Arriva North West - Southport Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Southport Depot
Tracked down some of Southport's Marshalls today and was lucky enough to ride nine of them. 7664 and 7673 were inside Canning Road, didn't see 7648 but the rest were all out. Have to admit to being very pleasantly surprised - some of these are really decent. The clear highlights were 7654 and 7655, both of which were superb in all departments. These two, which I assume have spent the vast majority of their lives at Southport, have some nice original features such as almost all their Marshall marked glass and are very clean and tidy internally. The pair of these were near faultless which is extremely rare for Marshall Darts. The only major gripe with any of those out today was with 7643, which had a truly appalling idle vibration and rode poorly. Nevertheless, good to ride some impressive Capitals as they near the end.

Southport had some odd allocations as well - B7s 4102 and 4104 on the 43/46, 2728 on the 49, 2722 and 2723 on the 42/44. Two other B7s were also off the road at the depot, guaranteeing at least four subs on the 375/85.