Saturday August 7th 2010 ~ Worcester Sauce

Wall to roof carpet would appear to one of the luxury features of Paragon 20514 seen here this evening alongside comfy old 20121 and a King's Lynn local Dart on the left.

B10M 20126 flying over the A47 flyover at lunchtime on L9 11.05 Peterborough - Lowestoft with Des behind the wheel. Photo by Bruce.

The timetable seemed to be adhered to fairly well today and most services seen were heavily loaded. 37569 turned up (as expected) on Y6 05.50 from Yarmouth and it seems to have set a new record for retaining the same advert. The Spring Easy Jet campaign poster fitted on 2nd January this year is still in situ. What makes this more amusing is that the later Summer campaign included an advert for similar flights to Malaga, Faro & Alicante, but £1 dearer than those advertised on 569 ! Still at least the whole advert is still there unlike 37573 which still has only part of its Summer Easy Jet ad in place. Almost all the Easy Jet ads have now been replaced by one for the film Piranha in 3D.

Des was the driver of L9 today which was 20126 and Bruce was out with the video camera, however, should he have done the same for Y13 yesterday ? More anon. For the second day in a row 37568 was absent yet again, although to be fair it may have done L12 as this was not seen, but knowing 37568's reputation, 37564 or even 37565 were surely a better bet. The latter pair should both have been at Lowestoft this morning, whereas 568 went into Yarmouth on Thursday evening and wasn't seen on Friday. Incidentally, regular readers may be a little confused by my reference to L9. This is because on Saturdays diagrams 9 & 10 change origins with Y9 becoming L9 off Lowestoft garage and L10 starting at Yarmouth as Y10.

The reign of 37562 on the X1 came to an abrupt end in the early hours of this morning when it came in to King's Lynn on Y13. Tonight Robin reports it at Padmore Street in Worcester ! Turns out that Richard took it this morning, returning with Kidderminster Midland Red Paragon coach 20514 which is to be for X1 use for the next three weeks while 37571 is worked on. Now who could have predicted that one ?

There was another unexpected coach at King's Lynn tonight too, when 20121 - far from looking like a driver trainer - turned up in preparation for a private hire job tomorrow. It is to be whisked off back to Norwich on Monday though, before anyone gets any X1 ideas ! ......so King's Lynn went completely low floor for a few days then.