Arriva bought a series of ten MAN articulated CNG buses, numbered 251-260, for a special City Bus service in Groningen. However, Arriva lost the concession to Qbuzz and the buses, just three years old, became redundant. Arriva transferred four, 251-254, to its Friesland concession, and sold six, 255-260, to Syntus in May 2011, for use on the Veluwelijn. Syntus numbered the buses 5245-5250, below the similar 5251-5257. However, not all six buses were needed for the Veluwelijn, which was not attrackting as many passengers as expected, and only four, 5245, 5247, 5248 and 5249, received Veluwelijn livery. Two, numbers 5246 and 5250, received the standard veluwe regional buses livery and were (re)numbered 5298 and 5299. Number 5249 was let to Syntus Overijssel for the Deltion Campus service number 9 in Zwolle in September 2015 and served for two years there. In September 2017 Syntus Overijssel started using high-capacity Mercedes CapaCity on this route and 5249 returned to the Veluwe.
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