AMONGST THE GREY SKIES

Amongst the gloomy skies of Tower Ramparts this afternoon i spotted an rare event, since the appearance of the Mercedes Benz Citario's on the 9, other buses appearing on this route have been basically non existent, well not today as can be seen above by Ipswich Buses Lowlander 56 PN52 XBK meanwhile the 4 Branded Darts for the 4 route continue there wanderings, yesterday 84/85/86 were on the 8/13 with 87 on the 12 while Dart/ALX 200 141 was on the 6 and 144 on the X1, today saw 87 back on the 4 with 84 on the 15A then later on the 6, 85 on the 8/13 with 86 spare in the Cricketers Lay By, while a strange choice for Ipswich Buses on a peak time working for the 15A was Dart/ALX 200 141 Y273 FJN , see below while below First Ipswich had Volvo B7TL 32490 AU53 HKH on the 60/61

BEESTONS SINGLE DOOR CONVERSIONS

Many thanks to Dave Burrows at Beestons who has sent me these photos of two of the recent Scania Omnidekkas originally from Metrobus converted to Single Door at the top we see YV03 PZY and the bottom one is of YV03 PZL.