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Thursday 18 September 2025 (1131) – Go to Town (West Norfolk Community Transport) buses seen in King’s Lynn Bus Station. Left to right: SK18 TKO, a Wright Streetlite WF new in May 2018, working service 5 to Gaywood Park. The other three buses are on lay-over: LN18 EWC, a Mellor bodied Mercedes-Benz 516 CDi new in April 2018. SK18 TKN, a Wright Streetlite WF new in May 2018. BX69 CVJ, a Wright Streetlite WF new in February 2020.

Thursday 18 September 2025 (1133) – Stagecoach East Midlands 10054 (SN13 EEA), an Alexander Dennis (ADL) Enviro400D, seen in King’s Lynn bus station between trips on service 505. It had worked the 0850 service from Spalding (due at 1129) and would return there on the 1150 service. It had been new to Norfolk Green (Go West Travel) as their number 23 in April 2013. The Norfolk Green business was acquired by Stagecoach in December 2013.

Thursday 18 September 2025 (approx. 1130) – A stand-off or attempt to kiss? Most of the single deckers in the Lynx (Coastal Red Limited) fleet are Optare Tempos acquired from different sources. About 20 such models are operated. Two examples that had both been new to Trent Barton/trentbarton are seen here on lay-over in King’s Lynn Bus Station. Left is 11 (YJ07 VSK) new in August 2007 (as Trent Barton 313) and right is 16 (FD54 JYB) new in February 2005 (as Trent Barton 303).

Tuesday 28 October 2025 (1224) – Stagecoach East 86028 (BV23 NTL) seen Trumpington Street, Cambridge. It is an MCV bodied Volvo BZL, one of the thirty electric double deckers placed in service in the city around May 2023 (Fleet numbers 86001-86030). The rear light layout is quite different from the old traditional style round or even square formats.

Saturday 1 July 2017 (0816) – A mixture of old and new architecture in Portland Terrace, Southampton. Xelabus 427 (YY66 PDZ), an Alexander Dennis (ADL) Enviro200 new in December 2016, passes a row of grand looking houses as it emerges from beneath the glass edifice of the West Quay shopping centre. The view from the fronts of the houses may once have been better than that of today.

Friday 1 June 2018 (0843) – Go North East 6303 (NK16 BXC), a Wrightbus Streetdeck new in March 2016, seen crossing the Tyne Bridge into Newcastle from Gateshead. It carries the livery for the Bishop Auckland to Newcastle ‘Castles Express’ service X21. The bridge was opened by King George V and Queen Mary in October 1928 and has become a defining symbol of Tyneside.

Saturday 26 July 2025 – For quite some time this derelict Plaxton President bodied double decker has stood on land adjacent to The Willows Campsite, Hurdle Drove, West Row. Its position offers good views of the runway at RAF Mildenhall - so perhaps that is its purpose? It lacks window glass so wouldn’t provide good shelter though! The broken registration plate begins with an ‘X’ so would imply it was new between March 2000 and February 2001.

Thursday 18 March 2004 - In 2000 the Mayflower Corporation (owners of bus manufacturers Alexander, Dennis and Duple Metsec) merged with the Henleys Group (owners of coachbuilder and dealer Plaxton) to form TransBus International. This scene shows part of the workshop premises at South Anston near Sheffield. On site there were about 18 tri-axle double decker buses which had operated in Hong Kong and possibly East Africa. In this view are three 1990 Alexander bodied Leyland Olympian ON3R49C18Z4 ex Hong Kong examples. In the distance ER 9169 (ex Citybus 131), against the doors ES 4877 (ex Citybus 145) and bottom right ES 3771 (ex Citybus 143). The white coach is X812 XEX, a Volvo B10M-62/Plaxton (Sep 2000), lettered for McEwens Coaches yet retaining the graphics of its previous operator, Simonds of Botesdale. Also in the photo is a Shearings Holidays Volvo B10M and former Shearings 713 (N713 UVR), Volvo/Van Hool Across the road, beyond ER 9169, is the coach showroom/sales area.

Saturday 18 June 1994 (approx. 1300) – Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Limited LW796 (OEX 796W) was seen heading out of Mildenhall when working the Thetford-Newmarket service 200. It is a Willowbrook bodied Leyland Leopard PSU3E/4R that was new as a National Express liveried coach in December 1980 (with fleet number LL796). In the split of ECOC it passed to Ambassador Travel for continued use on National Express services. However, it later returned to ECOC. In the days leading up to this photograph being taken new boundary signs had been erected on the main roads leading into Mildenhall.

