Paragon on Parade and THAT Gemini again !

Blimey, all of a sudden it's back to a daily blog ! Well almost, Grahame Bessey kindly sent me the photographs below of 20514 at Caister Road garage this morning, having been spruced up a bit with X1 vinyls at Full Circle, in the same style as on the B9s, but with additional emphasis on the Great Yarmouth - Norwich 'shorts'.

So it looks as though the step entrance Paragons will have something of a future on the short X1 runs for the time being.
Yesterday we mentioned Jim Long's sighting of FJ08FYN back in January and Jim tells me that 37562 has now been acquired from Ensign by First and stored at Dagenham pending entry to service ! My contact at 'First' enlarges on this saying that the full list of vehicles bought is as follows :

Enviro 400 SN60CAA (J57156): 
Enviro 200 AY08EKT : 
Enviro 200 EU60LFS (J52083): 
Enviro 200 FJ58YSL : 
Enviro 200 KX57BWF : 
Volvo B9TL FJ08FYN : 
Dart MX56HYP : 
Dart MX56HYO : 
Dart TBC
Enviro 200 YX08HJF : 
Enviro 400 VT59JPT : 

Most of these vehicles are expected to enter service with First Eastern shortly, although final allocations have not been decided as yet. It will be interesting to see if, as Jim suggests, the two Enviro 400s are kept as back up for the X1.
Thanks to Jim and to our man at 'First' for this information.