(03 Jan 2015, 5:26 pm)Dan wrote Having seen them in the flesh, I can't believe how dreadful the application of the Arriva livery is.The blue strip between the drivers windows looks out of place, surely they should have kept the black strip there as it used to be...
It's certainly not unknown for Thorntons to mess up repaints (it irritates me to this day that they painted over the black 'strip' below the windscreen on GNE's South Tyne Versas), but that's just awful. The fact that Arriva accepted them in that state is even more worrying.
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