(25 Sep 2013, 1:02 pm)Acky81 wrote Just past 8309 drifter destination blind is flashing like mad how are passengers meant to read it. Sort it out go north east

(25 Sep 2013, 1:08 pm)Andreos1 wrote Two more Citaros on their way. Just overtaken them on A1 (reg ending Y and O).
They turned off at Durham services if anyone is in area and wanting photo.

Got one as I passed them

(25 Sep 2013, 1:02 pm)Acky81 wrote Just past 8309 drifter destination blind is flashing like mad how are passengers meant to read it. Sort it out go north east

(25 Sep 2013, 12:56 pm)cbma06 wrote Just been on the Nexus website and went into journey planner, put a date of 5/11/13 between Houghton and Bournmoor, and it comes up with service number 4.

Looks like it has a journey time of 1 hour between Houghton and Heworth, at present the M1 takes 50 minutes between Houghton and Heworth. unless the service 4 has been giving extra running time.

(25 Sep 2013, 1:11 pm)Daniel wrote I think you're a little lost, A1...
You're meant to be spotting these Mercs in Doncaster, not in Durham!

(25 Sep 2013, 1:08 pm)Andreos1 wrote Two more Citaros on their way. Just overtaken them on A1 (reg ending Y and O).
They turned off at Durham services if anyone is in area and wanting photo.

Got one as I passed them

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(25 Sep 2013, 2:37 pm)Adam Malarkey wrote Just from reading the info on here, there has been 6 Citaros already Delivered, I think all 11 will be here by Friday with ease.

The other Citaro that Andreos1 Mentioned ending in "O" I believe is BX63 BDO, Just from looking at the other Reg Plates so far. While the other as you can see from the photo is BX63 BCY.

I think we maybe seeing a little pattern developing here regarding the Reg Plates

(25 Sep 2013, 2:46 pm)Michael wrote I agree wouldnt be suprised to see all 11 here by Friday.
Any idea what fleet numbers they will be?
cant renember seen a post about it.

(25 Sep 2013, 2:40 pm)Daniel wrote Forgive me, but what pattern is emerging?

BX63 BCU and BX63 BCO
BX63 BDU and BX63 BDE
BX63 BDO and BX63 BDY

(25 Sep 2013, 2:49 pm)Acky81 wrote Daniel gne should know about the destination blind it's been like this for weeks but they are choosing to ignore it

(25 Sep 2013, 2:49 pm)Acky81 wrote Daniel gne should know about the destination blind it's been like this for weeks but they are choosing to ignore it

(25 Sep 2013, 2:49 pm)Adam Malarkey wrote If you look closely you notice it, but I will explain anyway.

BX63 BCU and BX63 BDU - Then you have BX63 BCO and BX13 BDO, So from that the difference in the Reg Plates is one Letter in the Middle being Different and the End Letter being the same.

So from that you can probably predict what the other reg plates are going to be before they even arrive.

(25 Sep 2013, 3:08 pm)Daniel wrote I think that's completely coincidental. It's not a private registration plate, so Go North East haven't chosen what the registration number will be. Take GNE's "TEN" branded B9s for example - 6071 is registered NK62 FAA and 6072 is registered NK62 FBA, the rest of the batch doesn't follow this pattern at all.

(25 Sep 2013, 3:08 pm)Daniel wrote I think that's completely coincidental. It's not a private registration plate, so Go North East haven't chosen what the registration number will be. Take GNE's "TEN" branded B9s for example - 6071 is registered NK62 FAA and 6072 is registered NK62 FBA, the rest of the batch doesn't follow this pattern at all.

(25 Sep 2013, 2:48 pm)Daniel wrote 5358 upwards, I believe.
We've already had a 5357 (the Merc that was bought for spares).

We'll hopefully be able to match registrations to their fleet numbers soon.

(25 Sep 2013, 3:16 pm)Adam Malarkey wrote Yeah it is probably just coincidence, but nevertheless a good spot by myself which would of went unnoticed otherwise, as for the "Ten" 6074 NK62 FDM and 6075 NK62 FDN also follow this little pattern.

(25 Sep 2013, 3:26 pm)Andreos1 wrote When buying a new car, the purchaser is given a list of available number plates.
Obviously that list isn't unlimited and is specific to that dealer/manufacturer.

I am not 100& sure, but I am pretty certain there are no specifics about whether a registration is car, bike, truck or bus.
For example, I am aware of a number of cars with the registration Vxxx DNL.
Arriva still have a few MPD's (I think) in this series and passed on some to GNE a few years back, which didn't last long.

Ideally, GNE will want a batch of vehicles to have a sequence, but this won't always be possible.
You just need to look at the fleet list to spot the odd random plate or missing letter.

(25 Sep 2013, 3:36 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote A good spot? There's no pattern here or with the Ten. As Daniel said its just a coincidence that the batch includes BCO and BDO etc. There must be countless examples of buses in a batch carrying matching final characters in their registrations without following a prescribed sequence and this certainly doesn't enable prediction of the rest of the series to be allocated. Often it seems they just take/receive the registrations that are available in order based on the first five characters - so in this case BX63B--. There were presumably no other BX63BC- available, so they're being allocated from BX63BD- and when they run out will move on to BX63BE-. The only reason we'd see, for example, BX63BEO would be if all of the available ones in sequence before that were unavailable.

Incidentally, does anyone know why these lot have BX registrations? Have they been diverted from another intended allocation or are all of GNE new deliveries registered through Birmingham now?

(25 Sep 2013, 3:41 pm)Andreos1 wrote No idea - does Coventry have its own code or is Birmingham the nearest? The Gemini's were 'North'