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29/10/2010

Wednesday 27th October 2010 ~ X2 Invader

Michael Bryant tells me that a King's Lynn based 3757X series Gemini had not appeared on the X2 since March as far as he knows, so today provided a surprise. 37570 did the first part of K1 but was changed at Lowestoft for 37157 on the 11.55 back to Peterborough. 570 was then seen firstly by Michael on the 14.08 X2 to Norwich and then by Andy at its destination. Syd then says "A driver error caused 37570 to be used on Y13 1848 X1 Ex Lowestoft after work on the X2. The previous driver had left it in the bus station at Lowestoft and the X1 driver took it by mistake. He should have taken 37576 which then spent the rest of the evening unloved in Lowestoft Bus Stn until James saw it and got it collected by Lowestoft Engineers at 2315! ( still with X1 Peterborough on the screen )". Y13 had been worked by 37156 earlier and it would seem that 37576 off K14 which finishes at Lowestoft, was chosen originally to work back to Lynn instead.

Lowestoft's 37566 was removed from L12 early this afternoon and 37574 off a safety service took its turn, the 14.02 Lynn to Lowestoft. This may have been because at 14.00 37566 was noted arriving at Wisbech 39 minutes late on L12 ! The Thorney Toll temporary lights must be back I assume ? 37577 on K15 lost 25 minutes between arriving at King's Lynn at 12.37 and its scheduled departure back to Lowestoft from here at 15.32. Y7 was used as a servicing swap turn today with 37567 off at Lowestoft for 37569.

20126 was a bit poorly this morning with an air leak. Marc says "Caught 20126 on K4 from P'boro at 0844 to Thorney this morning. On approach to Thorney there was an audible alarm sounding from the cab (think it was for the battery). My journey back from Thorney at 0910 was on 37564 (Y6). The fault with 126 was not too serious as it completed the day on K4 and 20121 was also momentarily in the wars with a faulty demister, but it too worked K3 all day. This of course meant that two consecutive duties, K3 and K4 ended up with coaches today.
Gemini 37575 continues to amass the largest mileage total for any of the B9s, tonight being reported as having accomplished 241,673 miles on arrival at Lynn on L10 at 19.40. For some reason this service didn't go to Peterborough at 19.50 and it looks like it was cancelled.
James has investigated the matter of diagram numbers for me and Syd says "We have looked into your KL71xx numbers, they are not bus line numbers but driver duty numbers. For example 37158 started today as KL7106 then becomes KL7101, but a Yarmouth starter today using 37567 was GY2502 until handing over at Kings Lynn and became KL7110. As a direct result of this enquiry, Lowestoft have now decided to use the XL01-19 numbers on its depot run-out sheets with immediate effect to resolve the confusion at this end at least. I hope that clears things up for you". Thanks very much for sorting that out chaps.

1 comment:

Sam Wickham said...

Hi G
Looking back at my log I have 37574 working the 13:38 X2 to Norwich on 18/05/10

Sam