(23 Jun 2014, 9:17 pm)Robert wrote Woah i think you are missing the point. Not all of the ew deckers will be stored at outstations. When going past the depot, i also seem to notice all 3 olympians parked up there so unless it has a job up here after its job down at Byker then im not quite sure what you mean.
Going back to the registrations:
Just because the vehicle has an R at the beginning of its personalised registration it doesnt mean that thats its actual registration starts with that letter (They are both Irish so, in this case will be hard to tell as im not used to Irish Registrations so, for example, S2 and S4 STX, they my have the letter S at the beginning but we (or most of us) know that they are actually a V reg vehicle and by their looks and style inside, R6 and R7 do, to me, look like the elder vehicles.
With the red numbers, you can put an older plate on a vehicle, but you can't put a newer plate on it. Ie. The newest number plate a 1998 decker could carry would be a R plate, but it could carry an A plate.
From the log books, they were built in 1998 and registered in the UK in 2009.
K2 is a 1997 registeted vehicle.
The 3rd olympian ends up back in the depot between works as the driver has other duties at the moment that sometimes require him to come back to the depot.