Well what a day, it started Sunny then a torrential downpour and as they say sometimes you have to suffer for you art, so to kick off Ipswich Buses had all over ad DAF Lowlander 54 PF04 WML out on the X5 Ipswich Hospital route for the first time, i must say that all in all its quite pleasant to the eye but then anything Blue and White to me rather then Yellow and Green is okay. As can be seen below the weather was far better 30 minutes previous, and pictured below is Galloway Optare Solo SR YJ65 EWG which was it's first day in service on the 113/14 to Diss in the capable hands of Owen Phillips.
Mean time it's been a rather lucrative week for First Ipswich as the have been using Plaxton Paragon Volvo B12M WV02 EUP 20514 on Rail Replacement between Ipswich and Felixstowe as Abellio can't cope with a few leaves on the line!
There was also a lot of funny allocations on IB routes today as Scania Omnidekka 62 was allocated to the 4, DAF Lowlander 58 was on the X3 with E200 79 it makes me think are the current ALX 200 Darts being phased out?, and an ALX 200 Dart 140 replaced a Lowlander 55 on the 15, whilst a Trident was on the X1. Captured below is Dennis Lance 162 L162 ADX making a rare visit to the Town Centre.
First Ipswich and Ipswich Buses were raising money for Children in Need by bringing their Teddy Bears to work and various members of staff for both companies wore fancy dress. Many thanks to Chris Speed who sent me this photo of the Ipswich Engineering team with their Teddy Bears.
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