Stagecoach peterborough :out with the old in with the new

I payed peterborough a trip on Saturday to bash some of the new  60 plate enviro 400s they got to replace the older 06 plate alx400 tridents on the citi 1.

optare solo  photoed at st neots rail stn

60013 at peterborough

my route up to peterborough from Cambridge was the beastly X5 to st neots where i happily landed one of the spare Volvo b7 coach's from the old virgin train contract then from st neots i got the 62 st neots town to the rail stain what landed me a 58 plate optare solo (as seen on the left) then on to my train to peterborough that landed me two class 365.  got to peterborough in time to photo a class 60 (60013) (photo above) on a extremely rare working to marks Tye in Suffolk via Cambridge  probably the first one for a good 5 years . for a great photo of 60013 at harts drove whittlsey by rob brooks  click here

stagecoach peterborough have got 14 new e400 they are

19693-	AE60JPV	19700	AE60JRZ
19694	AE60JPX	19701	AE60JSU
19695	AE60JPY	19702	AE60JSV
19696	AE60JRO	19703	AE60JSX
19697	AE60JRU	19704	AE60JSY
19698	AE60JRV	19705	AE60JSZ
19699	AE60JRX	19706	AE60JTO

19700

AE60JRZ

19702-AE60JSV on the 46 at stilton.

on saterday only 10 of which were in sevice with some of the older 06 plates still in service on the citi1 what i made sure i bashed i also bashed 19702 on a 46 what is a stray in it self bashed it to stilton to meet the 46 back to peterborough  but the bus went down but never cam back form the bottem of the village so hade to wait  a hour for 33306  what need water so sat on that for 30 mins waiting for fitters to roll up . they rolled up in a ex london oly and the driver had the pick what to take to peterborough he did pick the volvo oly at a hight of 13'10 but i remined him of hotpoint bridge at 13'09 so we took the dart back to peterborough were the driver was ever so thank full that i told him . by the end of the day i had bashed two alx400 trident  five E400's and two ex cambridge 51 plate alx 300 mans  and a 51 plate dart .not a bad days work me thinks so i headed back to the rail staion for my train back to st neots what was another 365 and my coach back to cambridge was the nice normal b9 coach .  good day in the end i think