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suzyscottdotcomYes - very busy day today!
Firstly, looking out the window, saw some unusual looking trains... including a Hull Trains set... turns out that the electric overhead wires between Peterborough and Huntingdon were down, so trains were being diverted via Royston & Cambridge, or replaced by buses. That explained some weird sightings today anyway...
... No pictures today (batteries died on me!), so I shall spin through what I saw. Stagecoach Olympian 16091 on the 26 from Royston north - then as we came by Trumpington Park & Ride, I noticed the first of the blue Enviro400 double deckers, having its first day in service. I got off the 26 at Trumpington Road and caught an '88'. These are a bit darker blue at the back, dual door, lots of space, and almost all opening windows upstairs!
Olympian 4204 of H&D took me on the 553 to St Ives, where I chanced upon market day, it seemed, before taking Enviro300 5329 back on the same service. The Olympian was repainted and refurbished by Soverign London for the 114 back in 1999, before coming north. The bus hasn't been painted since, and it did start to show inside and out. The Enviro was in much better nick - well it was almost new!
Stopped in the city centre briefly - Galloway & Porter are having another warehouse booksale this weekend!
I then wanted to try out the new extension of the citi4 bus to Kings Hedges & Arbury Park, and walked around to Downing Street, just missing the 1415 one! I went for the 1435, and the two girls in front of me were trying to get the citi4 to Cambourne - used to stop here, now changed, now that it runs cross-city! I then showed my ticket, he asks me where I"m going. I tell him, and he's very happy. "Yes, the first one here today..." OK so it was the second day of the new route, and we had one other passenger to Milton Road shops - as well as me. The route itself is on all the bus stops, but not on the displays of any of the original MAN's which had to show 'city centre 4' instead. At Kings Hedges and Arbury Park, literally it is still a building site, with lots of new homes in build. The bus stop is shown in the gravel!
I then travelled back towards town, did a few other things, before getting the bus back to Royston a little later.
Firstly, looking out the window, saw some unusual looking trains... including a Hull Trains set... turns out that the electric overhead wires between Peterborough and Huntingdon were down, so trains were being diverted via Royston & Cambridge, or replaced by buses. That explained some weird sightings today anyway...
... No pictures today (batteries died on me!), so I shall spin through what I saw. Stagecoach Olympian 16091 on the 26 from Royston north - then as we came by Trumpington Park & Ride, I noticed the first of the blue Enviro400 double deckers, having its first day in service. I got off the 26 at Trumpington Road and caught an '88'. These are a bit darker blue at the back, dual door, lots of space, and almost all opening windows upstairs!
Olympian 4204 of H&D took me on the 553 to St Ives, where I chanced upon market day, it seemed, before taking Enviro300 5329 back on the same service. The Olympian was repainted and refurbished by Soverign London for the 114 back in 1999, before coming north. The bus hasn't been painted since, and it did start to show inside and out. The Enviro was in much better nick - well it was almost new!
Stopped in the city centre briefly - Galloway & Porter are having another warehouse booksale this weekend!
I then wanted to try out the new extension of the citi4 bus to Kings Hedges & Arbury Park, and walked around to Downing Street, just missing the 1415 one! I went for the 1435, and the two girls in front of me were trying to get the citi4 to Cambourne - used to stop here, now changed, now that it runs cross-city! I then showed my ticket, he asks me where I"m going. I tell him, and he's very happy. "Yes, the first one here today..." OK so it was the second day of the new route, and we had one other passenger to Milton Road shops - as well as me. The route itself is on all the bus stops, but not on the displays of any of the original MAN's which had to show 'city centre 4' instead. At Kings Hedges and Arbury Park, literally it is still a building site, with lots of new homes in build. The bus stop is shown in the gravel!
I then travelled back towards town, did a few other things, before getting the bus back to Royston a little later.
