IB SCANIA OMNICITY DECKER 39 ENTERS SERVICE

Ipswich Buses Scania Omnicity Decker 39 YR61 RUV arrived at the weekend and entered service on a School working on Monday afternoon, followed by entering service on the 2 to Ipswich Hospital yesterday, before failing during the afternoon and replaced by Dart 136, whilst seen above it spent the majority of the day on the 15A and some late workings on the 3 to John Lewis, other unusual workings yesterday saw Enviro 79 on the 3 before doing 3 trips on the 4 from 1535. Other things worth noting is the 1520 15 service is worked off the 8, as the Double Decker in today's case DAF Lowlander 59 is taken off for a school working, also unusual was Scania Omnicity 75 on the 15 for most of the day before being replaced by Scania Omnicity Decker 42 and doing one trip on the 6 and returning on which is a Double Decker working due to the volume of St Albans pupils and was packed with standing and displaying Bus Full when leaving, even Optare Solo 245 got in the act by doing a school run fully loaded when entering Tower Ramparts.Meanwhile unusual working for First Ipswich saw Volvo B7TL 32489 on the 60/61 Monday and 32479 today, whilst Mini E200 44928 was also on for much of the day before being replaced by Volvo B7RLE 69425 in the afternoon.

Usually Scania Omnicity Decker worked the 94 paid host to DAF Lowlander 58 today.

VISITORS TO IPSWICH

 Now according to Flickr this is an early Volvo B12B with a Volvo 9700 body N27 SUN of Sunbeam of Norwich original registration VL05 VBL.

 It's not often you see an Welsh coach reaching East Anglia so here we have VDL Futura 2 WA15 BVY of Mainline Coaches residing in Gilfach Goch.

MULLEYS FLEET

Mulleys ex Nottingham and ex Scania Demonstrator, Scania Omnicity YN54 AHA seen on Bury St Edmunds town service M22.

BUSES

BIG 6885 Leyland Olympian/Alexander RH DPH55/45F
MUI 6449/7919/7924/49 Volvo B7TL/ALX 400 H49/27F
SJ02 AAW Volvo B7TL/ALX 400 H49/27F
YN04 UJP-T Scania Omnidekka/East Lancs H51/39F
YN54 AHA/D/E/NXF Scania Omnicity/Scania B42F
YN04 GMU Scania Omnicity/Scania B35F
YN03 UWJ Scania Omnicity/Scania B42F
CN54 HFC Optare Solo M990/Optare B35F
AE06 YYU Optare Solo M920/Optare B32F
CN06 BXJ Optare Solo M920/Optare B31F
CN56 BXJ Optare Solo M920/Optare B31F
MX57 HDH Optare Solo M950/Optare B29F
YJ57 YDB Optare Solo M1020/Optare B37F

Coaches

WSV 555/888 Volvo B12B/Van Hool C59FT/C49FT
222 VKE/444 NXX Volvo B12BT/Berkhof CH61/18CT
N76 PYN Kassbohrer Setra/Kassbohrer C53F
S595/598 KJF Volvo B10M-62/Jonckheere C57F
X471/2 KUT Volvo B10M-62/Jonckheere C53/70F
BU51 MUL Mercedes Benz 1223L/Euro Coach C41F
TC03 TLC Scania K114IB4/Van Hool C53FL
OO04 MUL Iveco CC10E21F/P/Indcar C31F
YN05 HBO Scania K94IB/Irizar C70F
WCF 99 Volvo B12BT/Van Hool C57FT
X661 NWY Volvo B10MT/Plaxton C51FT

Please advise if any corrections needed as only get updates through PSV Circle.

IPSWICH TO FELIXSTOWE RUN

 Highlights from yesterday's Ipswich to Felixstowe run, all are taken at Felixstowe from a mobile phone so are not the best first up is Eastern Counties Bristol G VG 5541 originally with Norwich Electric Tramways as 43 and taken over by Eastern Counties in 1935 and renumbered LG 4 and conerted to open top in 1950 as HLG 4 and in it's last year as HLG 496 this was bought back to the UK from Californa USA by Roger Burdett in 2000, the work to restore it took 17 years and 2 pictures show both sides.

 Another surprise was this ICT AEC Regal 8 BPV 8 which remains in out of service condition.

 From Cambridge came this Eastern Counties Bristol RELH RE 896 SVF 896G.

 In a fictitious livery of Beautiful Britain and preserved by Fred Lawrence is this Mercedes Benz 609D/Reeve Burgess C25F

From the EATM came this superbly restored Lowestoft AEC Swift 4 YRT 896H.

FIRST ESSEX ALLOCATIONS MAY 3RD 2018

 First Essex Allocations May

Still in the old variant of First Group livery is Scania L94UB/Wright Solar 65679 YR52 VEH.

