This is brilliant news!

I hope the North East gain some new vehicles out of this, or at least cascades from other regions. I like Enviro 200's, but I'm not sure if these are good replacements for the MAN's. I avoid the 4 in Sunderland like the plague at the weekend because they just get too squashed. I think Sunderland has the number of passengers on some routes to warrant double deckers someday; 16&20 spring to mind in particular!

Alexander Dennis have recently released a list of their new orders, but I'm not sure of the time-scale of these.

A total of 532 new generation Enviro500s have been sold to bus operators in Hong Kong, all of which will be delivered in the next 18 months. KMB has ordered 370, while Citybus is to receive 156 and six will go to MTRC. In addition, a further 109 current generation ADL vehicles, involving a mix of Enviro500, Enviro400 and Enviro200 models, will also be delivered to a range of Hong Kong bus operators in the same timeframe, taking total deliveries into the territory by end-March 2015 to 641.
All 150 stop-start ADL hybrid-electric vehicles will be delivered between now and the summer of 2013. Operators receiving them are Metroline (19), National Express Dundee (9), National Express Wolverhampton (12), Stagecoach Manchester (40), Stagecoach Sheffield (19), London United (29), Go-Ahead London (18) and FirstGroup (4).

The 175 midi buses to be built by ADL in the remainder of this year are destined for a large number of operators, including Reay’s Coaches, Mid Wales Travel, CEN Group, Tates Travel, Watts Travel, Whitelaws Coaches, Ace Travel, Go Goodwins, Stephenson’s of Essex, Compass Travel, Manchester Airport, A2B Travel, Houston Travel, Little Coaches, Hornsby Travel, Repton’s Coaches and Lewis Y Llan.