(11 Sep 2016, 6:22 pm)mb134 wrote Ashington seem to have got majority of them sorted out. They were hideously unreliable when they first went Sapphire, though I feel that the absence of 7504 for a while initially made it a lot more noticeable.
However, as much as they now seem pretty reliable, a couple still don't seem very good for an 'express' route, which is what I have more of an issue with. (Although, having said that, when compared to a Blyth Gemini, there's only ever one winner. Hate pretty much everything about those things.)
ashington have spent a lot of money tidying up the engines on the 57 reg enviros and giving them bigger batteries to for the plug sockets and doing what it has to do in the engines