(15 Mar 2014, 9:57 pm)tyresmoke wrote Yes 3 have arrived, 7484 at Ashington, 7485 is due to go to Ashington but is currently at Redcar for trial on X93 while they fix some issues with originally delivered 7494

I would imagine the transferred vehicles will remain in TGM / Nexus (as appropriate) livery - the majority of the services are up for tender in the summer I believe so I guess (though don't know for sure) that they won't bother repainting them in case the opportunity arises to dispose of them.

Cheers! Not wanting to get off-topic too much, but is it worth me trying to get lucky with 7485 next Saturday or are we expecting it to have buggered off up North again by then?

Can understand that the ones in Nexus livery would remain in that livery, but if memory serves they have an 07-reg Nimbus? Be mad to get rid of that when they've got older buses which could be replaced first - unless it's down to the availability of parts with them being a non-standard Arriva vehicle type?