Jamie Vendy was on hand to capture 37569 on K1 and behind it 37568 on K14 at King's Lynn bus station at just after 3pm today.
and here is 568 departing on the 15.03 to Lowestoft the lack of advertising revealing the original route branding. It has been in this condition since 12th June and 37576 has also been the same since 30th. This has come about because the recent batch of nearside ads appear to have been slightly undersized and become loose. Most campaigns these days are designed with the dropdown panel for greater exposure and these can only be fitted on the offside. This means advertisers who use the nearside often see their adverts last a lot longer as they are less often replaced ! JVThanks to all who have supplied sightings to me lately, particularly Bruce and Rob Brooks. I often get sent related items too and Rob H sent me a lovely one this week. He sent this link to the Eastern Daily Press article relating to possible cutbacks in rural bus services. Take a look :
Hope the link works, if so you'll see a picture of 20129 with the marvellous caption 'A Norfolk Bus'. Perhaps a more up to date caption should read ' A Norfolk Driver Training Coach Recently withdrawn' !
X1 duties seen today included K2 with 37565 which was 3 late at Walpole Highway this morning making a horrendous racket - the fan problem being the reason and this is the first to suffer with this for quite a while. 37563/6/7/70 having already been cured. Bruce saw 37158 on K3 and Ian reported 37575 on K5. Y7 with 37564 and L8 with 37156 both passed my office for a change and both on time, however, this did not set a precedent and the next bus I saw was noisy old 37565 nearly 7 hours later on the 16.18 Wisbech to Peterborough. It had regained the 3 minutes of lost time reported earlier though.
Punctuality this afternoon was on the whole pretty poor. 37579 on K15 12.45 King's Lynn - Peterborough was seen 13 late, 37562 on K17 (as usual) managed to be on time but Bruce saw K18 with 37160 returning east 15 late at 16.50 through Walpole. Cheryl then saw 37578 on K19 arriving in Wisbech a similar 15 minutes behind schedule.
On the bright side, there didn't seem to be any swaps of vehicle allocations today, which Heaven knows is very rare. 37566 was absent yet again and this seems to be the lame duck of the B9s. 37576 spent the day at Vancouver Avenue and was rumoured to be attended to by Volvo staff. 37159 was again on Lynn 7110 turn which it has done since Tuesday and 'The Beast' was for a change employed on an X2 turn which also does afternoon school contract 7 in the Beccles area.
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