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New Expressway livery

  • 03-07-2014 11:02pm
    #1
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Bus Éireann are introducing a new Expressway livery (as seen in their current TV advertising campaign) - mostly all over red, with touches of grey. Very little white to be seen. While Dublin Bus have changed their livery several times, this is the first time Bus Éireann have made any sort of radical change to their colour scheme (although it has gone through some restyling).

    Also sees the return of Expressway as the primary brand as it was in the 1980s - on the formation of Bus Éireann it got relegated to small text beside the Bus Éireann logo and hasn't featured at all, except in print material, for the last decade or so.


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  • #2
    Csalem
    Registered Users Posts: 2,886 ✭✭✭Csalem


    SE 20 and SE 15 have been painted so far. Here is SE 20:
    14421663166_75ee8d5f1f_c.jpgSE 20 St. Mobhi Road 17/06/14 by Csalem's Lot, on Flickr


  • #3
    Rawr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭Rawr


    It does look very nice, but from a distance I wouldn't recognise it as a Bus Eireann bus at all. I'd easily assume it was another private operator.

    I think they need to put the Irish Setter in there somewhere. Then it would seem more 'Bus Eireann-ish' to me :)


  • #4
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    It is there but is almost invisible - it's on the door in white which doesn't contrast well with the grey.


  • #5
    Rawr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭Rawr


    icdg wrote: »
    It is there but is almost invisible - it's on the door in white which doesn't contrast well with the grey.

    Oh yea..I see it now. True, it's nearly invisible. If they put it somewhere on the red part of the livery it would stand out better.


  • #6
    serfboard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,675 ✭✭✭serfboard


    icdg wrote: »
    the return of Expressway as the primary brand
    All the easier to (break it up and) flog it off ... in my conspiracy theorist opinion ...


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  • #7
    gbob
    Registered Users Posts: 522 ✭✭✭gbob


    serfboard wrote: »
    All the easier to (break it up and) flog it off ... in my conspiracy theorist opinion ...

    My thoughts exactly.


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