Ahead of the service changes this Sunday, two buses from Deptford have been sent to Saltmeadows for repaint over the last two days. These include:
- former "Laser" branded Scania L94UB/Wright Solar 4972 (NK53 UNY)
- former "Silver Arrows" branded Mercedes Citaro 0530N/Mercedes Citaro 5327 (NK58 DWE)

The repainting of 5327 marks the final Mercedes Citaro to be repainted for the new 35/36 services, which should hopefully mean that next week there will be a full Merc allocation. There are still four Scania L94s outstanding which need to be repainted (4968, 4970, 4971 and a red example); whilst one may be repainted this week when one of the above returns, the remaining three will have to be repainted next week, meaning that the revised 20/20A services will have a number of corporate liveried vehicles allocated before normal VORs are taken into consideration.

In other news, Washington's DAF SB120/Wright Cadet 8247 (NA52 BVD) is currently on loan to Chester-le-Street Depot.