(23 Jun 2014, 8:44 pm)andy1977 wrote K2 is a P reg vehicle, R6 and R7 are R reg so 1 year newer than K2.
It's definitely happening, contracts were signed off today.
Of the Olympians, one has to stay to cover commitments with Durham County Council. The Leyland (B10) has been out of acrion for a couple of years now and is unlikely to ever run as a working vehicle again. Currently one of the Olympians stays in a depot at Byker and one of the B7L deckers stays at Sunderland. I think you will find this arrangment will continue/be expanded upon. Pure stupidity running vehicles that do 4-5 mpg's all the way back to Stanley when sub depots are available nearer to where they will be working.
Woah i think you are missing the point. Not all of the new deckers will be stored at outstations. When going past the depot, i also seem to notice all 3 olympians parked up there so unless it has a job up here after its job down at Byker then im not quite sure what you mean.
Going back to the registrations:
Just because the vehicle has an R at the beginning of its personalised registration it doesnt mean that thats its actual registration starts with that letter (They are both Irish so, in this case will be hard to tell as im not used to Irish Registrations so, for example, S2 and S4 STX, they my have the letter S at the beginning but we (or most of us) know that they are actually a V reg vehicle and by their looks and style inside, R6 and R7 do, to me, look like the elder vehicles.