F88 xof

[Brown]

Hi only seen pictures as it is in Brighton it looks good and it has just passed its mot it is coming back to the midlands next Saturday

[Liverpool Street]

Google and Flickr have brought up this image of F88 XOF from 2001 when it was still in the BCT Heritage Colours, had its full side blind (with number and via points).  The BCT colour scheme is far better than West Midlands Travel Battleship Grey!

Good luck with the restoration - what kind of condition is the bus in?

Now that's a livery!! Better then this modern Primary Colour crud.

Excellence!

I'd love to see it finished, Brown. Good luck and keep us posted.

[wilmotm (Matt Wilmot)]

It looks fantastic, just looked through the Ebay listing, with both a class 5 and 6 MOT! Tidiest Metro I've seen on Ebay for years, there's a video of it on Youtube on the 126 sounding great, obviously its from 5 years ago, but if looked after the engine should be running just as well

[Trident 4609]

It looks fantastic, just looked through the Ebay listing, with both a class 5 and 6 MOT! Tidiest Metro I've seen on Ebay for years, there's a video of it on Youtube on the 126 sounding great, obviously its from 5 years ago, but if looked after the engine should be running just as well

If it appeared on the 126 5 years ago then it was an very rare.working

[nitromatt1]

It looks fantastic, just looked through the Ebay listing, with both a class 5 and 6 MOT! Tidiest Metro I've seen on Ebay for years, there's a video of it on Youtube on the 126 sounding great, obviously its from 5 years ago, but if looked after the engine should be running just as well

If it appeared on the 126 5 years ago then it was an very rare.working

Maybe he meant 15 years ago

[wilmotm (Matt Wilmot)]

Ahem, 3088, went to PL, now WN, in 2002 before being withdrawn in 2009 with the arrival of the Spectra's, so probably spent a lot of time on the 126

Here's a photo of it on the 558

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59615439@N03/8163689459/

So no I definetly mean 5 years ago

[Trident 4609]

But it was 2008 5 years ago and Tridents were (Still are) the allocation of the 126 and Metrobuses appearing on the 126 would have been Ultra Rare. Metrobuses were common on the 126 up to 2004/5

[wilmotm (Matt Wilmot)]

Possibly, but I don't think it was as unusual as you are making out, a Spectra used to appear almost daily up until a year back and now a B5 is on there almost every day

[Trident 4609]

Possibly, but I don't think it was as unusual as you are making out, a Spectra used to appear almost daily up until a year back and now a B5 is on there almost every day

Unless it was on a 126E as i think Metrobuses used to cover on afternoon journeys when tridents weren't spare at peak times