(13 Dec 2019, 11:27 pm)Andreos1 wrote #missingexpurplesolar

Awful vehicles from a passenger perspective. 
Rattly, noisy, dirty, cold, damp - yet they're organising a swansong on Sunday?
Bet the regulars will be gutted

They were good when they were new, nice and smooth, and I used them daily on what was then the 35/35A between Shields and Sunderland. They were a revelation compared with the SPDs and Excels used beforehand, although the enthusiast in me preferred a B7RLE driven hard...
Still, they were the maids of all work before the Citaros arrived, and like an aged popstar whose voice is long gone, they've had their time but deserve a good send-off.

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Also, 4976 at Deptford is the last bus in service in the traditional 4xxx single deck fleet numbering series as invented in 1975, so that'll be a sort of end of an era there too. 4961-5 hang on as training vehicles of course.