I was down at the BBC today, but a full days report was provided by Paul in Gorleston. Bruce did the same too and corrolation between the two reveals no discrepancies. For the record, 20107 was used on K14 and it was almost a full house for the B9 Geminis with only 37566 not being seen. Paul says "Didn't see 37574 for the second day running". In fact though, it did reappear from repairs today and took over K17 from 37577 at 16.30 after the latter was having problems again. 577 is due to be repaired by Volvo staff on Monday parts permitting.
Rob Brooks sent a morning report as follows : "37156 K18 0651 Wisbech - Lowestoft d 0658, 37158 K3 0718 Wisbech - Peterborough a0713 d0718, 37576 K19 0721 Wisbech - Lowestoft, 37572 K1 0700 Peterborough - Lowestoft, and 37567 K2 0730 Peterborough - Lowestoft.
Syd reports "37565 was the Lowestoft spare today and on arrival at Lowestoft from Bernard Mathews was 'borrowed' by the driver of Y13 who didnt want to take the slower 37160 on the 1848 departure from Lowestoft. 37160 prompty departed on the 1810 Ser 1 to Martham as result. This swop is unusual as it appears to have been decided by the staff on the ground and not officially sanctioned. No Controller is on duty at Lowestoft at this time of the evening and 37565 was intended to carry on with the booked diagram on the 1803 X2 as mentioned yesterday".
Tonight 37565 was seen on Y13 departing Lynn via the normal route, but then having to make a detour up to Hardwick Roundabout and back because of the Saddlebow slip road once again being closed. This weekend, X1s westbound will again need to take either this manouevre or divert through South Lynn.
Further afield Peter, who is on a three week USA holiday says "Re Tuesday's blog - glad the word is spreading... I think it's due to all your new American readers!! Left another four iPads spreading the gospel according to Gerard in Las Vegas Apple store today. Some of the locals look really puzzled when they see it......". Good Heavens Peter !
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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