7619 arrived in Middlesbrough earlier showing Merry Christmas.

One of Blyth's B5s were being driven around the Cowley Road area of Blyth, with a Volvo engineer, this morning.

Sounded louder than usual like...

Temsa Avenue 4712 / YJ10 DHF is now in the new fleet livery.
Arriva North East: 4712 / YJ10DHF by Matthew Jimmison, on Flickr

Apparently more are to be done and will supposedly have the seats re-trimmed into e-leather, this one certainly had at least.

EDIT: 4716 & 4717 currently at Thornton's.

(18 Dec 2017, 4:29 pm)Jimmi wrote Would imagine all depots have these displays, I've definitely seen Darlington Depot and Belmont Depot pop up, possibly Blyth Depot as well. Would imagine the usual Not In Service blind should be used but these probably get selected half the time instead, the Frequenta, Sapphire and MAX logo displays sometimes do as well.

The "South" has

Arriva Stockton 
Arriva Redcar     
Arriva Whitby 
These 3 display Arriva North East ******** Depot which is possibly the blind you saw. All depots have there own version of this as displayed at the end of Durham Rally 2016 with 1512 and 1324 displaying thier depots versions, Stockton and Durham respectively. 

The Max,  Sapphire and Frequenta logo is on a different number for the South, where as in the North its all on 0000 same as sorry not in service. Drivers use this cause its quicker.

(20 Dec 2017, 6:16 pm)Jimmi wrote Temsa Avenue 4712 / YJ10 DHF is now in the new fleet livery.
Arriva North East: 4712 / YJ10DHF by Matthew Jimmison, on Flickr

Apparently more are to be done and will supposedly have the seats re-trimmed into e-leather, this one certainly had at least.

EDIT: 4716 & 4717 currently at Thornton's.

4716 on 62 today

(21 Dec 2017, 1:41 pm)Rockstar666 wrote 4716 on 62 today

Repainted?

(21 Dec 2017, 4:25 pm)Cock Robin wrote Repainted?

No not yet

(22 Dec 2017, 12:06 am)Rockstar666 wrote No not yet

It seems that I was given incorrect info on Wednesday evening, according to a different source its 4710 (not 4716) & 4717 currently at Thornton's, with 4710 expected back next.

Reports in a Facebook group that 7489 now carries the new Arriva Driver Training livery. For those who haven't seen it, it's the same style as Sapphire, but with the Arriva pinky purple at the front.

(26 Dec 2017, 5:01 pm)omnicity4659 wrote Reports in a Facebook group that 7489 now carries the new Arriva Driver Training livery. For those who haven't seen it, it's the same style as Sapphire, but with the Arriva pinky purple at the front.

Not 7489, but a picture of the livery as described below:

ARRIVA Buses Wales 8259 - CX55 FAF by Cymru Coastliner, on Flickr

(26 Dec 2017, 5:08 pm)S813 FVK wrote Not 7489, but a picture of the livery as described below:

ARRIVA Buses Wales 8259 - CX55 FAF by Cymru Coastliner, on Flickr

That's a bit new to be a driver trainer!

I was at Wakefield the other week and was sat on 704 all day most of it in the back yard wasn’t very warm but the livery dose suit a decker


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Would anyone happen to know the identities of the assortment of rather poorly looking vehicles round the side of Darlington's Faverdale depot? They appeared to mostly be Darts, but there's at least one Cadet in there.

They're all withdrawn vehicles currently for sale