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617 'Wally Swift' sets off for Southwell on 2.10.20
I think the lilac line version of the 2017 livery, although passable (if not great) on the E400 Cities, looks incredibly dull on these Pathfinder buses.
I get that NCT would want to integrate services into their line colours, but out of the city area the 'lilac line' integration becomes redundant since the 100 (I mean 26...) is the only Nottingham > Southwell bus and the tickets are different once you get out of the city boundary.
I used to consider the Pathfinder 100 fairly equal with the South Notts 1, as while both brands carried the same 'network' livery as the rest of NCT's services, both retained their original route numbers and both had the colour branding associated with the traditional colours (navy for South Notts and white for Pathfinder, with a tiny bit of red and blue). The South Notts service remains a navy bus with the number 1 on the front to this day, but somehow Pathfinder has gone from a white bus with a 100 on the front to a lilac bus with a 26 on the front (via a maroon bus with a 100 on the front, weirdly). It doesn't even say lilac line on it, it's just lilac because it leaves the city a similar way to the lilac line routes.
So I don't know what it's all about really, or why the people of Southwell would need to catch the randomly numbered and drab looking lilac bus to Nottingham as opposed to a bus that was the same colour it always used to be and was numbered 100 because it went all the way to the City.
Also, unlike with the Omnidekkas and the Versas (but not the Omnilinks for some reason) there isn't a 26 vehicle named Richard Whitehead.
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617 'Wally Swift' sets off for Southwell on 2.10.20
I think the lilac line version of the 2017 livery, although passable (if not great) on the E400 Cities, looks incredibly dull on these Pathfinder buses.
I get that NCT would want to integrate services into their line colours, but out of the city area the 'lilac line' integration becomes redundant since the 100 (I mean 26...) is the only Nottingham > Southwell bus and the tickets are different once you get out of the city boundary.
I used to consider the Pathfinder 100 fairly equal with the South Notts 1, as while both brands carried the same 'network' livery as the rest of NCT's services, both retained their original route numbers and both had the colour branding associated with the traditional colours (navy for South Notts and white for Pathfinder, with a tiny bit of red and blue). The South Notts service remains a navy bus with the number 1 on the front to this day, but somehow Pathfinder has gone from a white bus with a 100 on the front to a lilac bus with a 26 on the front (via a maroon bus with a 100 on the front, weirdly). It doesn't even say lilac line on it, it's just lilac because it leaves the city a similar way to the lilac line routes.
So I don't know what it's all about really, or why the people of Southwell would need to catch the randomly numbered and drab looking lilac bus to Nottingham as opposed to a bus that was the same colour it always used to be and was numbered 100 because it went all the way to the City.
Also, unlike with the Omnidekkas and the Versas (but not the Omnilinks for some reason) there isn't a 26 vehicle named Richard Whitehead.