Top Ten

With a couple of early family taxi runs this morning, the last one found me in Great Yarmouth so I decided to see what was lurking about the coach station and the seafront area.

My trawl netted me ten coaches including three each from Alfa Holidays and Caledonia Travel with the former providing a couple at the coach station. They were Mercedes-Benz Tourismos 120 BV20 HND and 136 BV22 WTT.

The only one from the Caledonian fleet there was another Mercedes-Benz Tourismo UMO 58, which was formerly NH69 RHH when with National Holidays.

Also present was a Leons Holidays VDL Futura from Stafford with its special plate LE23 EON.

Hiding behind those four was Go South Coasts' Mercedes-Benz Tourismo 91 MB19 ENZ parked in a very difficult position to get a reasonable photo.

The other two coaches there were both Yutong GT12s conveniently parked together - Yorkshire Rose YK74 PCY and KM Travel's 4465 KM (reported here yesterday in Norwich)

Continuing my journey along the seafront, Alfa Travel's Mercedes-Benz Tourismo 139 BF23 CFW was parked outside the New Beach Hotel with Caledonian Travel's Mercedes-Benz Tourismo BV22 WUW and Volvo 9700 LSK 814 about to leave their position opposite the Wellington Pier.

Roy

Lowestoft Yesterday

Dan High had a change of scenery yesterday and decided to cross the border into Suffolk to see what was lurking at Lowestoft Bus Station.

His first photo is of Great Yarmouth's Wright Eclipse Gemini 36215 BJ12 VWX leaving the bus station returning north on an X1 or X11 service.

ADL Enviro200 44532 SN62 DBO departs on the 106 circular service to Burnt Hill with its destination screen looking a little the worse for wear.

Also observed was Wright StreetLite 47646 SN15 AFF on another Lowestoft service, the 109 to Hollow Grove.

Thanks again to Dan for the photos.

Roy

Norwich Visitor

John Russell provides a photo of a visiting coach to Norwich City centre earlier today. It is a Yutong GT12 registered 4465 KM and operated by KM Travel of Barnsley.

Many thanks to John for the information and photo.

Roy

Essex Trainer

Regular contributor Mark Doggett has sent a couple of photos of a former First Eastern Counties driver trainer now in use with First Essex. It is pictured in Basildon.



It is Volvo B7RLE/Wright Eclipse Urban 66883 MX55 HHP in its mainly yellow Blockbuster livery

Many thanks to Mark for the photos.

Roy

Service Alterations Registered ~ 1st April 2026

The latest East of England Traffic Commissioner's Notices and Proceedings Report contains no entries regarding any changes to our local bus services. 

However, Acle-based Our Bus is to cancel the operation of its 132 Heartsease to Keswick service in Norwich from 13th April 2026.

The full Report can be viewed here soon.

Roy

Tuesday in Norwich

Just three selected photos of the many supplied by Dan High of his sightings in Norwich yesterday.

Sanders Coaches' X55 branded MCV eVoRa Volvo B8RLE 529 BV72 KKD was employed on its usual designated route.

Also observed was First Eastern Counties Volvo B9 36223 BD12 SZZ awaiting its next duty in Castle Meadow. This is one of the former Doncaster liveried First Kernow ones which has recently received a repaint into the First Ultraviolet scheme. Confirmation of this can be found on the destination screen with reference to 'firstbus.co.uk/cornwall'

The third depicts Central Connect's Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Altas / EVM Cityline 228 RX25 TCJ on the 35 service to Hellesdon.

My thanks to Dan for the photos.

Roy

Konectbus Changes

Konectbus has published changes to some of its services commencing on 12th April 2026 which are ‘designed to improve reliability, enhance connectivity, and better reflect changing travel needs’.

Three routes are of specific interest to users in East Norfolk with the first being a new route 2 between Eaton and Potter Heigham replacing part of the current 5B service. Picture shows the 5B being worked from Norwich by Konectbus (ex Go Ahead’s Bluestar) Mercedes-Benz Citaro HF55 JZD in December 2018.

There is also a new hourly service 10 between Norwich and Stalham replacing parts of current routes 5B,11B and 717. The current 5B Eaton to Stalham is being withdrawn and replaced by routes 2 and 10.

The Winterton and Hemsby to Norwich 717 service is being severely reduced to just two Saturday return journeys. The start of the 717 service was on 29th June 2024 and the photo supplied by Chris Speed records the inaugural run to Hemsby by ADL Enviro400 607 SN61 CZX.

My thanks to Mark for the heads up. Details of all the Konectbus changes, including the new timetables, can be found here.

Roy