Arriva North East: Latest News & Discussion - July 2015
Arriva North East: Latest News & Discussion - July 2015
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Well now Arriva have launched it I suppose I can tell you all a bit more about it
Frequenta will be our new high frequency brand, to be launched initially in Darlington but will eventually be used at other depots around the North East. Services to be branded in Darlington are 2, 3/3a/3b, 4, 9/10, 13a/13b
You'll have noticed that all of the Solo's have been recently gaining repaints minus the cowhorn - all of these will be used for the new brand, along with the Ecocity gas vehicles have been losing their logos, they will be gaining branding for Frequenta service 2
2843 is the first to gain the brand, shown below (used on services 3/3a/3b today).
It is generically branded for all routes, though I understand all of the branded buses will have the spider map on the rear, regardless of branded route. Route specific branding will be across the top of windows, using the colours shown on the spider map, though the cowhorn (in the same swoop-style as Sapphire) will remain in sandstone, whereas I think it would be better if it was to be in route colour.
Arriva North East 2843 YJ58CAE by Scott Cooper, on Flickr
Arriva North East 2843 YJ58CAE by Scott Cooper, on Flickr
Once rolled out at Darlington, the next routes to be included are Stockton's 7 and 15, along with Redcar's 63.
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Wonder if they will continue to allocate EcoCitys on other services on Sundays?
Also wonder if Solos will continue to operate the 8/8A if all the Solos get Frequenta branding.
(06 Jul 2015, 5:35 pm)Jimmi Wonder if they will continue to allocate EcoCitys on other services on Sundays?
Also wonder if Solos will continue to operate the 8/8A if all the Solos get Frequenta branding.
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(06 Jul 2015, 5:35 pm)Jimmi Wonder if they will continue to allocate EcoCitys on other services on Sundays?
Also wonder if Solos will continue to operate the 8/8A if all the Solos get Frequenta branding.
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Frequenta looks smart, but I can't get away with the grille being painted turquoise. I'm glad they've gone with generic branding too, given the challenges that some depots seem to face keeping the correct bus on the correct route.
(06 Jul 2015, 5:54 pm)aureolin Frequenta looks smart, but I can't get away with the grille being painted turquoise. I'm glad they've gone with generic branding too, given the challenges that some depots seem to face keeping the correct bus on the correct route.
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(06 Jul 2015, 5:54 pm)aureolin Frequenta looks smart, but I can't get away with the grille being painted turquoise. I'm glad they've gone with generic branding too, given the challenges that some depots seem to face keeping the correct bus on the correct route.
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(06 Jul 2015, 5:58 pm)tyresmoke There will still be route-specific branded Solos - I'm not sure which ones will be where yet - 2852-61 are meant to be heading for the 13a/13b but other than that, I'm not sure?
(06 Jul 2015, 5:58 pm)tyresmoke There will still be route-specific branded Solos - I'm not sure which ones will be where yet - 2852-61 are meant to be heading for the 13a/13b but other than that, I'm not sure?
I'd imagine 4801-4808 would be branded for the 2.
I imagine 4809-4811 will remain unbranded as these have not lost any vinyls and the 12/12A looks to not be part of the Frequenta brand and at least doing this should decrease the changes of Frequenta branded buses working the 21/X21 and 4811 is usually allocated to the 21/X21 as it has WiFi.
(06 Jul 2015, 6:25 pm)Sparkle Ahhh, this would be the brand the 63 will gain. I've noticed less pulsars recently, either on other routes or starting to get painted?
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(06 Jul 2015, 6:25 pm)Sparkle Ahhh, this would be the brand the 63 will gain. I've noticed less pulsars recently, either on other routes or starting to get painted?
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(06 Jul 2015, 6:37 pm)Dan Yep - was two on X93s on Saturday.
Suppose it's better than a Temsa in terms of comfort - wouldn't mind having a ride of one to see what they perform like!
(06 Jul 2015, 6:37 pm)Dan Yep - was two on X93s on Saturday.
Suppose it's better than a Temsa in terms of comfort - wouldn't mind having a ride of one to see what they perform like!
(06 Jul 2015, 6:42 pm)Jimmi Tesma's aren't too bad on the X93 in terms of performance (probably not as good as the B9TLs). The seats don't perform well in terms of comfort and I say this speaking as someone who had one for the full route on one journey last year
I'd quite like to see how Pulsars perform on the X93.
(06 Jul 2015, 6:42 pm)Jimmi Tesma's aren't too bad on the X93 in terms of performance (probably not as good as the B9TLs). The seats don't perform well in terms of comfort and I say this speaking as someone who had one for the full route on one journey last year
I'd quite like to see how Pulsars perform on the X93.
(06 Jul 2015, 6:44 pm)Davie Imagine a Prestige on the X93... I can't see that working very well...
(06 Jul 2015, 6:51 pm)danpick But we can still have an ALX200 on the X93 though.
(06 Jul 2015, 6:44 pm)Davie Imagine a Prestige on the X93... I can't see that working very well...
(06 Jul 2015, 6:44 pm)Davie Imagine a Prestige on the X93... I can't see that working very well...
(06 Jul 2015, 6:57 pm)South Tyne Lad It has happened before..............Bet only a few people knew this, But there was a service years ago operated by Redcar which went to Leeds stopping at York on the way.
operated by DAF SB220s
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(06 Jul 2015, 6:57 pm)South Tyne Lad It has happened before..............Bet only a few people knew this, But there was a service years ago operated by Redcar which went to Leeds stopping at York on the way.
operated by DAF SB220s
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