Lucketts Travel (NX owned) X5608 (BU18 OSJ) at Fiveways, Barton Mills - 26 Oct 2021 (P1090741)

Tuesday 26 October 2021 (0844) – Lucketts Travel X5608 (BU18 OSJ) seen at Fiveways, Barton Mills when working the 0750 National Express service 727 from Norwich to Brighton (1445). It was just a moment away from reaching Mildenhall Bus Station where it would then depart at 0855.

Coaches from both Lucketts Travel and Worthing Coaches currently work service 727. National Express acquired the Lucketts Travel Group in March 2020, Worthing Coaches having been acquired by Lucketts in 2005.

Service 727 requires five vehicles each day four of which work from Brighton to Norwich and return on an almost immediate turnround. However, 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, 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.