(14 Jul 2015, 8:20 pm)DaveyBowyer wrote To be fair, the performance could be down to the driver. I've been on both B9s and E400s (remember 7524) where the drivers have either been relaxed or running deliberately late (7524).
Haha, I remember that conversation/discussion actually, and since then, I've only ever seen it more than 5 minutes late once, that was on a peak time run, even drivers that aren't usually bang on time seem to be on time with that, whenever I get it it's usually 'on time', the only 14 plate one I see late frequently is 7522, with the rest generally on time, however at least three didn't have tracking as of last week...
On a different, completely not related to GNE, but sort of related to the discussion, note, Ashington have worked wonders with the 57 plate batch, like, the one's I've been on in the past two weeks have flown, so relating this to GNE, I reckon E400's will be a good buy, as long as they're at a depot that actually looks after their buses....