(23 Aug 2015, 4:03 pm)GX03 SVC wrote So let me get this straight.......
I assume these B7s are from either 2001/2 or 2003 and have spent most of their lives going around London at 20mph? Then Arriva going to MAX them, then spend money paying for Titan to launch these new old buses for a route which Arriva have extended to Alnwick, mostly to assist the X18 which has buses new in 2014...
This is ridiculous, I really can't see the point in refurbishing 10+ year old buses for a route which runs alongside buses new in 2007/9/14!
Yeah I would expect they'll be 2002-3 builds but if they've been trundling round London they won't really have pushed the engines so they should be pretty reliable. Certainly the ones on the X93 last summer (and 85/86/87 this summer) have been pretty good, indeed better than the E400s they replaced.