Saturday 24th September 2011 ~ Chasing the X1

37565 storms out of Walton Highway on L12 12.35 Peterborough - Lowestoft today.

This morning began with a bit of a farce for me. Having agreed to give Mr. Robinson a lift to Walpole Highway to catch Y6 (the 08.33 to Peterborough), we were late leaving. To make sure he caught it, I diverted up West Drove to Walton Highway. We were just approaching the main road when 37576 went flying past a minute early ! Cue an  X1 chase.... 576 went non-stop through Walton, so we continued following her to Walton Road where passengers were waiting and by which time it was 2 early. I pulled in in front of 576 and duly despatched my passenger off to work.
Everything seen today appeared to run to time and as we haven't had a rundown of duties lately, this is where the X1 Geminis were working today :
37563 ~ Y7   37564 ~ Y13   37565 ~ L12   37566 ~ L8 /King's Lynn spare   37567 ~ K2   37568 ~ L8 from 09.15
37569 ~ K4   37570 ~ Y10   37571 ~ L11   37572 ~ K17   37573 ~ K15   37574 ~ K18
37575 ~ K1   37576 ~ Y6   37577 ~ K5   37578 ~ King's Lynn Spare   37579 ~ K19
37156 ~ Lowestoft spare   37157 ~ K3   37158 ~ L9   37159 ~ K14   37160 ~ K16
 The reason for 37566 being replaced by 37568 on L8 was to facilitate an exam on 566. The A47 at Eye reopened at about 19.00 last night after the excitement of yesterday afternoon.