Arriva North East

[kuyoyo]

RE: Arriva North East

(17/02/2014 21:00)bramptontrev Wrote:  

(02/02/2014 21:10)Metroline1511 Wrote:  

(02/02/2014 21:03)kuyoyo Wrote:  The 5/5a and X4/4 won't be converted to Sapphire until August. As for the leather-seated OmniCities, they won't be leather seated come the end of the year.

This means that these OmniCities will follow in the footsteps of Olympuses with Arriva in Yorkshire that had its leather seats replaced with standard moquette. Admittedly, early days of leather seating were in a sense experimental.

As an aside, with route 4 and X4 going Sapphire, I wonder whether the Temsa Avenues face early withdrawal? My rides on these buses last May were these routes (or maybe similar 4a and X3).

Interesting that these OmniCities are having the leather seats replaced. On the 685 Newcastle <> Carlisle the OmniCities have become known as the 'slippery seat' buses. So how many OmniCities and for which depots and routes are the seats being changed?

All of the OmniCities are down to be refurnished as the oldest will be 9 years old this year and their interiors (not to mention exteriors) are looking well worn.

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The Teesside service changes mean the following allocation changes (although not all have happened yet):

Stockton: Prestige 4045 moves onto reserve following the drop of Stockton's PVR by 1
Redcar: with a PVR drop of 3, MPD 1739 has entered reserve while recently transferred Dart SLF 1309 and MPD 1737 are transferred to Darlington
Darlington: in addition to the mentioned Darts, MPD 1724 is reinstated as cover for accident-damaged EcoCity 4809. The transferred Darts allow Solos 2827 and 2828 (although some sources quote the 2 as 2828 and 2829) to the paint shop for repaint into Whitby Park & Ride base livery (as yet unknown)
Ashington: Lowlander 7437 returns here from Jesmond in exchange for DAF ALX400 7467