Christiansen (DK) CW 94 029 in Bury St. Edmunds (UK) - 12 Sep 2014 (DSCF5935)

Friday 12 September 2014 (1403) - Christiansen Busser of Særslev, Fyn (Funen), Denmark CW 94 029 seen in Bury St. Edmunds, UK. A Volvo B13R/9700 tri-axle coach that was new in March 2011 registered XP 92 187 (re-registered to CW 94 029 in 2012).

It was working a seven day tour to ‘York and Cambridge’ marketed by travel company Gislev Rejser and had departed Denmark on Sunday 7 September sailing from Esbjerg (DK) at 1845 by DFDS ferry arriving in Harwich (UK) at 1200 on Monday 8 September. The first overnight stay was in Cambridge.

On Tuesday 9 September the tour moved on to York spending three nights there (Tuesday 9, Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 September).

On Friday 12 September the tour departed York travelling ‘via Nottingham and Colchester’ according to the brochure making a lunch stop in Bury St. Edmunds on the way to Harwich. The DFDS ferry was scheduled to depart from Harwich at 1745 arriving in Esbjerg at 1300 on Saturday 13 September.

Two pickup routes were offered for this tour. One covering towns in eastern Jutland operating from Aalborg (1115) in the extreme north travelling via Haverslev (1140), Hobro (1155), Randers (1225), Århus (1315), Skanderborg (1345), Horsens (1440), Vejle (1500), Skærup motorway service area (1520), Fredericia (1530), Kolding (1600) and Vamdrup (1610). A second line of route was offered from the island of Fyn originating at Rudkøbing (1240) travelling via Svendborg (1310), Kværndrup (1330), Gislev (1340), Ringe (1350), Odense town (1430), Odense motorway service area (1445) and Middelfart (1515). The two feeder routes would probably have merged at Vamdrup (1610).

(I was just departing with my bus at the time and quickly snapped this photograph!).