(04 May 2015, 4:38 pm)citaro5284 wrote It seems everyone had a good time. One thing which I disagree GNE doing is taking a bus off service to attend a rally. All X66 vehicles are required and should be available for service and there is no excuse for one of them to be sitting at a rally all day and not been on service and consequently the X66 has to operate with a red spare.
In my opinion, buses should only go if not required.
I wholeheartedly agree with that.
Whilst it was nice to have the opportunity to see one of the X66 Streetlites at the rally, it shouldn't be at the detriment of the service being provided. I'd hate to think that having a spare unnecessarily run around on the X66 all day would perhaps be frowned upon by the powers that be. I recall similar when a TTX B9TL attended in 2013?
Negatives aside it was a good showing from GNE again. It was good of them to bring an Olympian, for what will probably (hopefully?) be the last time. A few of us had a ride up to Sunniside and back on it. It was also good for the Red Kite branding to be unveiled at an enthusiast event, because I know a few on here have had a grumble about them launching brands during the week!
The OmniDekka they brought was also sporting a very smart paint job. It was interesting to see that they still had the Brighton & Hove destinations programmed though.
