(15 Feb 2014, 11:26 pm)tyresmoke wrote We have a lot less issues than Go North East have though, majority of ours can manage a full day on the road at least.... The maintenance throughout their lives always helps too. 1901-1907 are the best of our fleet and have been based at Stockton their entire lives, with a good engineering team looking after them.
Clearly Gateshead/Saltmeadows are having major issues with them now, do Washington have as many issues with their 88 branded ones? Were they neglected in their time on the Crusader? You could argue its a more demanding route than they were built to handle though.
Having said that Deptford manage ok with theirs and we all know how bad their engineering can be.
They hardly seemed to be on the road when allocated to the 88/88A, but since being put on the M2/M3 they seem to be solid. I don't know if any extensive work has been done on them or whatnot?