Further to parts on Facebook and speculation on here, there appears to be an exchange of vehicles between depots to utilise capacity.
It is rumoured Runcorn are receiving 3047-3061 and 3077/8 from Green Lane.
Southport and St. Helens are exchanging some Pulsars. Hard Southport losing Cadets 2631/3/4 to Birkenhead is part of this plan.
Please comment if you find out any confirmed movements in this thread.
Other than 3023/5 there are no other Pulsars leaving Green Lane's allocation
Apparently the rumour is that is that 4414 is rumoured for a transfer to Southport whilst 4108/9 will be heading back to Speke depot soon.
Only pulsars being exchanged with St helens are the ones in the original livery, the m.d wants all original fleet re-painted in the 2017 livery....
Needed to rename this thread so we know what company we are taking about, and it may just belong in depot threads
not sure which MD.. but why would any exec ask for buses to be painted into a former livery?
(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2493 and 3032 are the only buses in Cotswold Stone, but since 2493 is a 2004 model chances are it may get withdrawn soon without a repaint despite receiving a new engine and differentials prior to coming to Green Lane.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.
(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?
Read again it says all original livery to be re painted into the 2017 livery not the other way round
The rumour about GL Pulsars moving to Runcorn is a Facebook fallacy,ie. rubbish except for 3023 & 3025 which are confirmed.
4112/3 are now at Green Lane