Arriva North West Possible Jan/Feb Fleet Movement

[NathanR]

RE: Possible Jan/Feb Fleet Movement

(31/01/2021 01:33)SNL 824 Wrote:  not sure which MD.. but why would any exec ask for buses to be painted into a former livery?

Former liveries? Do you mean liveries such as the Ribble Motor Services livery for 4411 and MPTE for 4590 in 2019? They were done to commemorate the centenarian for the former and semi-centenarian for the latter. These buses no longer wear these liveries and are in Arriva's corporate livery (though 4411 is undergoing repaint at this minute)

If it isn't former liveries, you may be thinking of the current livery, from what I know is that there is still quite a lot of buses that still wear older Arriva liveries and chances are within the next few years that the older liveries will be slowly phased out in favour of the new corporate livery introduced in 2017.

Here are the statistics for liveries (Keep in mind, i'm working off BusTimes here, so it is not super accurate as repaints usually have to wait for approval or a trusted user can change the livery themselves without approval)

• Cotswold Stone (Arriva pre-2009 livery) - 42
• Interurban (Arriva livery post-2009) - 315
• Journey Mark (Current Arriva corporate livery) - 134
  

There is also a priority list for livery repaints, I believe Birkenhead and St. Helens are at the front of the list, whilst Green Lane and Speke sit at the bottom.

2493 and 3032 are the only buses in Cotswold Stone, but since 2493 is a 2004 model chances are it may get withdrawn soon without a repaint despite receiving a new engine and differentials prior to coming to Green Lane.

Speke also have one single bus in Cotswold, but that bus is 2576.