Local Olympian Moves Away

A First Great Yarmouth based Olympian has moved to Staffordshire!

Northern Counties Palatine bodied Leyland Olympian 34158 (P658UFB) has transferred to First Potteries Newcastle Under Lyme Depot.

She was collected from the Caister Road site on Friday morning.

The photo shows her at Lowestoft bus station on X2 duties in January 2009

My thanks to Grahame Bessey and Ryan for the information and to ex-pat Mick Capon for pointing out the 'deliberate mistake'!!

AnglianBus Fleet Update

Further to the recent posts on the blog regarding AnglianBus arrivals, the third former Brighton & Hove Trident entered the Car & Commercials premises during yesterday afternoon

Regular contributor Tim Miller snapped T812RFG in the Beccles company's yard; which now leaves just T811RFG out of the foursome to arrive for attention.

Further information has also come to hand (via Steve Wright on the east-anglia-buses yahoo group) as to the identities of  the five vehicles at Ellough due to operate the schools contracts commencing next week

The five are former City Of Oxford Irizar Century bodied Scania K114's OW03LFK, OW03LFN, OW03LFP, OW03LFR and OW03LFS.

A further three were noted at Konnectbus premises in Dereham last weekend waiting delivery; they were also Scania K114s - Irizar bodied OW03 LFX and EF53 OXF plus Jonckhere bodied OC02 OXF.

My thanks again goes to Tim Miller for the report and photo of the Trident arrival

Second B&H Trident Arrives For AnglianBus

Tim Miller reports that the second of the four former Brighton & Hove Trident has arrived at Car & Commercials yard.

T815RFG is seen at the Beccles site having arrived there around 2.30 yesterday afternoon.

Finally, Tim reports that an hour earlier Scania L113CRL/ Wright Axcess Ultraflow 416 R81EMB was outside ready for collection following repair.

Less than two hours later I noted her entering Market Gates bus station ready to resume duties sporting a shiny new front end!

Many thanks to Tim for his reports

Alfa Four

Four coaches from the Alfa Travel fleet were present at the town's Beach Coach Station shortly before 2pm this afternoon.

Two were parked side by side; they were Volvo B12B 44 PN07LLJ and Dennis R410 35 PN05AMV.

Both coaches have  Plaxton Paragon bodywork.

The others were Dennis R410 28 PN04NMV and Volvo B12B 41 PN07LLE.

Two Shearings coaches were also on site; blue Setra 315 BK11CPE and Volvo B12M Grand Tourer liveried 603 MX04AEC.

Ipswich Buses Scania N94UD/East Lancs OmniDekka 61 PJ54YZU was also at the coach station. It's only recently that Ipswich Buses have started parking their buses there - previously they laid over at First's Caister Road site.

AnglianBus School Contracts

Beccles based AnglianBus has secured a significant number of Suffolk school contracts starting this September following an aggressive tendering process.

A number of Irizar bodied Scanias have been acquired to undertake the work with at least five being noted at Anglian's Ellough site on Sunday by regular correspondent Tim Miller.

Unfortunately the picture has been taken from a distance but, nevertheless, the new vehicles can be discerned on the left hand side of the photo.

Eleven of the routes already identified for the newcomers are:-

• BH216 Halesworth, Bramfield Road - Bungay Sixth Form (am only)
• BH272 Blythburgh - Bungay High
• BH274 Halesworth, Queen Street - Bungay High
• BH275 Halesworth, Bramfield Road - Bungay High
• BH276 Bungay Sisth Form to Halesworth (pm only)
• BR001 Kessingland - Sir John Leman School, Beccles
• LS002 Yoxford - Alde Valley School, Leiston
• LS005 Bruisyard - Alde Valley School, Leiston
• LS013 Saxmundham -Alde Valley School, Leiston
• LS025 Aldeburgh, Leiston Road - Alde Valley School, Leiston
• LS026 Aldeburgh, Fort Green - Alde Valley School, Leiston

More vehicles are thought to be on their way as it has been suggested that more than five vehicles will be needed to service these contracts!!

My thanks Tim Miller for the reports and the photo and also to members of the east-anglia-buses yahoo group for their assistance in attempting to identify the vehicles at Ellough

Enviro 200s into the Paint-Shop (Updated)

A Plaxton sandwich - Enviros VT09JPT & DK57SXG either side of First Dart
43469 R469CAH in the rear yard at Caister Road

Four of First's recently acquired Enviro 200s have now left Great Yarmouth's Caister Road depot for an outside paint-shop (believed to be Full Circle)

They are both of the former Townlynx vehicles (DK57SXF/G), the ex SM Coach (EU08FHB) and one of the blue ex JP Transport trio (thought to be RT09JPT)

Their reappearance in First colours is awaited with interest

Many thanks to Ryan for the continuous updated information and, of course, the photos

AnglianBus Tridents Begin to Arrive

As exclusively revealed on the eastnorfolkbus blog, AnglianBus is to receive four Tridents from elsewhere within the Go-Ahead Group

It transpires that all will be sourced from Brighton and Hove and the first was noted by regular correspondent Tim Miller at Car & Commercials of Beccles on Wednesday.

Brighton's T813RFG, which has London General legal lettering, is pictured in their very busy yard!

Stephen Wright on east-anglia-buses yahoo group identifies the remaining three as T811/12/15 RFG with the last two also having London General legals - speculating that they may have been used in connection with the London Olympics

My appreciation goes to Tim Miller for the report and pictures. Thanks also to Neil Chilvers for the clarification of the location.