Arriva North West and Wales upcoming Fleet movements

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RE: Arriva North West and Wales upcoming Fleet movements

(14/03/2017 19:11)Quackdave Wrote:  On a separate note, I wonder why the fleet numbering for new double deckers is suddenly all over the place? First, the seemingly illogical omission of numbers 4693-4799 prior to the allocation of 4800-4850, which are basically just a restyled and updated version of 4492-4535; now it seems a completely new series (10xx) is being started for the new ADLs.

Hybrids and conventional diesel-epicyclics, premium and regular specification vehicles, different manufacturers, have all previously been numbered sequentially in one standard series, so I don't see what's fundamentally new about these vehicles enough to start a new series.

I was thinking the same thing the other day. The previous (largely followed) convention seems to have gone out the window of late. I can sort of get The 5000 range for hybrid single decks (but it could have been in the 3000s) but then a separate range with just the Streetlites in is stupid and the the new range for the ADL is completely bonkers!