New Arriva Logo

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RE: New Arriva Logo

(21/02/2017 17:52)Y474 KNF Wrote:  The predominantly white livery isn't out of choice. The reason why is because it makes it easier for the next franchise operator to change the livery on each unit by simply changing the vinyls which are applied to the base white livery. Changing vinyls will be considerably cheaper and less time consuming than repainting every single unit in the fleet

It's the reason for a white base, not a whole white livery. A vinyl livery can easily cover an entire vehicle and be replaced quickly. See TPE with the rate at which they're currently turning out 185s having removed the old vinyls and applied the new ones - they'll be white/grey base underneath.

Regardless, it's not applicable to the bus industry as vehicles get painted as opposed to vinyled anyway. I also have doubts as to whether there's any desire to have similar liveries between Northern and Arriva's bus operations - they don't want to encourage the CMA.