First bus Yorkshire Rider livery

[Bayum]

Noticed a bus on the '1' route heading to Beeston today. The standout of this particular bus was it was in a green and cream Yorkshire Rider livery.

I half expected it to be an 'old' bus, but it looked in keeping with the Gemini Eclipse range.

What's the sitch?

 

[fgwrich]

I presume this is the livery your referring to? (Complete with captions with the details as to the First 'Heritage' repaints)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/6228_leeds/16235219373

https://www.flickr.com/photos/76935...TPg-9aSGpH-7KVaSY-e6Roc7-p4Egax-7ZNTuJ-78vdqw

 

[Welshman]

I'm pleased that First is honouring people involved in the past business in this way. It gives a sense of history and tradition in rapidly-changing times, and no doubt also gives the relatives of those honoured a sense of pride.

I was interested to recently see in Halifax Bus Station First Huddersfield & Calderdale's Gemini repainted in the old Halifax colours and named in memory of Geoffrey Hilditch [the one referred to by Scott Poole in his commentary on one of the above pictures].

I suspect that brought back memories of a great engineer and General Manager in the Halifax area in the 1960-70s.

Incidentally, I thought the old Halifax livery sat well on the modern dd.

 

[theblackwatch]

I saw the Halifax one at Dewsbury Bus Rally earlier this month, and thought that looked good to. A photo is attached.

First have done a few South Yorkshire ones in traditional colours too.

 

[Welshman]

Thank you for the photo.

The bus had passed me before I had chance to get my phone out!

 

[mic]

glad they have put a bus into Yorkshire rider livery was one of my fav firms for travelling on hope they put one in Gold Rider livery

 

[northwichcat]

They've done the same in Manchester.

One slight problem though is they've let the Lancashire United branded bus stray off the routes it's supposed to be on and there's a more recently established Lancashire United bus company. One day in January I saw a First Bus in historic Lancashire United livery on the same road in Manchester as an X41 bus operated by the present day Lancashire United - whoops!