Local Sightings

With it being a pleasant mild April day with the sun shining, I thought it would be good to exercise with a walk along Great Yarmouth's Seafront.



As we neared the Britannia Pier, I noticed Setra 416GT-HD EU14 GXR owned by Barking, Ipswich-based C & J Coaches was parked up. It was still in the previous owner's colours of Lodges Coaches and the reason for its presence was that Great Yarmouth Football Club were playing Ipswich Wanderers at the nearby Wellesley football ground.



I looked in at the Coach Station on Nelson Road North and found two coaches present. The first seen was KM Travel's VDL Bova 893 KM.



The other vehicle was Millennium Travel's Mercedes-Benz Tourismo G19 MTL on charter to Alfa Holidays.

Roy

Early Start For Lochs & Glens

Lochs and Glens Holidays offer a number of tours to Scotland from the Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft area throughout the year. They regularly require an early start on a feeder coach to join up with the main tour.

Just to give you an idea of the early timings for the feeder coach, regular contributor Tim Miller provided a lift for his friend to join the service at Lowestoft at 04:30 this morning! (That's really early!!) The coach involved was Volvo B11RT Jonckheere JSV N23 MKT from Mil-Ken Travel of Littleport, Ely.

My thanks to Tim for the photo.

Roy

Norwich Sightings

A couple of photos from Dan High's sightings on Norwich's Castle Meadow earlier today. The first shows Completely Coach Travel's Irizar i6s M28 CCT passing First Eastern Counties Wright StreetDeck New Power 71023 XIG 1723.



The second features First Great Yarmouth's Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini 36215 BJ12 VWX in its Coastal Reds livery on a working from the seaside to the city on the 7 route.



Again my thanks to Dan for the photos.

Roy

Another Dolphin Acquistion

Dolphin Travel has added another vehicle to its fleet in the form of AFSC Limited's (operating as Marett's Chariots) BMC 220 YK55 AUA.

After being purchased from Keighley & District in West Yorkshire in January 2019, the BMC was subsequently re-registered to M31 AAM and received fleet number 509.

My thanks to Dan High for the photo.

Roy

33423 ~ (Not So) Final Journey

First Eastern Counties ADL Enviro400 33423 SN60 CAA has departed Great Yarmouth's Caister Road depot for the final time.



Withdrawn in December last year, due to chassis deterioration, it subsequently lost its engine and gearbox and is pictured leaving this morning on tow for an initial stay at Lowestoft's Gasworks Road depot prior to its last journey to the scrapyard.

Also in Great Yarmouth depot is former First South West partial open topper 37796 LX59 CXO still in its Lands End Coaster livery. It arrived in August last year.



My thanks to Steve N for the photos

Roy

First Electroliner Substitution

John Russell informs me that this morning’s 11:12 Pink Line departure from Wroxham and Hoveton to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital was unusually worked by ex Doncaster and Kernow Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 36225 BD12 TAV.

I am grateful to John for the information and photo.

Roy

Service Alterations Registered ~ 15th April 2026

Today's East of England Traffic Commissioner’s Notices and Proceedings Report includes some changes to Konectbus services which may be of local interest.

Two new services have been introduced from 13th April 2026. The first is a Fridays only one return journey from Roys Department Store at Hoveton and Aylsham Market Place. The other is a schools service 855 Salthouse Road, Sprowston to: Broadland High School at Hoveton

There are two amendments to routes and timetables of existing services commencing 12th April 2026. They are the 10 between The Street, Catfield and St Stephens Street in Norwich plus the 2 between Bridge Road in Potter Heigham and Stalham.

From 13th April 2026 the timetable of the 717 St Stephen Street, Norwich to Kingsway, Hemsby is being amended

The full report can be seen here soon on the Government’s website.

Roy