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Former Caroline Seagull AEC Reliance 531FN is in the news once more. Line up of Caroline Seagull vehicles at their South Denes site in April 2008 The ex Great Yarmouth based vehicle is featured in the March 2012 issue of Buses complete with photo. It shows her in a mainly yellow livery on party bus duties at Marble Arch in London during November last.She became a

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Most of Monday was spent in Peterborough. Whilst the 'better half' did some shopping I was allowed off the leash to observe some Peterborough bus operations! My first location for photographs was at the cold and very windy location of Bourges Boulevard next to the pedestrian crossing at Bridge Street. The first photo is of a Stagecoach East Transbus 22339 (AE51RZT) at the stand on the 46

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Grahame Bessey reports the arrival of W600JSB at Caister on Sea operator Reynolds Coaches. The vehicle is a Mercedes Benz Vario 0814D with Plaxton Beaver B31F bodywork and is currently in all over white livery. W600JSB has a a liitle history in that she was originally registered W60CBC when with Coakley of Motherwell in Scotland. Reynolds obtained it from Whitegate Travel of Anderton in Cheshire

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F50ACL in use with Blue Buses On the Anglia & Thames Valley Bus Forum it has been reported that a former Great Yarmouth Blue Buses Volvo B10M/Alexander RV double decker came off the B1086 St Ives Road on Friday. The vehicle concerned is believed to be either F50ACL or F51ACL. Both are currently owned by Dews of Somersham. A report, including accompanying photo, appeared in Fiday's Wisbech

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Some observations on this afternoon's/evening's activities which may be of interest to blog readers. Firstly, with the start of the school contracts in last September, there are now only limited workings through Market Gates Bus Station by Swift Coaches. However, Iveco minibus 76 (YX51JPY) and Volvo B10M 116 (GLZ3141) continue to make regular appearances on services following the end of the

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Sister vehicle Trident 33007 (LK51UZE) in Norwich's Castle Meadow in January 2011  A Dennis Trident caught fire on its return to Norwich following an MOT at Great Yarmouth's Caister Road depot on Tuesday. There were no passengers on board at the time. The bus was entering Norwich on the A1042 Postwick slip road off the A47. It is the secondTrident to catch fire in the vicinity in the last

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During yesterday afternoon two of Shearings coaches were noted dropping off their passengers at Great Yarmouth's Carlton Hotel. Grand Tourer liveried Setra 109 (BK09RNF) led blue 229 (BF10VCZ) into Kimberley Terrace from Marine Parade to unload

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Volvo B10M 7289DD, Dennis Javelin's  BIG9853 and CHZ4796 at  Reynolds' Ormesby Road garage in the village  I visited Reynolds Coaches of Caister during yesterday afternoon and some twelve vehicles were seen and photographed. The visit was made in the early afternoon so that only a limited number of vehicles had departed on schools/college duties. Toyota Coaster BIG8781

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Snow fell in the Great Yarmouth area during early Sunday morning (5th February) and a lot of the white stuff still remained today. An opportunity then for some pictures of buses in the snow! The first photo is of  First's Volvo B7TL 32206 (LT52WTL) travelling eastwards on Beaconsfield Road on the service 8 to Caister. Some ten minutes later another B7TL

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First Group, the main provider and organiser of bus/coach travel for the London 2012 Olympic Games, has launched its new online booking website. In addition to providing Park & Ride services to and from the main Olympic venues including Olympic Park, ExCeL, Weymouth and Portland, Lee Valley White Water Centre, Hadleigh Farm, Eton Dorney and Greenwich Park, they will also be running special coach

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A brief visit to a very cold and miserable Beach Coach Station this afternoon revealed two vehicles on site. Lowestoft-based Belle Coaches Mercedes Tourismo 17 (BC10BEL) (above) was keeping company with National Holidays Volvo B10M 49 (YC02CFX).

