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Unusual Visitor

Earlier today at Great Yarmouth's Beach Coach Station, there was an unusual sighting: an ADL Enviro400 MMC from Leytonstone's Goldline fleet. The bus, registered YY24 GZL, was added to the London-based operator's fleet only last month.



Our thanks to Taylor Jack for providing the information and photograph.

Roy

Wherry 100 Service Returns

Martin Halliday of the Wherry Lines Community Rail Partnership has communicated that the group is sponsoring this year's seasonal Our Bus 100 service.

From 22nd July to 31st August, the service will operate on a timetable similar to the previous year, starting from Vauxhall Park, then to the Rail Station, Seafront, Britannia Pier, and returning via St Nicholas Road to Vauxhall Park.

The partnership emphasises its commitment to improving connectivity, noting the considerable distance from Great Yarmouth station to the seafront and town centre. It recognizes that families with luggage and day-trippers may find a taxi too expensive or the walk too lengthy. Despite last August's inclement weather, the service transported nearly 10,000 passengers.

My thanks to Martin for the information and to Steve Hewett of the East Norfolk Transport Users Association for successfully campaigning for the service.

Roy

Friday Miscellany

Today's post offers a variety of locations where photos were taken - starting in Great Yarmouth, moving on to Norwich and ending up in Cromer.



The initial location is Great Yarmouth's Beach Coach Station where three vehicles were parked up earlier today, having previously observed another three returning home on the A47. A Crusader Holidays' (Motts Coaches) branded Mercedes-Benz Tourismo UK19 CRU was the first observed.



Nearby was Maynes Coaches' Tourismo T80 GSM which had travelled all the way from Buckie in Scotland



The last was Wigan-based Grayway Holidays' Van Hool TX15 Alicron YT16 EHE on hire to Alfa Holidays.



We now move on to to Norwich where our regular reporter Dan High was photographing loaned Ipswich Reds StreetDecks working trips between Costessey Park & Ride and the University of East Anglia for its graduations. Dan's photo shows First Eastern Counties 35910 BN72 TVA



Meanwhile, I had travelled up to Cromer where I captured Sanders Coaches' MCV eVoRa bodied Volvo B8RLE 525 BV22 HBO heading west on Runton Road on a Coasthopper service.

My thanks to Dan for his photo

Roy

Service Alterations Registered ~ 17th July 2024

There are some alterations to local services provided by BorderBus and Sanders Coaches in today's East of England Traffic Commissioner's Notices and Proceedings Report.

BorderBus is amending the timetables of its LAT2 route between Halesworth Rail Station and the Latitude Festival in Henham and its LAT4 Kessingland to Latitude service from 26th July 2024.

Sanders Coaches is altering the timetables of the following services from the 1st September 2024:-
* 46 Bus Shelter, Market Place, Holt to Fakenham.
* 201 Wicken Green - Blenheim Park School to Wells-next-the-Sea Primary School.
* 202 Salthouse Post Office to Wells High School.

The full Notices and Proceedings Report will be available to be view here soon.

Roy

Sanders Solar Moves On

Stowmarket-based Dan's Coach Travel has announced on Facebook that it has acquired a vehicle from Sanders Coaches.



The vehicle concerned is Wright Solar bodied Scania L94UB YN05 GXX, numbered 316 in the fleet. It has been with Sanders since June 2013 and was new to Reading Buses eight years earlier,

Roy

EATM British Bus Fleets Event

My apologies for the delay in posting the report on the East Anglia Transport Museum's British Bus Fleets Event. Half way through editing photos, my PC stubbornly refused to proceed any further until it updated its operating system, which took blooming ages! Other commitments meant I couldn't do any work on the post until this evening. So here goes.



Fortunately the rain held off and I travelled to the park and ride site late morning to be ferried to the museum by former First Glasgow (now First Eastern Counties) 37532 MXZ 3342 seen dropping off passengers opposite the entrance.



Regular return trips from the museum were carried out by the museum's resident vehicles with former Great Yarmouth AEC Swift WEX 685M and ex Eastern National Bristol KSW5G open top WNO 479 joining in. Lowestoft Corporation AEC Regent V 918 NRT was placed on the naughty step on the Sunday with fuel issues so didn't take part.



A number of vehicles were lined up on Chapel Road including BorderBus Scania OmniCity 212 BB61 BUS, First Great Yarmouth Pride Volvo B9 36202 BN12 WOC and Belle Coaches' Mercedes-Benz Tourismo BF62 JZR.



Opposite the main Trolleybus depot were parked three vehicle with the first being Ipswich Transport Museum's preserved AEC Regent V ADX 63B, number 63 in the Ipswich Corporation Transport fleet.



Next to it was former Eastern National Bristol FLF6G Lodekka/Eastern Coach Works NTW 924C. Now preserved at the Canvey Island Transport Museum.



The third of the trio, I thought, was the star of the show. It was Lodge's Coaches' Bedford VAL70/ Duple Viceroy TFV 475J.



The Fylde Transport Trust’s Blackpool Brush Railcoach Terror Tram 634 was doing a fine trade and is seen here passing the Trolleybus depot



After trips on many vehicles, including the extended East Suffolk Light Railway, it was getting fairly dark and overcast so I decided to leave as the weather looked threatening and I was without a coat! Whilst I was waiting for the return bus to the Park & Ride site, Great Yarmouth Corporation's AEC Reliance AEX 85B departed the museum on a trip to Beccles.

Roy