(20 Feb 2015, 8:23 pm)tyresmoke wrote I'm surprised 1101 gets such a good write up, I thought it was distinctly average for a Dart and certainly not the best of the batch... I think 1104 is the quickest, which we saw go out on the Sainsbury's run for a couple of trips. I enjoyed the ride on 4701 once we got out of Lakes Estate and got some meaningful mileage covered, with a few kickdowns on the A174 (but it wasn't the best ride I've had on one of those).
Quite impressed with 7401 and the B9s on the X93, they should turn out to be a superb buy and justifies me banging on about going for B9TLs... Intrigued to see how tired the Yorkshire ones would have been that we were offered. The punctuality of everything was spot on and it's ages since I've had a day out go that smoothly...
The Dart of that batch I rode on the 22 a while back was alright.
I was impressed with the B9TLs when I rode them on their first day in service especially on the steep hills round Robin Hood's Bay on the journey back from Scarborough I was going through Robin Hood's Bay expecting to struggle up the hills and was waiting for them steep hills to come but then when was surprised when we got back onto the A171 and I'm sat there thinking "oh we must have already gone up them" they are pretty good... for now at least.
The timetable changes have also made a good improvement to the reliability to the X93 I was surprised how long we had waiting time in places, at least the long layover in Whitby gave me a chance to catch up on what's going on online.
My only fault with the X93 that day was that the WiFi didn't appear to be working.