Service Alterations Registered ~ 13th August 2025

This week's Notices and Proceedings Report, published by the East of England Traffic Commissioner earlier today, contains no information regarding changes to local bus services. The full Notices and Proceedings Report can be viewed here soon

Roy

Rail Replacement

This morning I visited the Inspiration Railway 200 Exhibition Train at Lowestoft Railway Station's platform 4 which also provided an opportunity to meet up with a couple of friends I haven't seen for some time.



Whilst I was there it was announced that the 12:57 to Norwich would operate as a bus replacement service due to a problem with the Reedham Swingbridge .There was some immediate concern that passengers might join the East Anglia Transport Museum's former Lowestoft Corporation's AEC Swift YRT 898H on display at the bus stop in error!



The journey itself was provided at the last minute by Angies Tours of Lowestoft's Caetano Levante bodied Scania K410 P20 PJO. The coach was new as National Express BN64 FKO

My thanks to Tim Miller for the photos

Roy

Second Enviro400 Withdrawn

The latest from First's Caister Road depot is that a second Coastlink liveried ADL Enviro400 has been removed from the local fleet. It is 33811 YX63 LJY.



All four replacement Wright StreetDecks currently in the town are available for service.

Roy

First Update

Noted at First Norwich's Roundtree Way depot earlier today was First Ipswich Wright StreetLite 47679 SL15 RVW. It has been off the road since 19th June.

Also now stored in Norwich is recently withdrawn First Great Yarmouth ADL Enviro400 33806 YX63LJL, which is rumoured to be destined for First Essex.

Since Grahame's post yesterday, a fourth former First South West Wright bodied StreetDeck Ultroliner has arrived at Caister Road in the form of 35672 MF22 SYA. Leaving the remaining two of the batch to follow soon.

My thanks to First for the information and photo.

Roy

BIG Bus Show

More than 150 vehicles attended the BIG Bus Day event held at Stonham Barns Park in Suffolk yesterday.



While I was unable to attend, Dan High did and provided some 90 photos. This made a very difficult task for me to select what to post and what to leave out. One of the main attractions though was the appearance of the Ohmio LIFT Shuttle Autonomous vehicle KX24 BUF supplied by Suffolk County Council.



I had to restrict the photos in the remainder of this post to buses not published on the blog before or those locally based. One of the former was Eastern Coach Works bodied Bristol RELH OTA 645G in Midland Red colours.



One of the Norfolk contingent attending was Eagles Coaches ENH 634, a Volvo BM10-62 first registered in May1997 as P303 VWR by Wallace Arnold Coaches.



Another representative from the county was SALEC Travel's Setra W939 GAG which retains its former Coachpoint colour scheme.



A local operator not featuring much on the blog is Grebe Coaches of Wheatacre near Beccles which provided Mercedes-Benz O818D MIL 8912.



Many preservationists attended the event which provided an opportunity to display their vehicles. They included Suffolk-based J&M Preservations who brought along their latest acquisition Volvo B10M Plaxton Premiere 350 T325 APP still in its Ellie Rose Travel colours. Former AEC/Park Royal Routemaster 860 UXC, owned by another Suffolk group, also appeared with the former RM664 securing an award at the show.



Lowestoft independent Angies Coaches showed off its latest purchase - Yutong GT12 Y7 PTO in its recently applied Sunrise livery



Other local operators attending included First Eastern Counties, Sanders Coaches, Belle Coaches and Wrights Coaches.

I am very grateful to Dan for all the photos used with the exception being that of Y7 PTO which was taken by Will Drake. I can only apologise if your favourite vehicle is not included in our report
 
Roy

New Arrivals at Yarmouth

Yarmouth Depot is taking delivery of its first vehicles in the new corporate livery. These are a batch of ex First South West Wright Bodied StreetDeck Ultroliners.

35670 - 35675 are all expected at Caister Road with 35671/3 & 5 having arrived so far. All have been repainted out of Badgerline livery at Mardens in Essex.

 

35675 MF22SYG pictured at Caister Road prior to entering service, it worked the 7 service between Yarmouth & Norwich that day.

 

The latest arrival was collected from Norwich on Saturday, 35671 MF22SXZ is pictured over the pits at Caister Road shortly after arriving.

Full details as follows,

35670 MF22SXY  (Has been on loan with First Essex)

35671 MF22SXZ

35672 MF22SYA

35673 MF22SYC

35674 MF22SYE (Has been on loan with First Essex)

35675 MF22SYG 

We have been informed these will replace some of the Coastlink liveried Enviro 400 fleet which will transfer to Essex. A batch of Volvo B9TL Geminis are also rumoured to be heading to Yarmouth to replace older Volvo's here.

Many Thanks to First for the Information and the photo of 35671.

Grahame. 

Sanders in Cornwall

Dave King reports the sighting of three Sanders Coaches in Mid Cornwall today. He suggests from the window stickers that they are probably in the area in connection with the Boardmasters Surf Festival which is taking place near Newquay this weekend.



He observed Volvo B13RT/ Jonckheeres 919 DLZ 822 and 920 DLZ 844 along with Van Hool T915 / Alicron 800 WH11 CHR



Apparently the Sanders' contingent in Cornwall is even larger with an additional four coaches later reported present on our Facebook site. They are Volvo B9Rs PVF 377, 259 VYC, W30 SCL and Volvo B11R SC23 NJS

Later in Newquay, whilst photographing the shuttle buses, he saw ex First Norwich Volvo B9TL 36171 BD11 CFU on service 87 from Truro. Following the loss of college and schools work at First Kernow it is reported that all of the ex Norwich Volvo B9TL's are soon to move elsewhere.

Many thanks to Dave for the information and photos and to James Morgan for details of the other coaches

Roy