[Archive] Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

(01/02/2013 19:30)507009 Wrote:  Speaking of Cadets, the contrast between 2416 and 2437 today was remarkable. A refurbished example with superb interior, smooth ride and good turn of speed meets a particularly tatty sister with a woeful ride. I hope 2437 receives some attention in the direction of its dreadful rattling problem soon. It seemed sluggish as well.

Although 2416 is tidier, performance wise its terrible. I had it on the 118/9 last week, even with the driver using the gears manually up Spital road hill and up gorsey lane off duke street it struggled to do anything above 20mph.

I did speak to the driver just before I got off, he did say its one of the worse ones, also said the power steering pump is on its way out and its probably the most sluggish after 2426! He did however credit it for having no warning lights on.

On another note regarding hybrids, hybrid training starts as of next monday (11th) iirc. 3 sessions per day, so presumably at least 1 hybrid is expected any day now.. I did nip into the depot at around 0030 this morning but nothing of interest to note.

Luke