Electric One's

Sunday services on the Lowestoft to Martham 1/1A services have always thrown up the odd allocation over the years but these days Yarmouth's new fleet of Electroliners appear to be becoming the norm for the moment.

 

36694 BF26ZVG is pictured at the top of West Road heading for Lowestoft, scene of the recent accident involving 36286 which is now withdrawn after putting itself into the side of the property in the picture.

 Coming the other way is 36692 BF26ZVD about to head towards Hemsby bound for Martham.

Grahame 

Another Yarmouth Arrival

 Driving past Caister Road Depot this morning where another arrival from Norwich has appeared.

 

36175 BD11CFZ was on the forecourt, sadly no photo as most of the Sunday shift drivers were busy chatting in front of it! She is pictured above on Prince of Wales Road in Norwich back in 2017.

Grahame. 

Sheffield Reds

Former Great Yarmouth based 36283 LX59DAU recently became a member of the SMT Bus and Coach Ltd fleet based in Sheffield.

 

Seen here still in its Coastal Reds livery, now numbered 283 with SMT it joins a few other former First vehicles within their growing fleet. It came to Sheffield via Leeds where it was on loan at First Leeds before being sold on.

Thank you to Chris Gaskin for the use of his photo.

Grahame. 

Withdrawn Buses

The rear yard of FirstBus Eastern Counties Caister Road depot is beginning to look like a bus graveyard. Yesterday I reported the demise of Volvo B9TL 37569 AU58 ECN and it is seen there with similar 36286 LX59 DBV which has finally been withdrawn following its argument with a house in Ormesby St Margaret.

Another Volvo to meet its end is 36193 BN12 JYT with its next journey due to be to the scrapyard.

My thanks to Steve N for the information.

Roy

Dan's Great Yarmouth/Lowestoft Trip

Dan High carried out a quick tour of Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft earlier today with two FirstBus double-deckers featuring in this post.

Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini 36225 BD12 TAV is observed on Beaconsfield Road in Great Yarmouth on the 8 to the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston.

The second photo shows similar 36187 BN12 JYK on a Kessingland to Lowestoft 99 service.

My thanks to Dan for the photos

Roy

FirstBus Great Yarmouth Changes

This morning FirstBus Volvo B9TL/ Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 36200 B12 WOA was collected from Norwich and transferred to Great Yarmouth.

On the minus side another Volvo has been withdrawn with Coastal Clipper liveried 37569 AU58 ECN due to be scrapped.

My thanks to Steve N for the information.

Roy

Norwich Football Specials

As a birthday present, last night I was treated to tickets to watch the Norwich City v Southampton football match. An additional bonus was the taking of photos of buses and coaches taking supporters home from the event - twelve vehicles in total from five operators.

At the front of the queue to leave was Belle Coaches' Mercedes-Benz Tourismo LD11 HOL. It was the first of two from the operator with Scania K410EB4 BC17 BEL being the other one.

Second and third in line were Peelings' P55 FAH and P33 FAH. The former is a Mercedes-Benz Tourismo, previuosly a Shearings coach registered BF16 XPB which arrived in March this year. The latter is a Plaxton Panther 3 bodied Volvo B11R.

Downham Market-based D & H Harrod was employing Volvo B11R / Jonckheere N22 DHH, a former Lochs & Glens coach registered BU16 PBY.

SALEC Travel provided Van Hool bodied Volvo B12B YJ55 EZE for its city supporters.

Sanders Coaches provided the remaining six vehicles which included Scania N94UDs 113 YN53 CFF and 114 YN54 AFV plus Volvo B8Ls 128 PC 23 SAN and 129 EC2323 SHA. The saloons were Volvo B13RT 920 DLZ 822 (pictured) and 924 OC21 SAN.

As for the football result Norwich lost 1-0

Roy