First Glasgow Volvo B9TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini
Olden but no longer golden.....
Poor 37205 (KSU391) must be a regular visitor to the paint booth at First Glasgow’s Caledonia Depot as it’s possibly the only vehicle to have been painted in two branded liveries and then been painted back out of them into standard livery. The bus - which was delivered as SF57MKA - originally was refurbished, re-registered and rebranded for the U1/U2 services for the University of the West of Scotland in Lanarkshire and received a red front.
Sadly that service didn’t prove as popular as expected, and so it was then repainted again with a gold front for the X1 Hamilton - Glasgow Express.
However as a result of COVID-19, First have now elected to withdraw the X1, along with some other routes such as the X2 and 32 services. It’s now been repainted in standard livery, but unusually - for a First Glasgow bus at least - it retains the large Glasgow fleet name. And it looks a whole lot better for it as a result.
First Glasgow Volvo B9TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini
Olden but no longer golden.....
Poor 37205 (KSU391) must be a regular visitor to the paint booth at First Glasgow’s Caledonia Depot as it’s possibly the only vehicle to have been painted in two branded liveries and then been painted back out of them into standard livery. The bus - which was delivered as SF57MKA - originally was refurbished, re-registered and rebranded for the U1/U2 services for the University of the West of Scotland in Lanarkshire and received a red front.
Sadly that service didn’t prove as popular as expected, and so it was then repainted again with a gold front for the X1 Hamilton - Glasgow Express.
However as a result of COVID-19, First have now elected to withdraw the X1, along with some other routes such as the X2 and 32 services. It’s now been repainted in standard livery, but unusually - for a First Glasgow bus at least - it retains the large Glasgow fleet name. And it looks a whole lot better for it as a result.