(10 May 2014, 7:57 pm)Dan wrote Approximately 75 vehicles in total which need to be repainted - excluding those already listed for disposal and the Prestiges which we're expecting to depart the fleet too.
75 vehicles / avg 3 repaints per week = 25 weeks
Definitely achievable to repaint all of the vehicles in the Original Arriva livery by the end of this year, assuming there is an ongoing flow of vehicles being repainted (as is the case with Go North East). Will bring us to the end of the year nicely.
To give figures, removing the vehicles due for withdrawal, the following vehicles at each depot require repaints:
Ashington
1761/90 and 7438 (3 out of an allocation of 53)
Blyth
None
Darlington
1404-7, 1760/2/91 and 4647/56/7 (10 of 92)
Durham
1409/15-8/20-3, 2803/4/7-10/2-4/7-20/2/3, 4646/63 and 7443/4 (28 of 94)
Jesmond
1408/10-4/9, 2806 and 4510 (9 of 68)
Redcar/Whitby
4651 (1 of 68)
Stockton
1769/71 and 4654/8/9 (5 of 76)
I make that 56 of the remaining 1998-livered vehicles that will remain at the end of the year. Of course, all OmniCitys bar those listed at Stockton are due for repaint as part of the 'MAX' refurbishment (bar 4663 which is likely part of the 85/685 refurbishment programme). I think the likelihood of the remaining 3 original livered Lowlanders being repainted is very low but stranger things have happened (1711/2 springs to mind).