RE: Arriva North East - Latest
That's a tricky one with Arriva and branding, just as I guess it is for other operators? In theory it has it's advantages but in reality it makes operation / allocation difficult and has the possibility of confusing the public. Arriva vinyl branded services around Teesside for the likes of services 9 and 27 and in the main part, it worked with few vehicles operating away from their dedicated routes. Now, following the last service changes all these vehicles were de-branded to allow, I presume, better manage of the network? I'm wondering now if the new intakes of fleet for Sapphire 4/4x, 5/5a will be in standard livery or branded same as Sapphire 7 ? I'm kinda assuming it's to be the latter?