Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runways: ‘Scene’ in Sutton Coldfield. ‘National Express West Midlands’ (NXWM) 1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Monday 24 June 2019

‘Scene’ in Sutton Coldfield. ‘National Express West Midlands’ (NXWM) 1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

A busy little town with all the bus stands on the streets. There can be problems with deep shade taking photographs on a sunny day.

It would seem that all West Midlands area operators are soon to lose their individual liveries in favour of a West Midlands livery.

This is pretty much what happens in London where a very large percentage of the bus must be painted in red no matter what the normal livery of the operating company is.

See blog dated 30/11/2018 for an example of the new livery.

Speaking personally, I think this is a backward step. I prefer the form of colour route branding within a recognisable livery layout such as is used by ‘trentbarton’.

The intending passenger can tell from half a mile away what service is approaching and because the livery follows a ‘standard’ form of application it is obvious who the operator is.

SN66 WDP ‘NXWM Platinum’ No. 6810 ‘X3, X4, X5. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E40D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The bus carries the name ‘Bethany Grace’.