Tuesday 17 August 2010 (1015) – Goodsir Coaches from Holyhead on the Isle of Anglesey. North Wales 708 EYG was a most unusual visitor to Mildenhall which I just managed to snap whilst out shopping! A Berkhof Axial bodied Volvo the original registration of which I believe was FN03 DXM and new to Brown of Broxburn, West Lothian in April 2003. Welsh dragons proudly flank the fleetname in the front windscreen. The livery is of a previous owner Caelloi Motors of Pwllheli.

Easter Monday 1 April 2013 (1204) – Abellio London 9471 (LJ09 OKD), an Alexander Dennis Trident new in August 2009 (to Travel London), seen in Gracechurch Street on London Buses contracted service 344. The pillar in the background is The Monument to the Great Fire of London of 1666 built during the 1670s.

Friday 7 February 1992 (approx. 1330) – Eastern Counties VR196 (TEX 406R), an Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol VR new in June 1977, passing through Barton Mills on service 155 bound for Bury St. Edmunds. Lamb Cottage stands behind the village sign, it was once the Lamb Inn which had closed many years ago.

Wednesday 4 February 2026 – In December 2025 another autonomous vehicle trial commenced in the Cambridge area organised by the Greater Cambridge Partnership which uses the ‘Connector’ name. This latest trial is also operated by Whippet Coaches and links the Park and Ride sites at Trumpington and at Babraham Road travelling through the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, home of two major hospitals and to of a number of medical research facilities. Four round trips run Mondays to Fridays departing Trumpington at 0930, 1030, 1200 and 1300 which return from Babraham Road thirty minutes later. YY74 MWE, an Alexander Dennis E100EV first registered in February 2025, and was seen at Trumpington prior to working the 1030 trip. A second similar vehicle is used on the trial registered YY74 MWF.

Friday 27 February 2026 (1202) – A view from the top deck of Stagecoach East 86009 (BV23 NRU), an MCV bodied Volvo BZL electric new in April 2023, working the 1200 service PR4 to the Babraham Road Park & Ride site.. A varied selection of buses can be seen in Drummer Street Bus Station up ahead. Two buses can be identified. Stagecoach East 10878 (YX67 VDP), an Alexander Dennis (ADL) Enviro400D new in October 2017, now wearing the latest Stagecoach Group corporate livery. It was arriving on the 1035 service 905 from Bedford. Whippet Coaches WG101 (BG59 FYB), a Wright Eclipse bodied Volvo B7RLE new in December 2009 as a Volvo demonstrator, working the 1130 service X2 from Addenbrooke’s Hospital to Huntingdon. Parked on the loading bays are other double deckers of Stagecoach East (an ocean green Busway bus) and a bus in local services (yellow rear end) livery. The red vehicle is an A2B Bus and Coach bus in Tiger livery.

Friday 1 June 2018 (1018) – Go North East 672 (NK16 BXO), an Optare Solo new in March 2016, seen in Wallsend. Allocated to Percy Main garage and wearing ‘indiGo’ branding and livery it was operating service 42 from Cramlington to North Shields. Wallsend is named as the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall, the Roman name for the settlement was Segedunum which is shown on the brown direction sign on the right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segedunum www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/segedunum

Wednesday 5 May 2004 - Pausing to let its ‘Trafalgar Tours’ party view Belfast City Hall, was PN02 TJV, a Spanish built Sunsundegui Sideral bodied Volvo operated by John Shaw of Silverdale, Lancashire, England. (Travellers Choice).

Monday 9 August 1993 – H S Neave and Sons Limited of Catfield, Norfolk VBH 605S seen travelling along St. Stephen’s Street in Norwich in the pouring rain when working their service to Wroxham and Stalham. It is a Duple Dominant bodied Bedford YMT that had been new to Tricentrol of Dunstable in April 1978 although had been bought from fellow Norfolk operator Smith’s of Blofield in 1988. In the background is Eastern Counties Omnibus Company VR308 (PRC 854X), an Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol VR.

Sunday 29 Sept 2019 – Showbus, Hertfordshire County Showground Preserved former Todmorden Corporation 14 (C 2367) is a 1921 Leyland G2.