Thursday 19th August 2010 ~ A Tale of Two Bridges (and a 99 !)

This imposing photograph of 37160 was taken at Wrentham this evening by James Race during its rare excursion to Southwold on the 99.

Yes, it's rush hour at Terrington St. John today. We almost had time to pop into the Woolpack for a quick one before the lights changed !  DS

Yesterday I went into detail about the Wisbech diversionary route now in operation and quite by coincidence, almost everything passed by my window today, indeed only four of a possible fifteen turns took the A1101 route. Special mention has to be made though of L10 10.48 Wisbech - Peterborough which surprised everyone by departing over Freedom Bridge then into the Old Market and over Town Bridge to regain the normal route, the Yarmouth driver obviously being unaware that he could have just gone down Nene Quay as normal. No surprise really then that he used the same route on his return, including the tight turn on to Town Bridge. 37570 was the bus and it was 7 late in both directions. After this there was a spell of badly delayed services, the 11.18 (L11) took the A1101 but was noted at the bus station on its return arriving 23 late with 37578. L12 , the 11.48 was 27 late with 37567 and then 23 late coming back, Y13 with 37564 was 20 late and K14 with 37157 (back to being noisy !) was 16 minutes late. Things then got back to normal with 37575 on K17 just 7 late.

As we reported yesterday Yarmouth ended up with a spare bus last night and surprisingly it was Lynn's 37160 which was rested - well not exactly rested it would seem ! Syd says "I took it on the 1803 X2 from Lowestoft to Beccles, but then James took charge and used it for the 2115 Service 99 to Southwold and back and the late Bernard Matthews contract. The first instance of a KLN allocated B7 Gemini to be so used. We both agreed it was a good bus and don't know why they are unpopular on the X1". Well there you are X1 people, a glowing testimonial.

Finally a footnote on today. There were no changes of vehicle on any of the diagrams and regular readers will know how rare that is!

One of our new readers, Paul says "Hi Gerard,  have recently discovered your X1 blog. I find it very interesting, people take the X1 for granted and it's not until you read the blog that you discover all the pitfalls. Today by the way K2 was 37563 which was about 10 mins late into Lowestoft at lunchtime & K3 20514 following was also about 10 minutes late in".