Norwich Activity 30th June 2012

Konectbus

Konectbus Trident SN10CFG was on the 8 Service alongside SN61CZW.

Tempo MX58ABV was on the 6A to Attleborough.

Tempo YJ57EGY was on the X6.

Trident SN10CEX was on the 3 Service operating between Norwich, NNUH, Watton & Shipdam.

First Eastern Counties

Ex First Northampton, MV02VCC was on the 29 Service.

Another Ex First Northamton eclipse, MV02VBC was on the 13.

Eclipse Gemini2 was on the 27 Service.















BD11CFK & BD11CFV Geminis were on the 25/35 services. The most frequent in Norwich, which serves the City Centre, East Anglia University & Riverside.

Dart R473CAH was on the 15 Service. A Dart is rare sight in Norwich nower days!

Gemni 1 AU58EDF was seen on the X1 picking up at Norwich then on to Lowestoft L1.

Plaxton Presidents LT52WUV & LR02LYD were on the 21/22.

Eclipse AU05DMO was on the 15 to Norwich Bus Station.












Anglianbus

Scania Demonstrator YT11LSE was on the 588 from Halesworth & Bungay.

T200CBC was on the 123 operating between Wroxham, Norwich & Dussindale.

AU11EPE was resting beween duties on the 003.





Norfolk Green

YJ56ATU & YJ59NNZ were on the X29 operating bewteen Norwich & Fakenham.











Other

Chenery Jonckheere Mistral N999RWC was on the 490 heading for London.











National Express FJ11MKA was also heading London bound on the 490.

National Express C114 FJ60HXX branded for the Common Wealth Games was on the 727.

Finaly Ex Shearings Volvo VanHool Alizee Maretts Chariotts was seen in Norwich.














Many Thanks to Kieran Smith for the majority of the above pictures used in this post. 

More Ex First Northampton Eclipses for Norwich

More Volvo B7L Wright Eclipses from First Northampton have noted in service around Norwich, They are: MV02VCA, MV02VCC, MV02VDA, MV02VCN, MV02VCO, MV02VBZ, MV02VCW & MV02VCZ. They have mostly been on services, 11, 12, 16, 17/A & 29.

Many Thanks to Kieran for the information.

Konectbus & Showground sightings

With The Norfolk Show being on the 27th & 28th June there were more bus services especially for the event, Kieran Smith was on hand to photograph them.

First Eastern Counties were BD11CGF & BD11CGE were using two B9TL Gemini 2's for the special 100 Service linking Norwich Rail Station with the showground.

Anglian Beaver V380HGG was operating a shuttle between City College & the Showground.

Another two Ex First Northampton B7L Eclipse's were noted MV02VBY & an identifiable one. (Will update as soon as possible.)

Konectbus BL57OXN was seen on Costessey Park & Ride duties. Also noted was BD57WDA & YJ05PXD operating between the Costessey Park & Ride site & the NNUH on Service 10.

Konectbus MX08UZU was on the 9 Service.












Kieran Smith also reported his sightings at the Konectbus Headquarters in Dereham.
Three Optare Excels have been withdrawn, T789XVO, R835FNG & R837FNG.
R837FNG has been Cannibalized .








Two Citaro Bendys were present, BD57WCY & BX54UEA. BD57WCY had painted into Konect colors after several weeks operating in London General red. Both bendys are awaiting Vinyls.

Konectbus Tempo MX06YXU was noted on Bus 4, MX05ELH was noted on Bus 5, & First President LR02LXO was on the 16.




Many Thanks to Kieran Smith for the pictures & report.

Another First President Breakdown

32201, the president in question

Driving down the A47 this afternoon at approximately 16:30 I noticed that a FirstEC Plaxton President had broken, which was causing tailbacks as far as the Blofield Round about (which is quite a long way considering it was near the Trowse turn off!) The vehicle in question is 32201 LT52WTF. This is the latest in a series of First Plaxton Presdent breakdowns, Is First at fault? Or is just the unreliabilty of the Presidents? When you take in to consideration two caught fire at Postwick not to long a go, one was a Norse President the other was a First President.




LT52WTF is based at the Great Yarmouth Caister Road depot.

As you can see from the pictures below the queses were considerably long!

Unidentified First X1 Gemini heading for Kings Lynn held up in the queues. 

Very long tailback between Postwick & Trowse

Queues as far as the eye can stretch!

So if you were one of the those held up in that, You know who to thank.................First!

Norwich scenes

Just a couple of pictures taken around Norwich today, including Swift Taxis, First Eastern Counties, Norse & Go-Whippet.

Swift Taxis 137 FJ53VDL seen today! I think it had just complete Sprowston school runs.

