EARLY FIRST AND PRESENT DAY FIRST ANY DIFFERENCE

VP85 Volvo B6 M585 ANG later 48085 when new in around 1995 on Bramford Road, photographer anon .

This was a time when First regional liveries still existed and was based i believe based on the old Grampian Regional Transport livery, later on we had the much better Anglia Yellow base with Red at the bottom which was quite a striking livery although typically First never repainted many, the only complete batches to be done i believe were the B6 plaxton pointers and the Ex Beeline Olympians F172-5 LBL and i believe a National Greenway which is now preserved ex Carters of course.

69430 at Tower Ramparts on the 21/8/12

Coming bang up to date with this livery and how times have changed not a particular favourite with many people, too me it doesn't catch the eye in the same way as IB'S purple and green livery. Travelling on First today you can see how they have lost their way, presentation of the fleet lacks in terms of cleanliness and vehicle age, although Firsts driving staff do their best considering what they given and in general they are very friendly to my eyes! The mix of buses continues on the town routes and i do have make one correction in that seems to be 8 Buses on the 55/56/60/61 routes yesterday Darts 42431/43460, Scanias 65532/90/65675 and Volvo B7RLES 66850/69008/66850, today Dart 43460, Scanias 65531/32/88/89 and 65690 with Volvo B7RLES 69005 and 69433.