First Eastern Counties Buses 36906 (YN69 XZK) on the A47 near Thorney - 21 Mar 2024 (P1170701)

Thursday 21 March 2024 (1131) – First Eastern Counties Buses 36906 (YN69 XZK), seen travelling eastbound on the A47 just west of Thorney.

The A47 (East Midlands-Great Yarmouth) road carries lots of commercial traffic and in summer the additional holiday traffic increases the volume and yet, for a major cross-country road, is for the most part just single carriageway.

36906, an Alexander Dennis (ADL) Enviro400 City bodied Scania N250UD new in December 2019, was working the 1110 ‘excel’ service B from Peterborough to Norwich. This vehicle was the first of the 19 such buses allocated to King’s Lynn garage for the upgraded ‘excel’ service.

The photograph was taken from the upper deck of sister vehicle 36904 (YN69 XZH) on which I was travelling from Wisbech (1105) to Peterborough (1147) as it worked the 0840 westbound ‘excel’ service C from Norwich to Peterborough.