[Archive] Arriva North West - Speke Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot
A couple of odd ones from Speke today, including 3332 on the 86, 2592 on the 79 and 4451 on the 76.

Had a ride on 3332 for the first time in a while just to remember the occasions on which I rode the 86B home as a bit of a change from the vastly, vastly superior B7s. The Olympian was awful - slow despite being apparently being flat out right the way through the journey, terribly crashy and rough over all roads and grim, dark and tired internally. Comparing R-WVRs with the B7s is like comparing Hackney with Mayfair - one is superior by a massive margin. There are a few good examples in the R-WVR batch (3309 and 3315 for two) but both of Speke's are appalling in all departments. I still can't believe two DLAs weren't retained ahead of these complete and utter heaps. It's just embarrassing for Arriva to have these substituting for a high-specification and all-around excellent double decker in the B7TLs.

By way of comparison, I also had 4125 and 4458 today and both were simply excellent.