Thorney crash victim 37571 now seems to have settled down to working K17 and it has done the turn every day this week. Unfortunately, its wheel hub meter which gave roughly its correct mileage, has stopped working properly and with a different speedo in the cab, there is no easy way to check its amassed mileage. In fact the cab odometer reads 31,000 more than it should do ! Lynn seem to use these cab odometers for reference, whereas Lowestoft still pay heed to the wheel meters. 37568 has been fitted with a new one of these today, its actual mileage is 212,800 but of course the hub restarts at zero.
20121 continued its useful work on K3 today and my man at Yarmouth tells me that it may well be on loan until December, during which time 20128 is being used as the Yarmouth driver trainer. 20107 was used on K1 today and 37157 worked Y6 which is normally a B9 duty.
Des has kindly sent in a report for today and says "37564 - L10 15:35 Yarmouth to Lowestoft (delayed outside East Norfolk 6th Form College which is usual am and pm, it really is chaotic!), arrived Low 16:16 (6 late). Lowestoft town driver was waiting to take to garage and return with replacement, Sorry don't know what it was. (Twas 37568 Des, G )I have a snack break at Lowestoft and then take -
37566 - L11 16:55 Low to K/L - On time throughout. Weather was atrocious, Heavy rain and side winds.
Seen en route : 20115 on Nor to Gorl - 17:10 dep (Destination blind Gorleston). 20126 on Nor to Gorl - 17:40 dep (Destination blind Gt Yarmouth! - This bus is driven by the same driver every day. He operates from Gorleston Sixth Form to Bergh Apton & Alpington, light to Norwich. He always puts Gt Yarmouth on the destination, though 20126 is capable of showing Gorleston. I think that he deters passengers from boarding to Gorleston and can cut short the journey to finish early!).
20107 - K1 19:05 in Toftwood - Should arrive Great Yarmouth at 20:20 and garaged.
37569 - L8 21:35 K/L to Low (then light to Yarm) needed fuel and adblue (wet roads again!). It took me 10 mins to get fuel at K/L garage. Lost time made up by 22:37 Dereham. Then on time throughout".
Michael Bryant reports two consecutive X2s from Lowestoft with Geminis today, the 12.08 departure had 37156 and the 12.38 37568 which later took over L10.
37572 was at Lynn having its tacho calibrated today and strangely 37579, MOTd yesterday also failed to appear.
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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