(13 Sep 2024, 8:03 pm)PH - BQA wrote Plenty of other companies use E400 MMCs on demanding services day in day out without as many issues as GNE seem to be having with theirs. Could it not simply be that GNE engineering standards are seriously lacking when compared to standards at other major companies?
The E400MMCs are definitely not the issue. It's the lack of rotation and the same 4x vehicles getting a beasting daily. The same issue that GNE had with 6043-48 when they did the X9/X10.
Arriva Northumbria's MMC's are fine as they get rotated between the X14/X15/X18/X20 and X21/35/X22.
We know what they need to do to address the issues at Riverside and have more stable buses on Riverside's 'X' routes. But if us enthusiasts can devise interworking patterns that not only address the issue and create greater efficiencies such as ditching most of the remote reliefs, then there lies the issue.
GNE have had two big opportunities to address the issue. First time around.....they didn't "to stop the remote reliefs in Stanley" when the X30/X31/X45 interworked. Then next time around, they still haven't and yet most of the reliefs this time around are done in Stanley.
What a joke!