Wednesday 22nd September 2010 ~ Fuelling Manouvres



37573 on local work at Great Yarmouth today. Photo from Des.



The intention to use 20107 on a school contract from Great Yarmouth was abandoned this afternoon when instead it took the 15.55 Lowestoft - Peterborough.

Yarmouth seemed to be at the hub of X1 events today. This morning, they somehow ended up with a spare Gemini. 37564 being the extra bus and this was used on Y9. It may have been sent to Yarmouth for MOT, but ended up in use and this gave 37573 the opportunity to have a day off the X1. Des says "37573 operated as follows :  07:00 Yarm depot, light to 07:40 Carlton Colville, Rectory Rd. Service 881 to East Norfolk 6th form. Light to G/Y 08.52 X1 to Norwich (09.40) to Yarmouth light (arr 10.15)  to depot arrive 10.20". Tonight 37573 ended up at Lowestoft.
Later this evening, Des and Syd both report that the Yarmouth fuel pump became defective, with buses having to go to Lowestoft for refuelling. Syd says "I dont have the fleet numbers involved, but to avoid you getting confused  two Elephants were simply swopped for re-fueled ones so if you get apparantly conflicting reports about where buses finished tonight, that is the reason behind it. I expect 37565 was involved as it was on the afternoon Bernard Mathews contract, then taken off the diagram and replaced with 34157 at 1745hrs, so should have been at Gasworks Road". So today not only was 37573 on Yarmouth locals and 37565 likewise at Lowestoft, also 37159 continued in local use at King's Lynn - its last X1 use was as long ago as 11th September.
On the nostalgia front, 34108 came out on L11 07.15 from Lowestoft and continued all day. 37564 however, did not and was eventually taken out of traffic after doing the first leg of Y9 with 20107 being provided as replacement. There were two other swaps involving B9s. 37570 on K1 was changed at Lynn at18.00 for 37575 which had been under the supervision of Volvo engineers today. Y13 with 37563 was changed at Lowestoft for 37565.