[Archive] Arriva North West - Speke Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot
Had a ride on my first refurbished B7TL today in the form of 4113 and I can't praise it enough - absolutely outstanding throughout. They've done a stunning job with the interior, repainting and renewing where appropriate the seat backs and panels, and of course, blue blocks moquette. It looked as good as new, in fact arguably even better than when the B7s were new as the moquette and new seat back colour are an improvement over what was there before. The ride was, as usual from the ANW decker kings, exemplary.

The P&P programme has been instrumental in radically improving the interiors of a number of bus types now - X-reg Cadets, DAF DB250s and bench seated Darts in particular - but these are the best yet for me. I don't think the B7s looked too bad inside before refurb, especially considering 6 years of extremely intense use, but this is a clear step forward.