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The March 2012 issue of Bus & Coach Preservation contains articles of  interest to the Great Yarmouth bus enthusiast. Firstly, there's a feature on the recent extensive restoration of a 1964 former Great Yarmouth Corporation Pennine-bodied AEC Reliance. David Jukes reports on the work undertaken at the East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville. The centre spread is of  AEX85B passing St

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Norfolk bus operator Sanders is to increase all of its fares by a minimum of ten per cent from tomorrow. (Sunday) The new fares, announced on its website, are due to rising fuel costs and a twenty per cent reduction in bus service operator grant received by the company. The statement indicated that it was the first increase since November 2010 and that the combined costs to Sanders was 'in

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No less than three Shearings' Setras dropped off their passengers at Great Yarmouth's Carlton Hotel late this afternoon following their respective outings. The first two arrived together and both wore Grand Tourer branding; 109 (BK109RNF) led 206 (BK10EJG) into Kimberley Terrace from Marine Parade and both are seen above unloading passengers at the Carlton's main entrance.

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Previously unreported is the news that First's Leyland Olympian 34333 H132 FLX departed Caister Road on the afternoon of  17th January. The surprise is that she was destined for Colchester for further use and not the scrapyard! On arrival she had to be reversed into the depot from the yard end as she is too high for access via Queen Street. Late yesterday afternoon, she was observed working

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On a flyimg visit to town this afternoon, I observed Belle Coaches Mercedes Vario 49 (BE10LLE) sheltering from the rain beneath Market Gates Shopping Centre.

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After almost a week out out of circulation (due to illness) I decided to visit Great Yarmouth to see what was on offer buswise. An early afternoon visit to Beach Coach Station yielded nothing, although two First double deckers on Bernard Matthews workings stopped outside on Nelson Road North to pick up passengers. They were Volvo B7TL 30889 (W744DWX) and Volvo Olympian 34186 (

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Earlier in the month the East Anglia Transport Museum, based at Carlton Colville in Lowestoft, announced details of its events planned for 2012. The museum will be marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the London Trolleybus system over the May Bank Holiday weekend. As part of the celebrations a number of visiting London Trolleybuses and London Buses will be in attendance. In June, the bus

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SE51DZV at Copyfax Yard in December 2010 Following the sale of ten of its vehicles by auction in August last year, Swift have announced that they wish to dispose of the only double decker in their fleet. The vehicle in question is 130 (SE51DZV), a Jonckhere Monaco bodied Volvo B12BT. Originally purchased for school contract work, the vehicle has seen little use recently and is currently at

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Graham Bessey writes to inform me that he visited a sunny Dereham on Friday and has supplied some photos of workings there for the blog. The first is that of Konect's new ADL Enviro 605 (SN61CZV) in the new 'konect express 8 livery' arriving at Dereham Market Place. The next of the Enviros to make an appearance on the route was 609 (SN61CZZ) During the visit,

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The Ipswich Evening Star reported on Friday that First is to withdraw its bus services in Bury St Edmunds and also close its depot in the town. First issued a statement saying “Operations at Bury St Edmunds have not been commercially viable for some considerable time, and with continued cost increases facing the industry plus the Government’s decision to reduce the BSOG (Bus Service Operators

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Regular visitor last year was Volvo B10M J689LGA Swavesey operator Whippet Coaches have recently announced details of their 2012 coastal services. Three of the eight services will terminate in Great Yarmouth:- The weekday Service A between Huntingdon Bus Station and Great Yarmouth commences from 1st May with all passengers needing to change at Newmarket. The Saturday service begins on 14th

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Former Swift Dennis Dart S511XCR is now in service with new owners Shaws of Maxey. Its Caetano Compass bodywork is now mainly in a white livery complete with a blue skirt. It is pictured at Shaws' premises yesterday. The vehicle was acquired by Great Yarmouth-based Swift from Amza of Blofield who, in turn, purchased it new in January 1999 My thanks to Mark Kirk for the

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Sixteen bus services in Norfolk are to lose subsidies from the County Council as it looks to save half a million pounds. It will mean fewer services on those routes, with journeys in the evenings and on Sundays among the trips being lost. The county council had put the routes out for consultation, but has not altered its original plans as a result and is set to agree the cuts when it sets its

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Spent some time in Lowestoft today and in between the shopping there was some time for some observations in the Gordon Road area in or near the bus station. As I arrived, the 13.38 X2 left Lowestoft for Norwich worked by First's 32656 (AU05MVA) shown above. A number of these ALX400s were transferred to X2 duties in early December following poor performance by the Volvo/

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Early this morning a tour round Great Yarmouth's  usual haunts for coaches revealed two National Holiday representatives. YC02CFK was seen on Marine Parade heading for the Carlton Hotel to pick up passengers at the end of their tour. The photo shows the Volvo B12M outside the hotel awaiting luggage for the homeward journey. Meanwhile, sister NH05CDH was the sole occupant at Beach Coach

