(05 Aug 2018, 12:38 pm)omnicity4659 wrote Would you prefer more older vehicles being reinstated to enable larger batches to be sent in for repaint?

They're always repainting buses into the new livery at Thornton's, however cost and fleet availability keeps this down to about two at a time. At present, the Geminis are having additional work done (interiors) so this will lengthen the process.

The new Arriva brand is already rolled out on a huge scale across the UK and Europe, however the North East faces the above issues.

Other operators and divisions manage re-paint programmes.
There are ways and means.

The photo GPR has uploaded of the 24 branded decker appearing on the X12 couldn't have been timed better.
That odd coloured front part could have quite easily gone on in the correct scheme.