Progress on Display

Its easy to forget just how much work goes on behind the scenes preparing buses for service. This is easier to cope with when you don't have a large scale fleet replacement programme in place with lots of buses being acquired in a short space of time.

Western Greyhound are currently adding a large number of Dennis Darts to their fleet replacing many of the long serving Mercedes Varios and some Optare Solos. These join a small fleet of Dennis Tridents which have been acquired as well.

All of these buses need to be repainted which is why the fleet have adopted this plain green livery for now rather than have anything flashy. They can churn out the buses into all over green nice and quickly in order to get the fleet back into one livery. They can always look at enhancing the design at some stage in the future!

Of course another big job that needs doing is programming the destination displays on all of these 'new' buses. Bobby Darch has been working hard to design the displays for WG and program the buses which need it. Hopefully the days of paper displays will soon be a distant memory. Thanks to Bobby we can bring you a small selection of photos taken while the work was in progress ...

©Bobby Darch

Sorry for the lack of posting for the last few days, One post was planned but didn't happen due to computer issues, but then I needed a break!
Hopefully back to normal again now

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