Stagecoach 19197 Interior
Here's the upstairs interior of InterConnect purple liveried E400 19197 while it was sat in Lincoln bus station, showing that although it has the regular Stagecoach seat type, they are covered in a blue vinyl rather than the Beachball fabric. Some of the purple E400s do have the fabric moquette though, like 19203. I've been on three of these and two had vinyl and one fabric.
I already went on about how remarkably pleasant this bus was to be on, for a 15/16 year old E400 on a 30+ mile route, but look how spotless the interior is, not just because it's 7am and not had time to get mucky, but the fact it looks almost brand new inside; just a bit of paint chipped off some of the poles and a small strip hanging from one of the windows, but no damaged seats or graffiti etc.
The only disappointing thing here is the same issue as on the outside; no branding. Those cove panels are crying out for diagrammatic maps of routes 56/57/59, promotion of the wider InterConnect network, adverts for the Seasiders, Skegness day/week/group ticket information, "download our app" and so-on. I don't know if the fully branded InterConnects have anything like that, or the older ones, but most of these E400s got the half-arsed job with a livery and no branding.
19.5.23
Stagecoach 19197 Interior
Here's the upstairs interior of InterConnect purple liveried E400 19197 while it was sat in Lincoln bus station, showing that although it has the regular Stagecoach seat type, they are covered in a blue vinyl rather than the Beachball fabric. Some of the purple E400s do have the fabric moquette though, like 19203. I've been on three of these and two had vinyl and one fabric.
I already went on about how remarkably pleasant this bus was to be on, for a 15/16 year old E400 on a 30+ mile route, but look how spotless the interior is, not just because it's 7am and not had time to get mucky, but the fact it looks almost brand new inside; just a bit of paint chipped off some of the poles and a small strip hanging from one of the windows, but no damaged seats or graffiti etc.
The only disappointing thing here is the same issue as on the outside; no branding. Those cove panels are crying out for diagrammatic maps of routes 56/57/59, promotion of the wider InterConnect network, adverts for the Seasiders, Skegness day/week/group ticket information, "download our app" and so-on. I don't know if the fully branded InterConnects have anything like that, or the older ones, but most of these E400s got the half-arsed job with a livery and no branding.
19.5.23