(29 May 2014, 1:16 pm)Dan wrote As most of you will know from a similar thread in the Go North East section of the forum, we are currently trying to put together a history for each of the vehicles in the Arriva North East, Go North East and Stagecoach North East fleets.
If you can contribute towards this for Arriva North East, do post below. I'd prefer it if you had dates in terms of month and year in which these movements have taken place.
Ta!
(14 Jul 2014, 6:43 pm)Roland Pratt wrote Shame there's gaps in the service vehicle info already. Someone who works for the company must have the info, before it is forever lost in the mists of time like details of the AEC Matadors!
(30 Jan 2015, 8:02 am)Dan wrote A further 48 vehicles have now been completed, following the completion of all vehicles new in 2010.
Total completed - 223 / 587... Not far from the half-way mark (which isn't too bad given that I started just 12 hours ago!)
(30 Jan 2015, 8:55 pm)Dan wrote A further 69 (Fozz - behave!) vehicles have now been completed, following the completion of all vehicles new in 2009.7601 - 7615 were all delivered Nov/Dec 2009 in Arriva Interurban livery
Total completed - 292 / 587.
A plea for help to save me a job:
If anyone has dates of repaints (aside from recent MAX / Sapphire repaints), could you please list them here or upload a document as an attachment if you record this information yourself? Until I looked, I had no idea that the current Quorum Express Geminis were delivered in standard interurban livery.
(14 Feb 2015, 11:43 am)atlantean542 wrote 7601 - 7615 were all delivered Nov/Dec 2009 in Arriva Interurban liveryVery many thanks!
7601, 7602, 7603 went into Quorum livery Aug 2010
7604, 7605 went into Quorum livery Oct 2010
7606, 7607 went into Quorum livery Dec 2010
7608 went into Quorum livery Jan 2011
on my flickr I have uploaded some photos of 7601-7608 in Arriva Interurban livery and 7602, 7603 in the orginal Quorum livery
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99435494@N02/
Hope this info will help you
(01 Mar 2015, 9:09 am)Dan wrote As Liam forgot to up the character limit for the "Vehicle History" section of the fleet lists for Arriva, I've discovered that each and every fleet item that I completed previously cut off after 1,000 characters. Yes, I'm going to throttle him next time I see him!
I'm now going back to the start, and I'll have to complete everything again.
(01 Mar 2015, 9:58 am)Tommy_1581 wrote Murder him
(01 Mar 2015, 10:31 am)Dan wrote Thankfully, it was just the ones with the longer captions that needed to be amended, and this was most of the newer vehicles as there was a bit of a write-up about the Micro-Hybrid Streetlite, Sapphire, MAX, etc.
Still have to fix:
..but that shouldn't take too long. Also need to amend 2862 - 2871 as I've got them down as being delivered in "Nexus" livery - don't ask!
- 1320 - 1328
- 1440 - 1443
- 7511 - 7517
Most of the vehicles new in 2013 / 2014 also have photographs on the main fleet item page now. I'll work on completing vehicles new in 2008 today. I'm already up to 2816.
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(01 Mar 2015, 8:28 pm)Dan wrote It's been a month since our last update, and after the earlier posts, it seemed appropriate that I made some more progress on completing our history archive for each member of the fleet. Following the completion of all vehicles new in 2006, 2007 and 2008, a further 76 vehicles in the fleet have complete "Vehicle History" section notes. Including the vehicles for disposal (which will not gain a vehicle history section) and the ex-London Volvo B7TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles acquired last year which already have a complete vehicle history section archive, 426 / 587 (73%) have been completed.
With that in mind - still to complete:
* I'd imagine that all of the minibuses / midibuses / single deckers in this batch are likely to be disposed of soon, so I will only complete the vehicle history section for the DAF DB250RS/Alexander ALX400 vehicles.
- New in 2000 - 12 vehicles*
- New in 2001 - 13 vehicles**
- New in 2002 - 1 vehicle
- New in 2003 - 5 vehicles
- New in 2004 - 1 vehicle
- New in 2005 - 38 vehicles
** Optare Solo M850/Optare 2804 and 2805 are likely to be disposed of soon, so I will not complete these vehicles.
All vehicles new prior to 2000 are either non-DDA or due for disposal soon, so I will not complete these vehicles either. This means that there's not very many left to go!
(01 Mar 2015, 8:39 pm)mb134 wrote With regards to 7501-13, I thought that these were delivered in December 2007/January 2008, the fleetlists state they were delivered in the June of 2008?
(01 Mar 2015, 8:28 pm)Dan wrote It's been a month since our last update, and after the earlier posts, it seemed appropriate that I made some more progress on completing our history archive for each member of the fleet. Following the completion of all vehicles new in 2006, 2007 and 2008, a further 76 vehicles in the fleet have complete "Vehicle History" section notes. Including the vehicles for disposal (which will not gain a vehicle history section) and the ex-London Volvo B7TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles acquired last year which already have a complete vehicle history section archive, 426 / 587 (73%) have been completed.
With that in mind - still to complete:
* I'd imagine that all of the minibuses / midibuses / single deckers in this batch are likely to be disposed of soon, so I will only complete the vehicle history section for the DAF DB250RS/Alexander ALX400 vehicles.
- New in 2000 - 12 vehicles*
- New in 2001 - 13 vehicles**
- New in 2002 - 1 vehicle
- New in 2003 - 5 vehicles
- New in 2004 - 1 vehicle
- New in 2005 - 38 vehicles
** Optare Solo M850/Optare 2804 and 2805 are likely to be disposed of soon, so I will not complete these vehicles.
All vehicles new prior to 2000 are either non-DDA or due for disposal soon, so I will not complete these vehicles either. This means that there's not very many left to go!