BE: 4230	Now an outstation of CF, its 5 deckers  rotate  as required with those at CF  53112ws/4we/6ws/26we/8we/9we/31ws/7ws.         e=east fence, s=south fence.        8                                                           Note since 18/2, only 5 vehicles work the 70 from BE	05 8w
CF: 4240	32480/1/2/3/4/5.  32651/2/4. see BE. 37985/6. 41493/4. 41512-4/20/1/2.  42895.  42900/22/3/30-2-4-6/9/68.  43847/8.    44537-51/96-9. 44659-62.  44900.    53114/6/7/21/3/5/7/9/32/3/4/6/8/9.   53209. 65031.  66719/30/94/5/6/7/9.   66802/8/11/2/4/5/7/8/29w/30/7.  67165-71.  67189-95.   68508/9/10/20/31/2w/5/51w.    69421/9/30/1/2/3/4.     69532/3.	116 +5 At BE
CR: 4280	32068/87. 32475/6-8.  32628/31/40/1/2.  33044/78/80/6v/7/8/184/5/6.    37009/10/5-7/20/133-6/8/9/40.  61230. 62407. 63328-39/40-4.  65672w/3/4w/7-80w-2/3w/4/5/6/7.    65742/3/5/6/8/50. 66798.  66800/1/3/4/7/9w/10/6/28.	80
CN: 4250	42555/6/7w/61.  42918/27/8/37.   43845/6.   62408-10. 65028/9/30/2.  65665w/6/7/8/9/70/1/5/6/88/9/90-2.	27
BN: 4200	33047/77.  33178/88/92/4.   33424/5.  33504/7/44-6/8/9/51-3/5/7-9/61-3/7/8/70/2-4.   41523-5/7/38-44.    42519.        47650-6-8.   67160-4.   66806/13/9/21/2-7.    69901-19.	83
HH: 4210	33072/3/4/81/90/5/8/133/4/6.  33186v/9/90/1/229/32.  33373/6/83/4/5v.        42482/3/4/5/7/6/8/9.    44001/2/3/4/5/6/80v/1.  47521-30/643-9.  63161-4/5-70.  69515-20.	69
DVT	62139/91/5w/7w. 62242.  66179.	06
	Error 42929 not with FE,  CF 43845 is 43847.
soon	65031 to CN                              Note  All 02 plate Solo’s should be D/L, but not confirmed.
	62195/7w not confirmed. 68532/51w not confirmed.   65686 ?, 65742/3/5/6/8/50 are CR-Larbert depot by 30-4.
Note	The four digit codes are First Group codes. Underlined Vehicles are this months transfers.

  

                                           

Seen in Colchester Osbourne Street is First Colchester Volvo B7TL AU53 HJO.

COLOUR IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES RECALLED

Haven't done an Eastern Counties recall in quite some time now so tonight two images that depict or categorise the word colour on my favourite type of bus of course, going back to time when colour was king in the mid 1970's we see Bristol VR 127 RAH 127M when pretty new, amongst the daffodils of spring lightening up Castle Meadow in Norwich no doubt whilst below that we see Bristol VR 254 PCL 254W on display at what could be Norwich Showground? advertising the National Travelworld, note that the upper window frame displays NBC red, and of course the addition of a mural adds to the colour.

IPSWICH UPDATE

Time to update on the Ipswich scene after last weeks Colchester interlude, we kick offf with the good news of Ipswich Buses Lowlander 58 re entering service after gearbox failure on one trip on Wednesday on the 2 before taking up a school service to Shotley, before having a full day out on Colchesters on the Thursday and today it worked the 15A. Lowlander 100 has taken it's place in the withdrawn line this again has suffered Gear Box Failure also the chassis is in poor shape, meanwhile Trident 16 has departed leaving just the 3 Tridents to be withdrawn, 22 is believed to be the next to depart.

IB Scania Omnicity 42 entered service late on Wednesday with one trip on the 6 before settling down 2 days on the trot on the 5 to Ipswich Hospital.

Today saw plenty of buses straying from there normal routes including IB Excel 173 on the 4 which had replaced an ailing Optare Versa.

Usually Double Decked worked on Saturday is the 5 to Ipswich Hospital instead Optare Versa broke away from it's usual routes the 1 and 3.

Even First Ipswich joined in by using ADL Enviro 200 45119 on it's town services the 60/61 usually it will be found on the 59 to Rushmere or the 70 to Woodbridge. Other things noted today included IB Scania Omnicity Decker 35 filling in on the 1 to John Lewis due to the same old problem of cars queuing up as usual in the Buttermarket when will someone like the police take care of this it's just not this week it occurs but every Saturday without fail. IB Trident 13 spent the day on the 2whilst Lowlander 55 was on the 6, and Enviro 105 was on the 13. First Ipswich wise E300 67406 started the day on Park and Ride before a trip out on the 75 to Felixstowe, then the 88 to Stowmarket. Beestons new Enviro 400 MMC YX18 KOH has entered service this week, today it was on the Tiptree contract.

MORE FROM COLCHESTER

Representing the Volvo B7RLE/Wrightbus Eclipse Urban of First in Colchester is this ex First Manchester 66816 MX05 CDY.

 One of the oldest buses i spotted yesterday was this Dennis Dart SLF Hedingham 251 PJ02 RHE.

You can not escape the Wrightbus Streetlite where ever you go including this longer version the MX DF 63244 SN65 EFC. Below is the Plaxton President bodied 33184 LR02 LZB of First Colchester on the 61.

Hedingham ADL Enviro 400 EU07 GVY still in original Hedingham livery.

Arriva Colchester run the only Park and Ride there with Enviro 200's including SK15 GXT.