Konectbus 206 W216PRB was heading for the N&NU Hospital then back to Watton.

Norse PN03ULL was on the branded 606 Postwick - City Centre - Sprowston interlinked Park & Ride service.

                                      

Finally, Go-Whippet Jonckheere Mistral on service code 'A' Huntington Via Newmarket.Still prouldly showing its England flags!! (despite the disaster between against Italy last night :)

Go-Ahead says bus division is succesfull

Go-Aheads Anglian Bus on 123 Service.

Go-Ahead announded that their bus network continues to perform well, with all their companies seeing revenue growth in the year to date.

Go-Ahead has a established a huge presence in East Anglia acquiring a number of Norfolk & Suffolk bus operators including Chambers, Anglian Bus & Konectbus increasing their average passanger journey percentage by 3% partly due to the popularity of Smartcards which passengers are taking advantage of.



Go-Ahead expect full year growth in deregulated passenger revenue of around 7% and journey growth of around 4.5

*Press release from Go-Ahead 21 June 2012

Latest Eclipse Arrival for FirstEC

Photo Courtesy of Kerian Smith!

First Eastern Counties in Norwich have taken delivery of another Ex First Northamton Volvo Wright Eclipse. MV02VCW is the third in the batch so far, the other two being MV02VCZ & MV02VBZ. First Northampton have so far taken delivery of two Ex Norwich S - Reg Scanias in exchange, they are S567TPW & S572TPW. Its rumored that 25 Eclsipses should be coming all together from Northampton!
MV02VCW was on the 29 Taverham service Today. (23rd June).

Ambassador Travel Fleet Update - June 2012

Another One of Ambassadors Plaxton Paragons have been re-registered, This time FN52HRM is now carrying KIG1857. Earlier this year, its sister FN52HRG was re-registered as KIG1856.

KIG1857 was spotted at the Norwich Bus Station on National Express duties.

Many Thanks to Joe Wilson for the picture.

Anglianbus HQ Visit continued...

More from the EATM event from Anglians Headquarters in Beccles.

                                             MX53FDP was the closet in a long line up.

                                                  Versa, AU11EPF was on show at the depot.

Scania Omnilinks YT11LVE, YT11LVF and YN07EZB were seen.

Solos YT51EBF & AU54ENY were seen.
AU54ENY is still in Anglians older stripes livery.

 

Ex London Tridents X251NNO, X309NNO, X384NNO & V161MEV were presnt.

X384NNO was next to P104OLX in the Line up.

Hedingham loan V250BNV (as previisly posted) in maintenance.



The Front panel of this Dart had been removed.

One of Anglians oldest vehicles HIL5679 was seen.














Dennis Javlein 784EYB which is usually used on
School services was in a long line up of Anglians larger vehicles.










Another Hedignham loan P104OLX was next to Optare Excel X228WRA.
400 X228WRA appears to have been transferred over from Rackheath! Probably to make way for the new buses scheduled to be delivered soon!









Another line up was of three Anglians smaller vehicles, Streetlite MX60GXA & Solos, AU54EOA & AU08GLY

Two beavers V380HGG & AO02LVC. Currently acting as spares.

Last but not least Konectbus loan V203ENU was present at the Anglian depot. The Excel had previously been withdrawn from Konect services for a couple of months prior to going on loan to Anglian Bus. Anglian Bus will be the very last company it will be in service with as when The new Eco buses for Anglian arrive it will be scraped.





Many Thanks to Stefan Carter for the pictures.

Anglianbus HQ Visit

Following the EATM event, The Anglianbus Headquarters at Beccles Ellough Industrial Estate Depot was open for viewing.

The first picture shows Scania OmniCity Double - Decker's AO57HCC + AO57HCD .

 Three of the newly acquired Ex Metrobuses were present, they were YN05HFF, YN05HFH & YN05HFJ.

The other two YN05HFG & YN05HFE could to still be awaiting delivery from Go -Ahead London or could already be based at the Rackheath depot.

Another Scania OmniCity in the shape of YN03UVT was at the depot.











Optare Excel X228WRA was at the depot, which previously was based at Rackheath.







 All four current Loanees were at the depot, V250BNV, P104OLX, V203ENU & YT11LSE.

 P104OLX & V250BNV are both on loan from fellow Go-Ahead company Hedingham Omnibuses.
V250BNV was in maintenance.








Scania OmniCity Decker, YT11LSE has been on loan to many Go-Ahead company's, Anglianbus being the latest employer.

V203ENU had no logos just Konectbus colours.

Volvo Olympian Alexander HIL7618 was also at the depot.











My Thanks to Kieran Smith for the Regular supply of photographs