(11 Dec 2021, 5:29 pm)L469 YVK wrote How is the PVR now 9?

I thought it was just a 4 hour round trip?

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To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of the Volvo B5TL.

The X21 has never really had the right vehicle allocated. A bit of a shame the newer StreetDecks part of the original plan before COVID never got the chance of redemption.

I still say the X45/X46 would be better suited to Volvo B5TLs due to the lack of evening & Sunday boards (evenings & Sundays covered by E400MMCs interworking with 47, X30, X72) with the newer StreetDecks going the other way.

A bit unfair to tar all StreetDecks with the same brush. The earlier classic E400s weren't great but the later ones before MMCs have been spot on.

I thought the 67 plate StreetDecks we had on the X21 were spot on, 6332 was basically always allocated to the X21 from new prior to it being moved over to Consett and as far as I'm aware it was rarely off the road. 

The one place I prefer the B5s is on the A1 because they actually have the right gearing to go 'motorway speeds', whereas the Streetdecks don't.