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Newly transferred to Caister Road , B7TL 32213 seen on a visit to the town in October 2011 whilst based at Lowestoft Fleet Re-allocations Grahame Bessey reports that First Suffolk & Norfolk made some re-allocations to its local fleet over the holiday period. Former Kings Lynn stalwart 30888 (W743DWX) has moved from Great Yarmouth to First Essex. In its place comes another Volvo

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The first eastnorfolkbus blog on 3rd January 2011 Today is the blog's first birthday. It doesn't seem that long since I started on this journey and what a journey it has been. Whilst the number of visits to the blog haven't been earth shattering, the number  received has been surprisingly high. As expected, most of the page views (80 per cent) have come from persons based in the United Kingdom

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Breezing in to Great Yarmouth on the last day of 2011 was an unusual visitor from the south coast of England. Seen at Beach Coach Station mid-afternoon was Brighton & Hove's Scania Irizar 503 (YR58RUH). Sister vehicle 502 (HF08UHT) also visited Great Yarmouth on the 15th August this year

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As the year draws to a close it is time to reflect on what has happened on the local bus scene during 2011. First Eastern Counties  One of the last step entrance darts in use in Great Yarmouth 2011 began with Great Yarmouth's Caister Road depot still using two step entrance Darts on local services but both had gone by the end of February. February also saw Flying Banana Routemaster

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Quite a number of visitors have been seen in the Great Yarmouth area over the Christmas Day/Boxing Day period; three Shearings coaches have been amongst them. Observed on Marine Parade in Great Yarmouth during the afternoon of Boxing Day were 109 (BK09RNF), 229 (BF10VCZ) (pictured above) and 509 (MX03ABF). Their passengers were enjoying their stay at the nearby Carlton Hotel.

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Former Caroline Seagull G470LVG, now with Swift Taxis East Norfolk Bus would like to wish readers/followers of the blog a merry Christmas and a happy new year! I tentatively started the blog in early January of this year and initially thought that I would run out of things to say and photograph within weeks - how wrong can you be! Thanks to the support of Grahame Bessey, Syd Eade, Stephen

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Yesterday saw a visit to Norwich for some last minute Christmas shopping. It also provided the opportunity for some more pictures! The first picture is that of Simonds Volvo B10M SLK886 on St Stephen's Street. This vehicle has had many previous guises including K289GDT and A9HRR Coach Services Scania YN04YJA followed closely behind displaying 'CS66 Stanton' on its destination

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First Eastern Counties operates its 6B service between Market Gates Bus Station and Belton via Bradwell and Mallard Way on Mondays to Fridays during school and college days. It comprises an 08:00 Belton to Great Yarmouth and a 15:20 return from Market Gates. Surprisingly, as schools have finished for the holiday period,  it was operating again yesterday afternoon despite the

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A call into Great Yarmouth's Beach Coach Station at around 2.15 yesterday afternoon coincided with some busy activity. At the coach station there were only two vehicles on view; National Holidays B12M 658 (NH04JCH) and Shearings Grand Tourer Setra 109 (BK09RNF) As I was photographing the twosome, a convoy of buses on contract workings headed towards the pick up point outside

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Click on the picture to view the film Regular contributor Syd Eade has drawn my attention to a film appearing on the University of East Anglia's Film Archive website showing Eastern Counties Omnibus Company activities during 1947. Entitled A Busman's Day, it begins by showing the Social Club Committee sitting around a table having a discussion and includes some close up shots of some of its 

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A trip to Great Yarmouth on a cold sunny afternoon began with a ride on one of Anglian's 57 registered Scania deckers from Gorleston High Street. I sat on the bottom deck which was decorated with Christmas trimmings! On arrival at Market Gates, I was met by what appeared to be an abandoned Setra oustside the Troll Cart public house. It was EDZ114 of  Norwich-based Avanti Coaches and minutes

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Beccles - based Anglian Bus operates two services through Gorleston, a major urban part of Great Yarmouth. As expected they both serve the main shopping area of the High Street.  Anglian's 440 AN61BUS lays over at Church Lane terminus in Gorleston   The first appearance of Anglian vehicles in Gorleston was with the introduction of its hourly interval A47 route

