(17 Dec 2015, 10:32 pm)citaro5284 wrote Yup, and as discussed on a facebook group earlier, the vehicles are for:
X21, Solo's for Hexham and Percy Main and Streetlites for the 20/20A
Although the X12 is no real threat at the moment, I can understand GNE keeping the order quiet for this particular reason:
If Arriva were to get a sniff that the Pronto was to get an upgrade, they could've ended up replacing the 57 plate Sapphires at Ashington resulting in them 9 (7501-7509) being moved to Belmont / Stockton (they would just have to maintain the deckers elsewhere in Stockton's case unless things have changed) meaning a Sapphire X12 service.
Don't know how Arriva think but that is one of the ways which they could've reacted had the order been leaked too soon.