New Flixbus Service

David Slater reports that a new Flixbus service started today with the 950 from Heathrow Airport to Norwich. 

The first northbound trip (06:00 from Heathrow) was worked by Cozy Travel of Sandy's OU23 CYM which was seen at Fiveways, Barton Mills. It is a Neoplan Tourliner that had been new to Whippet Coaches in July 2023 and still carries Whippet fleet number FX44. After Whippet Coaches ended their four year Flixbus contract Cozy’s apparently took on the lease of the six former Whippet Neoplan coaches.

Departing Heathrow (Central) at 0600 this trip travels via Luton Airport Parkway (0650-0655); Cambridge (Parkside) (0810-0820); and Thetford (0920-0925) arriving Norwich (Bus Station) at 1015. he full service has six daily trips each way although not all serve Cambridge Trumpington Park and Ride (TP&R) and Norwich (University of East Anglia).

Departures from Norwich are:

0025 arriving Heathrow 0430

0200 arriving Heathrow 0610

0335 arriving Heathrow 0800

1100 arriving Heathrow 1530 (omits UEA and TP&R)

1250 arriving Heathrow 1720 (omits UEA and TP&R)

1500 arriving Heathrow 1920 (omits UEA)

 

Departures from Heathrow are:

0600 arriving Norwich 1015 (omits TP&R and UEA)

0740 arriving Norwich 1215

0940 arriving Norwich 1405 (omits UEA)

1740 arriving Norwich 2210 (omits TP&R and UEA)

1910 arriving Norwich 2330

2120 arriving Norwich 0140

The service is operated by Transport Made Simple/ Central Connect from their Diss depot with the the Neoplans currently on loan to them until new vehicles arrive.

I am grateful to David for the information and photos.

Roy