(26 Jun 2015, 10:04 pm)RGR756V wrote I've had experience of E400s from my time at Arriva and I wasn't impressed.....the latest batch that have arrived at Darlington for Arriva alledgedly are keeping the ADL service man (who lives down the road from me) very busy. Admittedly they aren't MMCs but are they really going to be that different?The B9s will easily give another 3-4 years of service no problem though and spares across other depots are needed. For example, Riverside are having to still allocate a B7 to the TEN due to 6084 constantly being needed on the TTX.
There is a video of SN64CTU on YouTube working the 36 for Transdev Harrogate and it does seem to trot along at a canny pace. The B5 we had last year was very ponderous, though I think it was set up for Lothian. Arriva are currently having issues with their Daimler engined Streetlites on the X1 and that does not fill me with confidence either!
I know people are saying they should transfer B9s from the Red Arrows to Pronto and I am inclined to agree, but there is going to be a time that B9s will be life expired and it makes sense to bite the bullet now and find out which of these new generation of small engined deckers will work on the X21
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