(15 Oct 2016, 12:30 pm)beefcake wrote As far as I'm aware, only 5211 got fully repainted, minus the route vinyls along the top. One of the others (5204 I think) only has a couple of pawprint vinyls near side and a couple have bits of orange paint visible
(15 Oct 2016, 12:33 pm)S813 FVK wrote 5204 was also repainted from Prince Bishops. I think 5206 is the solar you are on about.
Yeah, sure there was more than one ex-purple Solar that ended up black.
(15 Oct 2016, 1:09 pm)cbma06 wrote there was some solars got painted into prince bishop livery when the service got extended to shields, and then shortly after the streetlites arrived.
It just seems two minutes since those Solar's went black.
I think the Solar's that were painted purple for the Shields extension were that colour for about a year.