Stagecoach East 21311 (BV18 YCA) and 13910 (BU69 XYL) at Swavesey - 9 Sep 2025 (P1220277)

Tuesday 9 September 2025 (1125) – Stagecoach East buses seen at Swavesey on the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway.

Left: 21311 (BV18 YCA), a Wright Eclipse Urban 3 bodied Volvo B8RLE new in March 2018, is seen heading eastbound on the 1056 service A from St. Ives Marley Road to Trumpington Park & Ride.

Right: 13910 (BU69 XYL), an Alexander Dennis Enviro400XLB bodied Volvo B8L delivered in December 2019, is seen heading westbound on the 1045 service B from Cambridge to Huntingdon and Hinchingbrooke Hospital.

The Stagecoach East depot at Fenstanton provides the buses for the company’s Busway services and, according to the ukbuses.co.uk website in August 2025, has an allocation of 14 double deckers (13901-12/15218-15220/15291-15294) and 23 single deckers (21227/21229-21235/21301/21303-21312/21363-21368).

Using data seen on the Bus Times website at the same time, it appears that the Busway services have 13 double deck running cards (FB01-FB13) and 18 single deck running cards (FA01-FB18). (Therefore needing 31 buses). In addition, Fenstanton depot also runs services 5 and 5A (Running cards F0501-F0504 and F5501-F5502 respectively) (Therefore needing a further 5 buses).

In summary 37 buses to cover the 36 running cards.

(Training vehicle 36065 (AJ58 PZZ) is also based at Fenstanton)