(20 Apr 2021, 7:35 pm)Dan wrote Absolutely no bias at all here, but if you've ever travelled on the Volvo B9s on service X93, you'll know those seats are absolutely atrocious for a long-distance journey. This would have been an ideal opportunity to replace the seats with something more appropriate (even a direct swap between the older MAX-specification Volvo B7s at Durham, where shorter distance journeys are made) and comfortable for its passengers. It is frankly bizarre that they'd replace the MAX logo with a Sapphire one, especially the now-defunct logo, at that.

I always thought it was a touch odd they went to all the trouble of giving them a full refurb when brand new but stuck with those seats. The couple of times I've used the X93 I've looked for the B7TL boards and struck lucky with a DB300 filling in for a B9 too. 

It's good to see they're finally investing some money into repaints and refurbs (whatever the motivation may have been...) but if we're honest there is still a huge amount of work to do to get the fleet up to a decent standard - looking at you Cotswold Stone.