New Expressway livery

icdg

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.

Csalem

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

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

icdg

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

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.

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 ...

gbob

serfboard wrote: »

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

My thoughts exactly.