Arriva North West - Winsford Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Winsford Depot

(26/02/2014 17:41)mathias Wrote:  4074 (S244 JUA) was the second-worst DLA when it was based at Bootle, accelerated with all the enthusiasm of a dying snail, wouldn't go above 30mph. Sad to hear it hasn't improved since then.

Nothing AND I MEAN NOTHING could beat 4028 (S268 JUA) when it came to poor DLA deckers, they should've scrapped that thing years ago!
Foot-to-the-floor-and-nothing-happens acceleration, it guzzled fuel like there was no tomorrow!
Good job Bootle got rid of them, feel kind of sorry for Winsford.
Horrible things to drive.

I've had rides on both of these which disprove the idea they have constantly been slow. Both could shift while they were based at Bootle, especially 4028 which was the best of the 4025-31 batch in my view. I had this a lot when it was at Speke and it ranks fairly high. 4074 was reasonably nippy too, very well presented and gave a great ride on the 375 while it was at Southport.

Granted, some DLAs do have difficulties with acceleration and top speed (4038 and 4065 would be good examples) but many are decent. I wouldn't say either of the above two were slow on the occasions I rode them. Their ride quality remains unrivalled amongst ex-London deckers for me and easily surpasses the VLWs and DLPs.