DSCN3319 Norfolk Green YJ09 EZU and S154 NNH

Monday 10 August 2009 (1506) – Two buses of Norfolk Green (Go-West Travel Ltd) seen in Hunstanton Bus Station. Right: Optare Solo 312 (YJ09 EZU) was moving on to the loading stand after a driver changeover. It had arrived from Kings Lynn as the 1425 service 35 and about to continue as the 1510 service to Cromer (due 1700). These services are a through working on the ‘Coasthopper’ service. Left: Plaxton Beaver bodied Mercedes-Benz Vario 415 (S154 NNH) (new late 1998/early 1999) was acting as the crew changeover waiting room. The Solo is one of six new similar buses added to the fleet earlier this year (2009) which sport a revised ‘Coasthopper’ livery, the Vario carries the old ‘Coasthopper’ livery. Each Solo carries the name of a person who has lived on or near the Norfolk coast. 312 is named Sylvia Townsend Warner, after the novelist and poet who once lived at Salthouse, a village on the ‘Coasthopper’ route.