Another Shearings Setra

Another Shearings Setra appeared at Great Yarmouth's Beach Coach Station this afternoon. Registered as BF10VCA and with fleet number 211, she was one of six vehicles there.

Saturday Afternoon at the Beach

A York Pullman coach and a double decker from New City Coaches were among the nine vehicles seen at Great Yarmouth's Beach Coach station this afternoon.

The York Pullman was a Van Hool with the registration of B18KJF. The vehicle is on hire to National Holidays for its Great Yarmouth and Norfolk Broads tour. The York Pullman name was  resurrected by K&J Travel of Rufforth in April 2007 after the original trading name was sold to Hull City Transport after de-regulation.

The New City Coaches double decker was a Volvo B12B with Jonchere bodywork. The Luton-based vehicle was NUI8635 and is capable of seating 71 passengers on its two decks. It has previously been registered 243ELU and N157LMJ. (Source: HB Publications)

Finally, Whippet utilised Volvo J669LGA on its Coastal Service; which made a slight change from the regular J689LGA!!

Beach Coach Station Yesterday Afternoon

A viewing of Beach Coach Station yesterday revealed 14 vehicles present, including some interesting visitors.

Firstly, a new Shearings 11 registered Setra was there in the shape of 321 BK11CPX

Also on site was a Czech Republic vehicle operated by Jiri Rozsival of Brno - unfortunately it was parked on the back rank so I was unable to get a reasonable photograph. However, a picture of the Bova Futura, which has a registration of 1B5 3147, was located on the operator's website and is reproduced here.

One vehicle I did get a photo of was a smart looking Rambler Volvo B10M with Van Hool bodywork. She was PDY272 which has fleetnumber 35. New to the East Sussex operator in May 1999 as T222GDY, she looked quite attractive in her mainly green colour scheme. The operator's website also has details of current and previous vehicles owned and has been designed with the coach enthusiast in mind.

Whippet's Volvo B10M J689LGA was there once more but was parked in a different spot to normal, which proves that it can and does move!!

Swift Vehicles for Disposal

Visiting the Swift Taxis website earlier today, I found three vehicles available for disposal: 
1994 Dennis Dart L907JRN    1997 Dennis Dart S511XCR    1995 Scania Izair M26XSC

The 1997 green liveried Dart is pictured above working an afternoon schools service in January 2010 and is currently parked at the rear of Swift's Southtown Road yard, in company with 1992 Volvo B10 K224SSD. Both do not appear to have turned a wheel in weeks.

Photos of the other vehicles mentioned above can be seen in the Swift set on my Flickr site

Developments at Reynolds Coaches

The fourth posting today and its about Norfolk's oldest coach operator Reynolds of Caister. Local correspondent Grahame reports on the latest vehicle repaint at their Ormesby Road garage.

Here Dennis Javelin CHZ4796 looks resplendent in its new coat of paint and its thanks to Grahame for providing the photo too.

Reynolds operates 21 coaches from its Caister site and has recently launched a new web site which includes a photo gallery of some of its coaches.

X1 Coach Workings

This afternoon two coaches were noted working on the First Eastern Counties X1 route

Firstly, Volvo B7 Profile 20352 WA05UNE operated the 13.55 Lowestoft to Peterborough and is pictured at Market Gates this afternoon.where it arrived some five minutes late

Later in the afternoon Great Yarmouth's Volvo B10M 20126 P766XHS was noted leaving the Market Gates area (outside British Home Stores) on time with the 12.05 Peterborough to Lowestoft

Another Anglian StreetLite

The weekday 13.20 Beccles to Great Yarmouth and the 14.10 return to the Suffolk town can often be relied upon to provide an Anglian StreetLite. Today was no exception with 324 MX60BWJ doing the honours.

Here the driver gives a friendly wave to the camera as he negotiates the turn from The Conge to the Market Place in Great Yarmouth on the inward working.