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My main reason for visiting Great Yarmouth this afternoon was to photo Anglian's loaned gas bus on the 601 service between Great Yarmouth and Southwold, but I was unsuccessful! However, in between the scheduled 601 services I visited Beach Coach Station - again I drew a blank as no coaches were on site. However, as I backtracked to the town centre a Chenery's Setra was driving towards me

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Anglian Bus have stated on their Facebook page that they will be trialling a single deck MAN Ecocity branded gas bus. Registered as WX61FXO, it is to be used on the following routes from 8th to 23rd December 2011:- Service 525 on 8th & 9th Dec Service 601 on 12th/13th/15th/16th Dec Service 588 on 19th/20th/21st/22nd Dec Grahame Bessey recorded W61FXO on the 525 earlier today at Lowestoft's

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Regular contributor Grahame Bessey spent a few hours in a chilly Norwich on Monday to catch up on recent developments. Following First's recent transfer of ALX 400s onto X2 servies (as already report here) Grahame photographed 32656 (AU05MVA) waiting to depart for the coast at Norwich Bus Station. Also present at there was Chenery's Volvo B9 FJ11MKC awaiting its next duty; 

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Unusually for a Monday afternoon, I took a trip into Great Yarmouth and found a number of visiting coaches present around the town. At Beach Coach Station there was just the one solitary vehicle present and that was National Holidays Setra 163 (NH09PRH). She didn't stay long as when I passed two hours later she had gone! An hour later I noted two Simonds coaches in the coach

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The latest issue of Bus & Coach Preservation includes an article by David Jukes on the restoration of two of Lowestoft's double deckers. These are the privately owned Leyland PD2A No 12 (PBJ2F) and East Anglia Transport Museum's AEC Regent No 8 (918NRT). In a second article John G Lidstone looks at Southend's ex-London wartime Daimlers and meets the sole survivor 263 (GLX913) on its return to

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The Volvo B7s/Plaxton Presidents acquired from London have not been a success on the X2 Lowestoft-Norwich service with reliability being poor.  So on the evening of Friday 2nd December five of them were replaced with ALX400s 32651/2/4/5/6(AU05MUO/P/W/Y/VA). Presidents 32212/3/4 (LT52WTV/W/X) went direct to Norwich and 32207/8 (LT52WTN/O) should now be at Great Yarmouth's Caister Road allowing

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This afternoon I travelled back from Great Yarmouth via the golden mile (Marine Parade) and saw a National Holidays' coach unloading passengers outside the Carlton Hotel. I identified it as one of their Volvo B12M's - 564 (YJ03VNA). My photo shows the Volvo leaving the hotel bound for its night's stay at Beach Coach Station; the only resident there when I passed later in the

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Early this afternoon I observed two Chenery coaches in Great Yarmouth with the first being Setra BNG444Y. It was completely devoid of any fleetnames and could only be identified through its legal lettering. It looked as if had recently undergone a repaint. The plate was originally used on Chenery's previously owned Bedford YNT Arriving at Beach Coach Station at around 14:10,

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As the first day of December arrives everyones thoughts turn to Christmas. So I thought I would use Silent Night as the title to illustrate the latest set of pictures sent to me by Syd Eade. The photos were taken in the very early hours of the morning and reflect a period of quietness not usally seen at bus depots during the normal working day. The scene is early Tuesday

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Beach Coach Station Housing Plan Norfolk County Council has agreed a loan of just over £2 million to fund the development of the Beach Coach station car park. The money is to be used to build 19 homes at the car park which is located at the northern end of the site. It will also fund a new entrance to the site. The full story can be found here Two Belles Two Setras from Belle Coaches were

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With Christmas almost a month away (oh no I hear you say!) a timely visit was made yesterday to the Lakeside Shopping Centre in Thurrock, Essex. As well as the shopping, there was also an opportunity to view bus activity serving the centre. The principal operator is the family owned business of Ensign - also well known as one of the UK's largest used bus dealers. So having 

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Noted at Birchanger Services, near Stansted Airport yesterday evening, was former London Transport Routemaster RML 2498 (JJD498D). Owned by Wecome Break, the Routemaster had been used as a coffee bar at a number of  their locations. RML 2498 was promoting the BBC's Children In Need appeal.

