(05 Sep 2021, 4:34 pm)Dan wrote The evening X30 was, on paper, allocated refurbished Mercedes Citaros. In terms of customer spec, these pretty much represent the same advertised specification of an X-lines route. Indeed, over at Deptford, Citaros of the same specification are allocated to the X20... So that's not the right argument to make!
The point remains that it wasn't an X-lines branded bus, however, and this has been addressed at the earliest opportunity. Unless interdeck coaches were allocated to the X30 on an evening, Riverside don't have any other X-lines branded buses available.
I think it's exactly the argument to make. Daytime vs evening experience on the X30 for over 18 months has, literally, been night and day. That the journeys were at least some of the time also operated by Scanias and Versas (have they had X-Lines refurbs?), and that the Citaros don't have tables which are advertised clearly on the daytime allocation (and are virtually life expired), is a pretty clear downgrade to me.