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03/07/2010

Friday July 2nd 2010 ~ Too Complicated !



A driver (well DS actually !) writes "What's this operating the 09.00 X1 ~ James Paget Hospital to Norwich ???"



.... why it's 32208 !! It also operated the 10.10 X1 ~ Norwich to Gt Yarmouth"

Fridays are always a fair bet for things to fall apart and due to an unfortunate A47 fatal accident near Narborough, which closed the road from 13.00 until tomorrow morning, today was no exception.
Almost every turn changed vehicles - far too complex to even detail here, however, 20109 was involved. It began the day on K3, a King's Lynn internal diagram normally reserved for a B7 371xx, but due to almost everything slipping a turn, it ended up on K4 which finishes at Yarmouth.
All other services were low floor Geminis but a quirk of the disruption was that this evening, all but one (to be confirmed of course !) Lowestoft B9s ended up overnighting at King's Lynn. This is unheard of under normal conditions and the day ended with the prospect of last arrival from the coast, K19, looking likely to be 37566 which would complete the set and leaving Lynn custodian tonight of 37562-70, 37572 & 37576, with 20109, 37156/7/9/60 all on the coast. 37158 arrived back at Lynn today largely repainted after collision damage repairs, but was off the road for servicing today.
Will 20115 get out on the X1 now it is a Lynn based coach at last, or is it on borrowed time ? 115 rests at Rowan Road at 21.25 tonight. Yes it really was that late, photo courtesy of a.n. other.

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