(13 Dec 2025, 8:31 pm)peter wrote They're only doing vehicles that are 12-plate or more modern. At one point they also seemed to be replacing Sapphire with Journey Mark but not sure if that's still the case. In theory the only vehicles which are contenders for repaint are: 

Northumbria: 
Max 12-plate Pulsars: 1503/4/5
Sapphire 17-plate E400 MMC's: 7541-48/50-52

North East: 
Sapphire 64-plate B9's: 7401-6
Sapphire 67-plate Streetlites: 1602-1614
Old Sapphire 12-plate Pulsar: 1528 

Everything else will be staying in its current livery and I reckon with the amount of new buses due for the North East next year there won't be too many Interurban liveried vehicles left once all delivered.

Ahh ok. The MMC's look great in the JM livery along with the streetlites. I do think they need to start merging the Streetlites into one area though instead of having them dotted around places. Personally, I think Stockton would be a perfect fit for alot of the north east Streetlites. They have a lot of non hill climb demanding routes like the 7,8,9,15,16,17's,28's,29. Depending on what Redcar have ordered for the 63, some could be sent over that way too for the 63 if they don't get electrics. Pulsars ain't gonna last forever. Will be good to see some MMC's coming for Stockton. Assuming there for the 5/5A?

I'm not to sure if they will do the B9's into Journey Mark unless they plan on transferring them elsewhere. However, they're super unique to Arriva as they don't really operate many B9's. If they are changing anything on them, they may go for what they did on the Evoras and do the Yorkshire Coast Connection style Livery on them but Arriva sometimes change their plans.

Also, whats with Arriva removing some of the Journey Mark Stripes off some of the buses. Surely theres a reason behind it.