(03 Aug 2018, 11:26 am)Stuartphin1639 wrote Pulsars look so much better in the previous version than interurban, apparently Arriva have stopped putting vehicles into new livery as it costs too much, it’s like Darlington 1602-1614 are in sapphire new livery where as 1514/5/6/7534/35/36/37/38/40 are all in old style, as someone said I can’t remember if it was on here or Facebook, the repaint of 2817 looks like it’s a in house job rather than been sent away, as it’s a proper bodge job, if it was sent away then people think that it would have got new livery anyway

When the new[est] livery was revealed the official line was it would be ‘introduced on a low cost & evolutionary basis’, i.e. new deliveries and repaints when only already required - rather than repainting the fleet at once. 

I imagine many vehicle will see out their life in older liveries. Much like First - in the Potteries much of the fleet is in Barbie, which is almost a heritage livery by now!