Wednesday 28th July 2010 ~ Coaches On Holiday

20126 departs Wisbech Horsefair bus station ten minutes late as the 13.56 to Lowestoft today.

20127 against a thundery sky this evening at Fence Bank. It was running 14 late on the 17.05 Peterborough - Lowestoft.

20107, aka 'The Beast' seems to be stopped for servicing at the moment and as we reported yesterday 20127 stepped into the breach to provide cover for L12 yesterday. Today it worked K2 which terminates at Lowestoft after working the 17.05 from Peterborough.

Bruce nearly fell off his chair at the observatory at lunchtime however. Having smugly announced that Y13 should be 37567, I was taken down a peg or two when Bruce phoned to say that in fact it was the other Great Yarmouth coach, 20126 ! Running 16 late to Peterborough, it had reduced this to 10 minutes on its return and it duly completed the turn which forms the last service west of Lynn finishing as the 23.10 from Peterborough, by which time it had regained all the lost time.

One has to go back to 23rd April 2009 to find the last occasion when both Yarmouth B10Ms were working the mainstream X1 - well I know you expect me to know sad facts like that !

On the Gemini front 37577 & 37156 were no shows out of Lowestoft today, but 37563/8 appeared instead. Only two B7 Geminis were on the X1 service, which is very unusual of late. These were 37157 on L12 and 37160 on K5. Normally B7 turns, K18 had 37570 and Y13 as we've already said 20126.

37568 is operating in a rather unusual condition this week. Firstly the rear route indicator is out of use - 37567 has of course been like this for an age and a B7, can't recall which but either 37156 or 37157 is likewise now. 568 is unique though in having just a single advert (for Lynx on the offside) with both nearside and rear panels clear. 37576 also exhibits the original route destinations on the nearside and was on K15 today running 13 late on the 12.45 Lynn - Peterborough, this was an improvement on the 23 minute deficit it had accumulated on the same turn yesterday. 37565 appears to have been cured of its noisy fan and reports on 37156/7 will follow in this respect.