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I spent a little time in Norwich today on business but it did allow for some observations around the city centre. Konnectbus was using MAL96 BD57WCZ on the Costessey Park and Ride and is pictured above at St Stephen's roundabout. She is still in red livery with 'part of the Go Ahead Group' displayed on the both of the two vehicles next to the bendi join on the drivers side. '

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Further changes to some Great Yarmouth area routes have been registered by First Eastern Counties during the month and a brief summary of them is as follows:- 1.     PF0000333/92 - FIRST EASTERN COUNTIES BUSES LTD, ROUEN HOUSE, ROUEN ROAD, NORWICH, NR1 1RB              Variation Accepted: Operating between Cliff Park/JPH and Barrack Estate given service number 1/2 effective from 03-Jan-2012. To

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The importance of Norfolk County Council's Fair Fares Concessionary Travel Scheme campaign is highlighted in a report to be presented to its Cabinet today which warns of higher costs during the next financial year. In the current year the Government allocation to Norfolk is £7.3m - some £4.5m short of the actual coat of running the Scheme. The County Council and bus operators have agreed to

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Yesterday meant a day in Bury St Edmunds and the opportunity to view the new BREEZE branded town services operated by Stephensons of Essex. However, my first sighting was that of First Eastern Counties Dart 43475 (R475CAH ) on the the 83 service to Westley Court pictured on St Andrews Street South. Then, before I could get my first picture of one of the new BREEZE vehicles,

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Surprise news from Great Yarmouth's Caister Road depot is the reinstatement of First Eastern Counties Leyland Olympian 34333 (H132FLX), less than a month after withdrawl. After a safety service and check (which really only required replacing bulbs etc that had been canabilised from her since withdrawal) she was back on the road again yesterday afternoon on Bernard Matthews duties.

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As reported on the blog yesterday, Anglian's fifth former Stagecoach London Trident is now in service. Sporting its new Anglian colours, V161MEV was seen arriving at Lowestoft Bus Station on the 525 service during this afternoon. Syd Eade was on hand to record the event.  V161MEV's centre door has been removed and the driver says that it now has 88 seats. (the fleetlist says 80!). The vehicle

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Beccles-based Anglianbus, which operates on many routes through the East Norfolk area has recently published its latest fleetlist on its website. Line up of Anglian vehicles at Ellough depot in Beccles in July last year The three new Scania Omnilinks have been registered AN61LAN (439), AN61BUS (440) and AU61AVK (441). Number 439 is operating from Beccles whilst 440 and 441

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Great Yarmouth's Swift Taxis was using a newly acquired Volvo B10M on Sprowston School and other services during late October. 491JVX is a 50 seater with Plaxton bodywork and was formerly registered M124UWY. As such she was new to Wallace Arnold way back in March 1995. 491JVX has now received Swift fleet number 116 and is named Swift Quail Swift Quail is pictured here on

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Wednesday is market day in Great Yarmouth which normally attracts a small number of visiting coaches. Today was no exception. Lowestoft-based Belle Coaches usually runs a shoppers service from Lowestoft to the town and today this brought Setra 04 (LIL9713) to Great Yarmouth.  She is seen here just after lunch at Market Gates Bus Station loading passengers for the return journey. The vehicle

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Driving along Great Yarmouth's Golden Mile at lunchtime today I observed three of Shearings Setras in close proximity to the Carlton Hotel. All were in Grand Tourer livery with two of them parked immediately outside the hotel in Kimberley Place. The two there awaiting their passengers were 101 (BK09RMV) above and 201 (BK10EJA) below. The third Setra 305 (

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More than half a century since it was new to Great Yarmouth Corporation, Leyland PD2 No 66 (EX6566) briefly returned to its former Caister Road depot on Saturday last. Its current owners, the East Anglia Transport Museum, was using it to collect some redundant bus glazing items . The glazing items were previously used on some 1960's/1970's period vehicles and some will be used

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Public transport users in Great Yarmouth and the surrounding area have the chance of having their voices heard at a forthcoming special public meeting. The East Norfolk Transport Users' Association has lined up speakers from the area's leading transport providers which will give the opportunity for members of the public to raise their concerns about local rail and bus services. Representatives

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Nottingham City Coaches FP02YDK was parked up at Great Yarmouth's Beach Coach Station early yesterday afternoon. She was one of nine on site at the time - a relatively high number considering that summer has long gone.

