Monday 11th October 2010 ~ Set Your Watch

Set your watch by the X1 - surely not ? It all seemed to work marvellously today, so relief for Rosie & Co after Saturday's collapse. Timekeeping westbound from Wisbech today was nothing short of exemplary. The 09.18, 09.48, 10.48. 11.18 & 11.48 departures to Peterborough were all either on time or slightly early. I can't vouch for the 10.18 (Y9) as this went via Weasenham Lane with 37156 which had been resuscitated at Yarmouth.
 20121 is still doing a grand job helping out and this alone prevented an all low-floor day, she was seen entering Walsoken at 16.38 dead on time. At King's Lynn garage 37570 was kept in as expected, but 37578 was also off the road with a compressor problem. Once modifications and warranty work has been completed on the Lynn B9s, work will start on the Lowestoft examples which are also going to be worked on at Lynn. Today's most unusual event was the use of Lowestoft's 37569 on K15, a Lynn internal job, due to the non availability of 37570/8. 37570 should be back on Tuesday with 37577 being removed for attention.
Des writes : "Not much to report, I've been on a local shift that operated with 34111 - X1 - 08:52 Yarmouth to Norwich & 09.40 return. Then I managed to procure 20115 for the 16:37 Broadland Business Park to Norwich and 17:10 X1 Norwich to Gorleston. En route to Norwich at Burlingham at 16:10 spotted 37565 (Yarm driver) on time followed one car behind by 37575 (Lynn driver) 'Sorry, not in service' - No passengers! I reckon the Lynn driver didn't know the way to Low via A146!".
Well we have had quite a few new Lynn drivers of late Des, so probably so. 37575 was on L11 and 37565 on L12, so obviously 575 had been delayed somewhere. They had both been on time earlier, see above.