(26 Jun 2023, 10:18 am)nova347 wrote 5370 is hasn't got any power still even though it has been off since the back end of November. The front display, the door side part is still dimmed. The back display has a lot of dead pixels. 5372 is the worst one, it went up the Mill-Inn Bank at 4mph, which is worse than what it did before it got took out of service for months. I would really like to see how 5370/72 would do on the X30 going up that massive bank in Whickham. God help both of them if they ever need to go on the A19 like crawling at 30 MPH.
I did overtake a drifter the other day on the A19 - didn't get the number annoyingly. It was on Staff Shuttle work (according to the destination screen anyway) and was doing about 30-40mph. I think at one point it even had its hazards on.
Also regards the driving standards convo - I haven't worked for GNE but I know an ex-GNE driver who said the timetables are extremely tight, and some of them absolutely impossible, which would go a long way to explaining the driving standards. Our service 3 is similar - you can either follow the 20 limits in the estates, or follow the timetable; you can't have both except on a select few journeys that are very quiet.