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I am pleased to offer to blog readers an Eastern Counties Omnibus fleet list history and, what's more, its absolutely FREE! Regular contributor Syd Eade has provided this fleet list showing all the buses owned by Eastern Counties and its associated companies (eg Great Yarmouth Transport, Flying Banana Buses etc). The listing also includes vehicle disposal details too. Syd has prepared the

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First Eastern Counties Leyland Olympian 34333 (H132FLX) has finally been withdrawn at Great Yarmouth's Caister Road depot. This was the last Leyland Olympian in service with First Eastern Counties. Originally expected to be withdrawn at the end of August, she has limped along (no pun intended!) until mid October. H132FLX last saw use on Friday 14th October before being parked up for the final

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I visited Beccles yesterday afternoon to note any changes since my last visit on 29th September, almost three weeks ago. My first port of call was the Sir John Leman School where an Anglian Scania Omnicity was present on the forecourt. Shortly before 3pm Nightingale's orange liveried Leyland Olympian F633LMJ arrived; to be followed shortly thereafter by Belle Coaches' Van Hool NJI9244.

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This weekend saw a further visit to the Midlands, this time centred on Lichfield in Staffordshire. Again there was the chance of viewing some bus activity! What better place to view the comings and goings than the smallish bus station opposite Lichfield City Railway Station. However, with its north east/south west alignment it wasn't very good for afternoon photos with the camera facing directly

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Anglian was using a StreetLite on its 581 service yesterday on the 16.00 from Great Yarmouth to Beccles. Nothing unusual in that I hear you say, but this time it was white MX60GXC which was captured passing bhs on Regent Road in the town. The StreetLite has been given fleet number 327 by Anglian and it is not known whether it's on loan or has been acquired by the Beccles-based

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Good news for East Norfolk residents is that the Postwick Park and Ride is to reopen on Saturdays from 22nd October in time for the run up to Christmas. Saturday services were suspended last April as part of Norfolk County Council's overall spending reductions. A report in yesterday's Eastern Daily Press says that by linking two services  buses will alternate between Postwick

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An early afternoon visit to Great Yarmouth's Beach Coach Station revealed only one coach present; one of Shearings' Setras. It was 127 (BK09LUT) which is pictured at rest on a gloomy afternoon - at least it wasn't raining!

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Grahame Bessey reports that Anglian's latest Trident arrival was in Lowestoft Bus Station late yesterday afternoon returning to Beccles on the 525 service. Still in London red colours, No. 511 (X384NNO) had just worked the 525A schools service from Sir John Leman School in Beccles to Carlton Colville in Lowestoft. My thanks to Grahame for the information and photograph (©

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Tim Major reports that he was on a tour of inspections in the rural area of Great Yarmouth and came across this spectacle! It was a former Great Yarmouth Transport Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 single decker and fortunately Tim had his camera with him to record the event. GEX740F (formerly number 40 in the fleet) was one of three purchased by the Great Yarmouth undertaking in March 1968. They were

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The gloriously warm weekend weather coincided with a short break in the East Birmingham area. In addition to catching up with friends and family, I did manage a few bus photo opportunities! Arriving in Coleshill (east of Birmingham off Junction 4 of the M6) on Saturday afternoon, I caught sight of Arriva Midlands North Scania 3809 (YN08HZW) in the High Street on the 115 Tamworth to Coleshill

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Yesterday (Thursday 29th) Norfolk County Council published proposed changes to rural transport services, aimed at saving £500,000 next year (2012-13), for consultation with passengers and local communities. Pressure on the rural transport budget has become intense because of reductions in Government grant for public transport, and the Government's failure to fully fund the Concessionary Travel

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Norfolk County Council has launched a campaign backed by councillors, businesses and MPs to persuade the Government to fairly fund the concessionary bus scheme in Norfolk. The County Council has identified a £4.5 million shortfall in funding for the scheme - which allows pass holders to travel free on buses - and be told how the gap is putting extreme pressure on maintaining rural bus services.

