Worthing Coaches (NX owned) X5612 (BU18 OSN) in Mildenhall - 28 Oct 2021 (P1090771)

Thursday 28 October 2021 (0855) – Worthing Coaches X5612 (BU18 OSN) seen in Mildenhall when working the 0750 National Express service 727 from Norwich to Brighton (1445).

Worthing Coaches is part of the Lucketts Travel Group. The Group was acquired by National Express in March 2020, Lucketts had acquired Worthing Coaches in 2005 retaining the name as an operating subsidiary.

Coaches from both Lucketts and Worthing Coaches currently work service 727 which requires five vehicles each day. Four of these work from Brighton to Norwich and return on an almost immediate turnround but the coach working the 0750 from Norwich had worked the 1415 service from Brighton the previous day arriving in Norwich at 2105 remaining there overnight. (The last northbound trip of the day actually works the first southbound trip of the day – 2350 in and 0350 out).

The coach had just departed from the bus station the conical roof of which can be seen in the background beyond the tree on the left of the photograph. It is a Caetano Levante bodied Scania K410EB6 that was new in March 2018, is based at Spencer Road, Lancing near Worthing which is about ten miles west of Brighton.