Seen at the same location in Lydgate is Bee Line 677 (RGB 599M). Bee Line lowered significantly the standards of presentation of buses in Manchester and this vehicles illustrates how. It was originally in the Glasgow fleet and traces of the orange paint are visible where adverts have been removed. It then operated for London Country where it received this two-tone green livery. Only limited work has been done to give it a Bee Line identity as can be seen, with a few patches of yellow paint, mainly as a background for the fleetname. The building on the right was once one of the two co-operative stores in Lydgate. It still survives, in much altered form, as Triangle hairdressers.

Photograph courtesy of Eric Ogden.