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Following a Scania dealer visit in September, three Omnilinks were noted in a yellow based livery which has subsequently been identified as the order placed by Beccles-based Anglianbus. The registrations are YT61FFA/B/C but no fleet numbers are allocated at the moment. It is believed that they will be based at Anglian's Rackheath depot for use on Norwich services. For Jamie Vendy's exclusive

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Another glorious indian summer's day and an afternoon's visit to another Suffolk market town. This time the spotlight falls on Beccles, just over the Norfolk border. The main reason for the visit was to hunt down Nightingales Leyland Olympian F633LMJ. Having noted earlier in the day on east-anglia-buses yahoo group that it is normally parked close to the Sir John Leman School, I set about

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Three of the National Holidays fleet were to be found at Beach Coach Station yesterday. They were Setra 155 (NH09GRH), Volvo 555 (YJ03VML)  and Volvo 752 (NH05CDH). The first two are shown below enjoying a slightly misty indian summer.

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A visit to another Suffolk seaside town in lovely weather. This time it was Felixstowe on Sunday. It proved to be an desert for bus activity with only one vehicle seen throughout the day. That was First Eastern Counties' Volvo B7TL 32491 (AU53HKJ) pictured here in Hamilton Road on its way into the Suffolk town. The service was the 75 route between Ipswich and Felixstowe which

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As it was a mild sunny day, I decided to spend the afternoon in Lowestoft. On both X1 journeys to and from  the Suffolk town I was lucky in claiming one of the upstairs front seats on the Gemini! After arriving at Lowestoft Bus Station, I wandered along the High Street window shopping on my way to the seafront. Near the railway station I noted Belle Coaches 42 (LIL9714) heading southbound.

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Two of the seven coaches at Great Yarmouth's Beach Coach Station this afternoon were operated by National Holidays The vehicles were (left to right) NH05CDH and YC02CFV - both regular visitors to the resort.

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As National Express East Anglia runs its summer holiday trains from London to the town until the end of the month, Reynolds continues to provide a shuttle service between the station and holiday centres in Great Yarmouth, Caister, California and Hemsby. Today the service was being provided by their Dennis Javelin CHZ4796 (formerly J799FTS) which is seen outside the station

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Wednesday is market day in Great Yarmouth and yesterday it also coincided with horse racing at the local racecourse. The day was part of the course's three day Eastern Festival which helped to swell the number of coaches at the town's coach station. Two Shearings coaches were on display - Volvo B12M 507 (MX03 AAY) and regular visitor Setra 217 (BF10VCK). The former is shown below. From the north

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In addition to the Norwich Bus Rally, this weekend also saw the East Anglia Transport Museum hold its Trolleybus Gala Weekend. Despite this, the museum reports a successful two day event. All available trolleybuses were in service including the two Newcastle Corporation examples 628 (NBB628) and 501 (LTN501). The latter is on loan from the Beamish Museum. The event also saw

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Great Yarmouth's Beach Coach station witnessed an unusual visitor yesterday afternoon. It was in the form of an Iveco Euromidi registered FN02VBK. The vehicle is owned by SM Coaches of Harlow and has Indcar Maxim bodywork capable of accommodating 29 passengers . The vehicle was one of only eight at the site - possibly an indication that summer is nearing its end (if it hasn't ended already!)

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A total of 40 buses and coaches attended this year's Norwich Bus Rally which was held at the Norfolk Showground on the outskirts of Norwich on Sunday . Mark P visited the rally and has provided some photographs of old and not so old vehicles in attendance. First up is the former Eastern Counties Omnibus Company's Bristol RELL WNG864H. She has Eastern Coach Works bodywork. Also on show was one

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After being out of public view for the last 25 years, Lowestoft Corporation No 12 is now back on the road. She was unveiled this weekend at the East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville prior to attending the Norwich Bus Rally on Sunday. No 12 has the registration PBJ2F and is a Leyland PD2 with Massey H34/28R bodywork. I understand  that almost all other PDs with the St

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Reynolds Coaches of Caister-on-Sea has acquired DAF/Caetano KBZ3167. Grahame Bessey was on hand to photograph it at Ormesby Road on Friday morning (9th September) prior to operating a schools service. Volvo BIG9836, which bears the name Lady Georgina, has been painted into a silver colour scheme. My thanks to Grahame for the report and picture. Meanwhile, another Reynolds'

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The last of the three First Eastern Counties Routemasters have now left Great Yarmouth's Caister Road depot. The blue and cream liveried RML 2717 (SMK717F) left the town yesterday afternoon on a low loader bound for Glasgow, having been purchased by a private buyer. RML 2717 was painted into 'Great Yarmouth Transport' colours but the colour scheme didn't really match the original livery. The

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Yesterday I made a visit to Great Yarmouth and I found it to be one of those in-between days - neither summer nor autumn. (although the cooler, wet and dull day pointed towards the latter!) Operational wise, the two seafront routes operated by Swift and Our Bus had ceased although the seasonal First Eastern Counties half hourly service between Hemsby Beach and Great Yarmouth continues to run.

