(06 Nov 2015, 5:40 pm)GX03 SVC wrote 7518 has interior branding and has X21/X22 announcements programmed in.

You'd expect 7518 to have the announcements programmed for the X21/X22 because these services are the only Sapphire services at Ashington.

I would imagine 1595 has the announcements programmed for service 22 as this batch of vehicles are allocated to service 22. It's only recently that Go North East has uploaded several media files from different routes onto vehicles so that it doesn't matter which vehicle is allocated, there will always be announcements.

It is probably a learning curve for Arriva, as it has been for Go North East (difference is that we're a bit further ahead as we were the first operator in the North East to introduce Next Stop Announcements to our services). I understand Hanover recently came up north to give their managers some training, so possibly something Arriva will improve on in the future.