(30 Jul 2024, 11:42 pm)F114TML wrote That was just one of the many trial versions they did. It's not botched although some OpCos do paint the lights black (in the same way some don't paint black between the windows like 27688), the panel between them is still blue.
When I went to Silverstone it was interesting to see all the little variations of different OpCos.
Ah never realised they were official trials, I always just assumed it was like Arriva and it's Interurban livery who had a design but by the time it got to the painters, it got lost in translation. Some of the versions around of that were truely dreadful.
Mind they definitely picked the wrong version, that version above was the much better one imo.