2010 continues to be a very black year for the surviving B10M coaches. Yesterday's incident involving 20127 may turn out to be terminal. It was explained to me this evening what had happened yesterday and, not being technically minded I only took half of it in, but it was something to do with (I think) the timing belt disintegrating and smashing the crankcase. Sounds very serious to me and tonight 127 was dumped at Rowan Road having been towed there at some stage and looking very defunct parked next to 20118.
This means then that only 20107 & 20126 are now still available for X1 standby. A pleasant surprise this morning was 20126 coming out to play on Y9 where 37568 had been expected.
Timekeeping was erratic today and there were several swaps, something which tends to happen every other Thursday as this is when several B9s fall due for servicing.
Tonight 37160 on the 16.15 from Lynn to Peterborough (K3) managed to lose 41 minutes and was only three minutes in front of K4 with 37566, itself around 15 minutes late. K5 with 37574 was also around 15 late when seen by Bruce and even into the early evening things were late, 37568 which deigned to appear on the second part of L8 was 15 down leaving Lynn on the 18.50 Peterborough. Earlier L8 had been viewed with a Lynn B9, believed to have been 37572.
Another swap at Lowestoft saw 37576 changed for 37579 on Y7 and 37577 on K15 was taken off for servicing at Lynn at just before half three with 37570 returning to service on the 15.32 departure to Lowestoft.
First thing this morning K19 (37573) was seen at Walpole 15 late and it was still 16 late this evening. Strangely 37562 was switched from its usual K17 turn and did K18, while Lowestoft based 37157 was rare power for K17.
This evening 37565 expired at Swaffham on L10 amidst much acrid smoke and a fitter had to attend and limp it back to Vancouver Avenue. 37160 which had just arrived at the bus station on the late running teminator K3 was requesitioned to work L10 forward to Peterborough at 19.50.
This is the unofficial blog for the Peterborough - Norwich XL bus service operated by First Group. Originally reporting the introduction of the 'Gemini' double deckers and the phasing out of coaches, the blog is now incredibly in its twelfth year and in 2021 the new fleet of state of the art double deckers enter their second year in traffic. To contact me with your observations/experiences on the XL, email gerardtcc@gmail.com .
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