Thursday 17th June 2010 ~ Thank You 109

Sam Wickham sent this picture of two identical buses at Lowestoft today. 37160 has arrived on Y6 and 37156 is ready to take over and form the 14.25 back to Peterborough. Incidentally note the two variations of the AXA Insurance ad on the rear.

This lady chauffeur (discretion prevents me revealing her name) was obviously so frightened at the prospect of being captured on film by Sam, that she pulled down her sunvisor a bit too far when bringing 37575 on K1 into Lowestoft bus station today. Says Sam "The sun was very bright at the time !"

A couple of beasts photographed at Yarmouth Caister Road garage last week. 20128 was a one time X1 regular, but has latterly been downgraded to a Driver Trainer. Photo by Anonymous.

20109 again, this time out in the sunshine on K15 today, near Walsoken.

20121 is a proper Eastern Counties vehicle with Norfolk registration (even if NVG does stand for 'not very good'). It was therefore nice to see it carrying an advert proclaiming 'Best In Norfolk' this week ! Seen here after arrival at King's Lynn on K5 on Tuesday.

The current spell with B10M 20109 pretending to be a B9 Gemini looks to have ended this evening, not that 109 did anything wrong of course. Unless you count yesterday when it was on the final westbound service (K19) and a wheelchair passenger needed to board. It was probably because of this that today 109 was entrusted with the top B9 turn, K15. On average, this turn gets a B10M once a year.

Tonight though, the situation looks to have been remedied with both 37573 (Volvo) and 37576 (Accident Repairs) back at King's Lynn. On the minus side, it is confirmed that 37158's absence this week is also due to accident damage.

60863 was sent out on K14 today, it was 25 minutes late on the 12.48 Wisbech - Peterborough and was not seen at all returning probably indicating it travelled empty back to Lynn. This was pretty much the worst example of late running which was prevalent today. 37567 equalled this feat by also being 25 late on the 13.05 from Peterborough (Y13) but that had been reduced to just 5 minutes this evening.

There were some diagram swaps at the Lowestoft end today. Firstly K18 arrived with 37156 and 37565 took over, then Y6 with 37160 was swapped for 37156 and completing the trio 37566 on Y9 was changed for 37160. These moves meant 37160 finished at home at Lynn and 37156 likewise at Lowestoft.