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12/08/2010

Wednesday 11th August 2010 ~ Royale Renaissance

Bruce photographed 20514 heading for Peterborough at 16.40 through Walpole this afternoon.
Treble trouble ! A trio of Geminis at King's Lynn bus station today - thanks to Andy James for the picture - 37158, 37572 & 37157 on K14, K19 & K18. 158 appears to be loading, but how far did it get ? May be only Vancouver Avenue as 37159 replaced it at some point !
Well having requested sightings of Royale 34108 yesterday, it obliged itself today by replacing 37564 on L8 at Lowestoft. This was its first appearance at Peterborough since 6th July and it seems to have been out of traffic for a few weeks, as Michael says it has been absent from the X2 as well. Its journey was not without incident however and our man in the know reports that it ran out of fuel at Hopton at some ungodly hour after midnight.
This afternoon, K18 10.55 from Lowestoft which was 37157 arrived at King's Lynn 35 late accompanied by K19 and 37572. 157 departed Lynn at around 14.50 and was viewed by Mister C in Queensgate at 15.57. Another B7 was also lagging behind schedule before this when K16 with 37156 was seen leaving Wisbech Horsefair 17 late at 14.05. It headed for Peterborough down the unnecessary diversion via Churchill Road. In between the two B7s came K17 bang on time with 37575, running correctly via Nene Quay. 37573 also took this latter route this afternoon on K1 being 20 late, this one was viewed at Queensgate at 16.57 by Tony. K2 with 37568, which of course was late to the tune of 23 minutes also travelled via Nene Quay.
Today's big event was the use of Paragon 20514 on K3. It was viewed by Bruce and Rob B and was 23 late at Wisbech for the 08.56 to Lowestoft, due to 'technical problems', These can't have been too severe though, as it was only 7 late this afternoon.
There was a swap at Lynn tonight with 37567 on Y6 20.35 to Lowestoft being replaced by 37565 which had just arrived on L11.

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