Around and About ~ Bury St Edmunds

Saturday meant a day's outing to Bury St Edmunds for shopping (and also a few bus observations!!)

The first vehicle I saw, and was able to get a photo of, was Stephensons' Volvo Olympian/Alexander (Belfast) Royale 829 N881FKK. She was formerly 95-D-253 when with Dublin Bus.

This is the first time I have seen a Stephensons decker working Bury services; although it may be quite a regular occurrence nowadays

Continuing the decker theme, I observed three Chambers' buses whilst loitering in the vicinity of the bus station.

Two examples were former Stagecoach London Volvo B7TL/ Plaxton Presidents in the new livery in the form of  L433 W516WGH and L438 W956WGH.

The other was Volvo Olympian/ Northern Counties Palantine N529LHG in the old livery devoid of any fleetnumbers

The fifth decker I noted was Stagecoach East's Trident 18342 AE55DKF still with Citi decals. She had been displaced off the Citi 1 services by the new Enviro400s. Another Stagecoach example appearing was saloon 22320 AE51RYW; an ALX300 bodied MAN

Mulleys' vehicles also featured with former Anglianbus Scania MUI7919 (previously R84EMB) on a Mildenhall bound 355 service.

In addition to their many Solos, Mulleys also supplied a East Lancs Flyte bodied Scania L113CRL in the form of P640ENN

Thetford based Coach Services were using former Menzies OmniCity YN03UWM, Wright Eclipse bodied Volvo B7RLE CS12BUS and Optare MX09AOT on local routes

The sole representative of the Galaway fleet seen was VDL/Wright Cadet AY05KVF; a vehicle seen on my previous visit to Bury

Finally, as I was about to leave Ambassador Travel's Caetano Levante 206 FJ09DXA arrived on the 491 service from the capital.

After unloading passengers she continued on her way to her ultimate destinations of Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft