NLD-Arriva Achterhoek-Rivierenland

Arriva Achterhoek-Rivierenland

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Arriva won the concession Achterhoek-Rivierenland, which it already operated, for the period December 2025 to December 2035.

The new concession covers the same areas, sees expanded services and includes the railway services Tiel-Arnhem, Arnhem-Doetinchem-Winterswijk and Winterswijk-Zutphen. The additional rail service Arnhem-Doetinchem, supplementing the Arriva service on that part of the service to a 15-minute schedule, was transferred to Arriva.

Another major change was that the long-time subcontract with operator Juijn in the Rivierenland area, with important services to Den Bosch, was not renewed. Arriva now operates all services with large buses; services with minibuses are now operated by Citax of Tiel.

For the new concession, a fleet of electric buses was ordered with Solaris (14 15-meter buses) and VDL, and 40 eight-seater diesel minibuses with Tribus. However, VDL already announced it would not be able to deliver the buses before the start of the concession, Solaris did not have all the buses ready in time and Tribus had only some ten buses ready. This meant that a temporary fleet needed to be maintained, partially composed of the existing buses, supplemented by surplus buses from other concessions. Also, because of the end of the Juijn contract, Arriva needed more buses.

The livery for the new concession is the RRReis scheme as applied to all public transport in Gelderland, Overijssel and Flevoland (except Almere) provinces. Temporary buses are allover white.

Large buses that were already present in the previous concession:
1302-1310: Solaris Urbino 12 Hydrogen, 2023
8466-8467: VDL Citea LLE120, 2013
8508-8513, 8515, 8539: VDL Citea LLE120
8735/36/97: VDL Citea LLE120, 2012
8948, 8953-8959: VDL Citea LLE120, 2014
9074–9101: VDL Citea LLE120, 2016
9152-9158: VDL Citea LLE99, 2016
9211/20/21/23/24/27-30/36/44/46/48: VDL Citea LLE120, 2016

Large existing buses, transferred from other concessions in December 2025:
1906-1907: VDL Citea LLE120, 2017
1908: VDL Citea LLE120, 2015
7546: Mercedes-Benz Intouro L, 2015 (remains blue)
7551: Mercedes-Benz Intouro L, 2017 (remains blue)
7788-7790: Volvo B8R-LE 8900, 2014
8118/24/34/36/53/54/61/62/68/78/80: VDL Citea SLF120
8610: VDL Citea LLE120, 2013 (remains in Bravo livery)
8724: VDL Citea LLE120, 2012 (remains in ZHN livery)
8727/32/54/55/66/69/81/88: VDL Citea LLE120, 2012
8775: VDL Citea LLE120, 2012 (in white Arriva Techniek livery)
8934: VDL Citea LLE120, 2014
9304-9307: VDL Citea SLF120, 2016

Existing small buses:
6434: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter City45, 2018 (POD bus in Groenlo?)
6435-6437: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter City 35, 2017 (wit, lijn 25 Doetinchem-Didam)
6438-6445, 6448-6449: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter -Tribus, 2016 (6445 is wit en rijdt op lijn 20 in Doetinchem)
6450: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, 2018 (rijdt op lijn 20 in Doetinchem)
6523-6525: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, 2015
6526-6541: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter -Tribus, 2016 (6533, lijn 86, 6541, wit en rijdt op lijn 20)
6542: Volkswagen Crafter -Tribus Civitas, 2020 (reed laatst op lijn 44 in Tiel)
6742-6743: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter -Tribus, 2014
6802-6805: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter -Tribus, 2019 (rijden op lijnen 194, 195 en 49)
6811-6816: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, 2023 (rijden op 191, 195, 198, 199, 248 en 266)

New large buses:
5601-5614: Solaris Urbino 15LE Electric, 53/–, 2025
64x VDL Citea LE 122 Electric
22x VDL Citea LE 135 Electric

New small buses:
6901-6929: Volkswagen Crafter -Tribus Civiitas, 08/–, 2025/2026
6930-6940: Volkswagen Crafter -Tribus Civiitas, 08/–, 2025. Voor normale lijndiensten gereden door Citax, Tiel