Ok, they changed the fabric from monochrome/purple to colour – you going to make a complaint?
I think they’re just too different colour schemes – one black and white, and the other colour
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After First Bus left London, the garages and fleet were split up and sold to various operators including GoAhead. First’s fleet has grey/purple interiors with light blue grab poles, their seats were purple and blue to match.
When GoAhead acquired these vehicles, they changed the seat moquette to match their company. However, the bright blue seats don’t fit with the interior, and it was cheaper to order a new colour variation of the seat moquette than to refurbish the entire interior to match the rest of the fleet. Hence the WVN’s (Wright Gemini 2 – the bus type pictured here), SEN’s (Enviro 200) and EN’s (Enviro 400) had the ‘muted down’ grey/purple/pale blue seats.
The new seat (the bright blue one) is the standard GoAhead and likely used to replace a damaged seat cover to get the bus back out in service quickly.
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Ok, they changed the fabric from monochrome/purple to colour – you going to make a complaint?
I think they’re just too different colour schemes – one black and white, and the other colour
This post could only be seen in the big metropolitan centres’ sub Reddit
After First Bus left London, the garages and fleet were split up and sold to various operators including GoAhead. First’s fleet has grey/purple interiors with light blue grab poles, their seats were purple and blue to match.
When GoAhead acquired these vehicles, they changed the seat moquette to match their company. However, the bright blue seats don’t fit with the interior, and it was cheaper to order a new colour variation of the seat moquette than to refurbish the entire interior to match the rest of the fleet. Hence the WVN’s (Wright Gemini 2 – the bus type pictured here), SEN’s (Enviro 200) and EN’s (Enviro 400) had the ‘muted down’ grey/purple/pale blue seats.
The new seat (the bright blue one) is the standard GoAhead and likely used to replace a damaged seat cover to get the bus back out in service quickly.
First Bus interior example (credit: Matt’s Transport Photography): https://www.flickr.com/photos/143600374@N05/45717064392/
Go Ahead standard interior example (credit: MrMaguire): https://www.flickr.com/photos/77468444@N06/41904879101/
GoAhead Ex-First interior example (credit: Matt’s Transport Photography): https://www.flickr.com/photos/143600374@N05/25765838607/in/photostream/
Much better. Old seats just noise
I thought this post was gonna be about the place in Farringdon 😅