Thumbs up from me!

[andrew1991]

If the buses are the same colour as the new fare charts they're going to be dark

[2900]

Is there a collection of photos chronicling the history of West Midlands bus liveries, a time line of which liveries started when and ceased to be, specifically from what is today nxwm to its routes through history. May be some one can point me the right direction if not a project for somebody. I,ve seen various random snapshots on the net at various points in time but nothing in order.
I can remember as kid in the 80s seeing so many variations of the blue/cream then blue/ silver.

[tank90]

After looking at trainbashers YouTube videos more so the Arriva Sapphire one I had some suggested vids come up which had vids from other parts of the Arriva bus family, and low and behold in the Nertherlands Arriva have NXB with red dipped fronts and white backs for local routes and then a mid grey bar along the bottom of the bus of out of city routes.
This lead me to think are Arriva looking to change there livery through out Europe as they had what looked to be new buses painted into this livery. Because if that is the case then I can see why NXB have decided to change the livery.

[DavieDD2]

The red is still hideous, but this would get the "thumbs up from me" :)

NX new livery 2 by DD02 BUS, on Flickr

[Trident 4609]

That could be the Coventry Variant possibly? ;)

[DavieDD2]

Coventry are welcome to share it - as long as Dundee get it as well!

[arrifirststage]

The red is still hideous, but this would get the "thumbs up from me" :)

NX new livery 2 by DD02 BUS, on Flickr

A very attractive livery but............it really doesn't matter how the buses are painted if they are immediately covered with multicoloured branding stickers does it.

[Liverpool Street]

@arrifirststage ... You really hate branding, don't you? Haha

Maybe another new style of branding for the new livery... Simpler the better in my opinion; like the Pershore Road livery of old.

[Mike K]

Make both of those blues darker, and the swoop cream, and that would make a great West Midlands livery, instead of the maroon / red.

[Trident 4609]

An updated article on the NX website has appeared for this years order:

http://nxbus.co.uk/west-midlands/news/transport-bosses-announce-timetable-for-record-investment

It mentions that the first new buses will be on the road in March with the last buses to enter service being the Platinum Vehicles in the summer

[DavieDD2]

Sounds like Dundee might get some more cascaded 15 year old Presidents them, woo hoo! (they'd still be better than our wrecked Geminis)

[Solo1]

An updated article on the NX website has appeared for this years order:

http://nxbus.co.uk/west-midlands/news/transport-bosses-announce-timetable-for-record-investment

It mentions that the first new buses will be on the road in March with the last buses to enter service being the Platinum Vehicles in the summer

where will the first batch of new buses be going to if its been decided yet