Friday 3rd September 2010 ~ Banished

Yes today was one of those days where I had to change work location to the land of Norfolk Green', well Lincolnshire to be precise. Bruce did a grand job of ticking off the X1 diagrams and for a change, late running seemed to be few and far between. K1 had 20107, 37571 stuck to Lynn internal job K3 and K14 was provided with 20126.

Poor old girl,  but at least it wasn't terminal. Pic by Des

The day wasn't without incident though and Des says "20126 needed police assistance to control traffic and help evacuate passengers across the A47 to a waiting vehicle after it failed while working the 08.55 Lowestoft - Peterborough. It lost all air and would not move across the filter junction into Hockering. Traffic stopped in both directions to enable passengers to alight onto the main A47 and onto another bus that had been allowed to stop adjacent to 20126 in the Norwich bound lane but facing Dereham. 20126 was last seen awaiting recovery to Yarmouth". What a shame, still a loss of air is pretty easy to fix according to Bruce, so hopefully she will be back soon. Whether K14 was revived or there was a gap in the service is not known. This turn finishes with the 13.35 Peterborough - Lowestoft.

37565 at Caister Road, Great Yarmouth before being used on a Gorleston to Norwich working. (Grahame Bessey)

News from our chaps at Yarmouth comes that 37569 passed its MOT yesterday and today worked Y9. By this evening it had swapped turns with 37568 and this came in on Y9 with 569 on L10. Spare at Yarmouth as a result today was 37565 which Grahame informs me was utilised on the X1 shuttles. 37576 which arrived at Yarmouth on Tuesday night late has been off the road because somehow adblu got into its diesel tank, gungeing up all the injectors. Work is ongoing to get it back roadworthy.

37566 was not available for traffic today and is thought to have resided at Vancouver Avenue all day, otherwise it would probably have worked K14 after 20126's mishap. Finally a swap at half eight this evening when B7 37156 on Y6 was changed at Lynn for 37158 which had come in to the bus station on L11 just prior to this.