Arriva North East

[N391OTY]

RE: Arriva North East
I have now seen all of batch 7466-78 carrying their fleetnumbers. They all match the list previously circulated by kuyoyo, apart from 7471 which has registration X503 GGO. I have yet to see 7471/3/4/6 in service however - these four are all at Jesmond though.

This still leaves Y481 and Y497 to be allocated 74xx numbers.

4708 and 4714 are still dumped on Jesmond. There was also an Omnicity there tonight but I overlooked it while checking out the DAFs!

(15/06/2013 23:30)kuyoyo Wrote:  

(15/06/2013 23:24)N391OTY Wrote:  

(15/06/2013 22:55)kuyoyo Wrote:  The 7466-7478 batch has already been reported, but for people that missed it:
7466 = W396VGJ - Blyth
7467 = W397VGJ - Ashington
7468 = X437FGP - Ashington
7469 = X447FGP - Reported for Blyth
7470 = X504GGO - Reserve at Jesmond
7471 = W392VGJ
7472 = W401VGJ - Ashington
7473 = W402VGJ
7474 = W403VGJ - Reserve at Jesmond
7475 = Y482UGC - Ashington
7476 = W398VGJ - Reserve at Jesmond
7477 = W404VGJ - Durham
7478 = X434FGP - Durham

That suggests those three are 7479-81, as those 3 are the only ones that we don't know the registrations for.

As for those B6BLEs, they are in effect knackered after being sat there for nearly enough 18 months now. There was rumours at one point that some of them would converted into the next trainers for the division but that is now reported to be the V-reg Coaches instead, so it's likely the B6s will be sold off once their book value is low enough.

Ah, right. I thought the batch was only going up to 7479.

My point about 7469/71 was that they seemed to be the only two whose registrations had not yet been verified by observation. Anyway, looks like the whole batch, apart from the red one, should be on the road quite soon.

Those registrations were verified by an Arriva Fleetlist reporter. As only 7466-8/72/5/7 have entered service so far and 7470/4/6/8 have been reported as arriving at their new homes (Jesmond's five are reportedly earmarked for this Summer's Metro Replacment work).