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As you may have seen in the two previous postings, Anglianbus has acquired three former Stagecoach London Alexander ALX400 bodied Dennis Tridents from Ensignbus. So far only two of the Anglan liveried vehicles have been noted in service and both have been featured on this blog with pictures from Grahame Bessey and Syd Eade. For the record these two vehicles are 508 X251NNO and 510 X386NNO. The

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Syd Eade was out and about in Lowestoft and Norwich today and noted some interesting developments. Firstly, before heading to the 'Fine City' he photographed the second of Anglian's Tridents (X251NNO) on Lowestoft's Denmark Road heading for Southwold on the 601 service. Whilst in Norwich this afternoon he saw one of  First Eastern Counties new Gemini's straying  from its normal 25/35 duties.

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Grahame Bessey passed the Anglian depot at Ellough in Beccles yesterday and noted two former Stagecoach London Dennis Trident/Alexander double deckers on site. One was in Anglian livery (X386NNO) whilst the other still retains its London Red livery. Grahame caught the former, complete with fleetnumber 510. departing Lowestoft Bus Station on the 601 service to Southwold yesterday. Photograph ©

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With the summer season drawing to a close, local operators have been busy in the last couple of months registering changes to local bus services. Anglianbus 1.          PF0000333/63 - ANGLIAN BUS LTD, BECCLES BUSINESS PARK, BECCLES, NR31 7TH Variation accepted by SN: Operating between Blofield Heath and Gt Yarmouth/Gt Yarmouth College given service number A47/830 effective from 05-Sep-2011. To

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After a bank holiday away from the hobby, I went into Great Yarmouth this afternoon to see what I could find. As my Dart was pulling into the Market Gates Bus Station, I saw an Olympian ahead of me on the stand reserved for the Hemsby Beach - Great Yarmouth Town Centre service 3. It was First's 34333 (H132FLX) which is still giving sterling service. As it was parked in the gloom of the bus

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Some unusual visitors to Beach Coach Station this afternoon comprised:-Norse's 60 reg Volvo B12M YN60BZH pictured below Nottingham City Coaches YN07DZG - picture and report on yesterday's post Peelings JJZ8021 adorned with the Norfolk Mariner name - shown below Regular visitors to the coach station also included:- Belle Coaches  Setra 33 (LIL9715) and Scania 42 (LIL9714) Shearings Volvo B12M

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Today was a typical August summer's day in Great Yarmouth (wet and overcast!) Beach Coach Station In spite of the glorious (!) weather eleven vehicles took up residence this afternoon at Beach Coach Station this afternoon. Included amongst them were: Two from Whippet  - SF05XYZ on Coastal Service A and H19WCL on Coastal Service H. Smith Coaches L8SLT        Beestons Scania 222GRA       

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Following the sighting of Newcastle Trolleybus LTN501 on the A17 at Long Sutton on Sunday afternoon, I contacted a member of the East Anglia Transport Museum to confirm the vehicle's destination.  Newcastle Corporation 628 (NBB628) at Carlton Colville in July 2010 He confirmed that LTN501 had arrived at Carlton Colville on Sunday night. She will be the main attraction of the Trolleybus

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Grahame reports that Dart 43434 (P434NEX) went to Erith Commercials of Dartford in Kent for scrapping last week following withdrawl. A second example 42445 (P445TCV) has moved south to First Essex. Olympian 34333 (H132FLX) on a Great Yarmouth seafront service in summer 2009 Regarding the Olympians reported at the rear of the depot in an earlier post, it appears that there are no plans to

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Readers may be aware the North Norfolk-based Sanders have recently acquired three new double-deckers ex-Reading Transport. They are Scania Omnidekkas with East Lancs bodywork and registered YN54AFO/U/V. Grahame Bessey has reported the sighting of AFO and AFV operating in Norwich during early August. They are in Sanders livery and branded for route 44 Sheringham - Cromer - Aylsham - Norwich My

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