Wednesday 29th September 2010 ~ Get Those L Plates Off !

As we suspected yesterday, 20121 had indeed come over to Lynn for X1 use. With its L plates removed, blinds and ticket machine fitted, it was used today on K3. This was the turn which a few weeks ago was regularly covered by Paragon loanee 20514. The turn finishes with the 17.40 Peterborough - King's Lynn.
Marcus emailed to say he had seen it this morning and followed it from Eye to Thorney and Tony Irle says it was seeen at Queensgate on the 17.40 tonight.
Des has drawn my attention to an interesting webcam for King's Lynn commuters - it is also quite useful for X1 bloggers too !
http://www.cts-security.co.uk/pages/southgates-web-cam.php

37564 returned to service after MOT today. Yarmouth sent it out in Y13 and I saw it at 14.06 crossing Wisbech Town Bridge eastbound, probably with the same driver who used this route yesterday. It was removed at Lynn and replaced by 37156 which had been unavailable first thing because of a starter fault. K4 with 37572 did not go to Peterborough at 16.45 for some reason and 572 retired to the depot. The diagram resumed as the 19.35 to Lowestoft with 37564, but this didn't leave until 19.57.
There was an imbalance of vehicles today with three non - low floor services starting at Lynn. 121 on K3, K1 with 'The Beast' and 34108 on K14. 37159 was back on the X1 on K18 and 37160 was rested from long distance work. Over at Yarmouth, the release of 37564 left 37578 spare. Lowestoft had 37567 for servicing and still no sign of 37566.
After several days of very good punctuality, today was awful ! L11 with 37568 (what else) was 31 late from Wisbech on the 11.18 to Peterborough and the 11.48 (L12) with 37575 was 24 late. K14 with 34108 was 14 late and the next westbound service seen was 37159 on K18 which was 20 late. Tonight L8 18.50 from Lynn to Peterborough was 13 late with 37576, but refreshingly 568 had regained all its lost time on L11.