Tuesday 15th June 2010 ~ One, Two, Three School Buses

One of those enigmas which the X1 sometimes throws up occurred today. What was expected today was that after an extremely rare overnight at Yarmouth, 20109 would return home to King's Lynn.
Standing at Wisbech waiting for an X1 this morning however, you would firstly have seen 20123 on Y7 09.18 to Peterborough, followed by 20121 on K5 09.56 to Lowestoft and then (the one that was expected) 20109 on Y9 10.18 to Peterborough ! This also explained why John W only saw 20118 in Lynn bus station off the Hunstanton school runs, it's not known what worked the other two turns.
20123 came on Y7 at Lynn replacing 37570 which was unable to continue, so it may have actually had time to do its school run first. Y7 is off King's Lynn at 08.45 and 20123 was 8 late westbound at Wisbech and 9 late returning. It came off at King's Lynn and it is not known what worked forward to Lowestoft, although 37158 was absent this evening.
20121 was out on K5 as 37573/6 were still unavailable.
K18 began the day with 37159, but this returned from Lowestoft on Y7 and K18 was seen at Wisbech 22 late this afternoon with a revived 37570. So another mystery - what worked K18 from Lowestoft to Lynn ?
In general afternoon punctuality was poor. Noted at Wisbech were K16 with 37568, 13 late on the 13.48 westbound and 29 late returning, K17 with 37575 10 late on the 15.05 from Peterborough. K19 37578 21 x 16 late then later 37579 21 late on the 16.48 westbound (K3) and K4 with 37572 23 late.
At Beccles, 37156 was seen by Michael on the 13.38 Lowestoft - Norwich X2. Meanwhile John W says "In case anyone is perplexed by a strange Plaxton with First swirls, a visitor in Lynn and around is Trurorian 20475 (Y5 TRU) seen today on Austin Fields, and afterwards loading its party at Tuesday Market Place. A bribe might have sent the driver through Walpole Highway which could have caused a little confusion!". Well with today's goings on John, I'm quite surprised that it wasn't snapped up for the X1 !