refurbs increase, but with the school summer break timetables starting soon, is it likely garages can spare more buses to go through the process at a time? I know at one stage the paint shop had around 15 vehicles at a time going through. Be good to see some of WB's oft maligned 49xx and similar BC's (I know a start has been made with 4940), go through.

Also, would the non-crimson 4718 batch (YW) qualify for repaint or are they too old (same age as the soon to depart Scanias)!!

If 300 new buses come next year, which was the announcement, 170 have already been confirmed, that would wipe out the oldest 300 buses which would tale out all buses new in 2010 or before!

[Stu]

It's good to see the flow of repaints/refurbs increase, but with the school summer break timetables starting soon, is it likely garages can spare more buses to go through the process at a time?

With PVRs being lower, the school summer holidays are probably an ideal time to ramp up repaints.

[Tony]

With PVRs being lower, the school summer holidays are probably an ideal time to ramp up repaints.

Bodymakers who do the preperations also take more holidays, so actually fewer staff available to do them

[Steve3229vp]

If 300 new buses come next year, which was the announcement, 170 have already been confirmed, that would wipe out the oldest 300 buses which would tale out all buses new in 2010 or before!

Oh Yes, bye bye Scania Omnilinks !

[18WilliamsLi]

Oh Yes, bye bye Scania Omnilinks !

Scanias are the best

[Jack]

Oh Yes, bye bye Scania Omnilinks !

Would much rather have an Omnilink over no bus at all, and much preferred to an E200 or B7RLE imo.

[don]

Would much rather have an Omnilink over no bus at all, and much preferred to an E200 or B7RLE imo.

Indeed but if replaced by B7RLEs or double deckers this wouldn't happen. Another possibility is cascade of E200MMC to replace Omnilinks if the 4 gets converted to electric double decker. All conjecture but the next year will be very interesting indeed. 

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Has 4667 been painted to red and white?  It's been edited on bus times .org by Tony.

[Tony]

Has 4667 been painted to red and white?

It's at Walsall and should be being done today. I'm off work on Jury Service at the moment so not fully up to date on everything

[Busses_transport_]

Has 4667 been painted to red and white?  It's been edited on bus times .org by Tony.

It's at Walsall and should be being done today. I'm off work on Jury Service at the moment so not fully up to date on everything

It's at Walsall and should be being done today. I'm off work on Jury Service at the moment so not fully up to date on everything

Why not paint it into grey livery it's a bit silly painting it into red and white 2 livery's old would be nice to at least see a gemeni in the grey livery, plus being as the grey is what painters are doing wouldn't it just be easier to paint it into grey. 

[Stu]

Why not paint it into grey livery it's a bit silly painting it into red and white 2 livery's old would be nice to at least see a gemeni in the grey livery, plus being as the grey is what painters are doing wouldn't it just be easier to paint it into grey.

Presumably its just having the blue bits painted over. Makes no sense to do a full repaint/refurb on a bus that probably only has less than a year of life left.

[Tony]

Presumably its just having the blue bits painted over. Makes no sense to do a full repaint/refurb on a bus that probably only has less than a year of life left.

Correct

[Sh4318]

If 300 new buses come next year, which was the announcement, 170 have already been confirmed, that would wipe out the oldest 300 buses which would tale out all buses new in 2010 or before!

That's the Euro 4 Enviro 400s done then