Ahead of service 39 being upgraded to an Optare Versa allocation, this vehicle has been repainted into Go North East's corporate livery with 'Northern' fleet names.
Go North East stated in a customer consultation to review the 9 and X3 services that the company wished to increase the frequency of service 9 (Sunderland - Boldon - Jarrow - North Shields) to every 20 minutes across the whole route and introduce route branding to the service. Customers did not favour these plans, and alternative service changes being introduced meant that the plan to brand 5247, 5248, 5249 and 5274 did not go ahead. Instead, these vehicles have gained large 'Northern' fleet names.
Allocated fleet number 9132 during its time at Go North East, this vehicle has now entered service at Gateshead Depot. Following a period of driver familiarisation, this vehicle will see primary allocation to "Citylink" service 58.
This vehicle has gained branding for "Cobalt Connect" service 19. This brand replaces the "Route 19" brand and the former allocation on service 19 will be displaced as a result.
This vehicle has been repainted into a plain green base livery, later gaining promotional branding for the "Festival of the North East" event. The Festival of the North East is a month long cultural celebration running throughout the whole of the region during June 2013. The festival embraces arts, sciences, creative industries and heritage and serves partly as a fanfare to the arrival in the region of the Lindisfarne Gospels in July 2013. The event also brings together large scale cultural institutions, community organisations, creative businesses and individual artists and practitioners; playful, inventive and engaging – this diverse and ambitious festival will be one of... see more
Ahead of its entry into service, this vehicle has gained "TEN" branding. It has also surrendered its original registration of NK62FMC due to its delayed delivery, instead gaining registration NK13EJO.
This vehicle, which carries a silver base livery, has arrived into the Go North East fleet. It features Wi-Fi, power sockets, and Next Stop Announcement screens, and is currently being prepared for service at Saltmeadows Road Depot. Once prepared for service, it is expected that the vehicle will be allocated to Winlaton Depot, for use on the "TEN" group of services. It is the final vehicle in the batch, delivered a month after the rest of the batch, due to an issue which had to be rectified at Wrights prior to delivery.
Having been acquired by Damory Coaches in November 2011, it has remained in Plymouth Citybus' base livery since. It has now been repainted into Damory Coaches' corporate livery.
This vehicle has transferred from Hexham Depot to Gateshead, where it will be allocated to "Crusader" service 27, displacing the Volvo B10BLE/Wright Renown vehicles currently allocated.
This vehicle has transferred from Winlaton Depot to Gateshead, where it will be allocated to "Crusader" service 27, displacing the Volvo B10BLE/Wright Renown vehicles currently allocated.