busway opening 7th August

 The long-awaited guided busway has finally begun carrying passengers on routes through Cambridgeshire. after more than a two year delay. with a vip trip from st Ives park and ride  down the busway  to Cambridge and back. The vip tour using a whippet  Volvo B7RLE/Plaxton Centro and a stagecoach Fens Scania N230UD / Alexander Dennis Enviro 400

AE59EHO on  a VIP trip seen at  Histon

 

15459-AE09GYG on a VIP trip seen at Histon

After the vip run the first passenger run on the busway was stagecoach's B service from Huntington to Cambridge  at 8:30 what was duped  due to demand and with most b's for the day being duped due to public demand whippets c services were having good loads too.  all in all it looked to be a good opening day on the busway but time keeping wasn't the best on stagecoach's side as B's were up too 20 Min's late but this is due to demand of the service

three county bus bash

Well on Monday I had a fantastic bus bash from Wisbech to Bedford via Cambridge.

And here's how it went
 started with a twenty min walk from Elm to Wisbech horsefair bus station.

(204)R186DDX at Wisbech horsefair

I got  Norfolk Green's  06.55 46 to March which landed me one of Norfolk green's optare excel  (204)R186DDX what was a  nice bus and journey across the Fens to March . I was hoping that it would get in one min early as the 46 was due in at march at 07.23 and the 9 to Cambridge was due to leave march at 07.22. luckily the 46 got in two Min's early so i made the 07:22 Stagecoach 9 service to Cambridge. which  landed me an ex Peterborough Dennis trident 18418-AE06GZP and a thrashy trip it was from March to Ely but after a quick driver change at Ely. are service was dupe with 18339-AE55DJZ and set off in front of us. what we later court up with at waterbeach. After a 2hrs 5 Min's late due to traffic in Cambridge and after a walk down to Cambridge park side to get my x5 what landed me with 53610-KX58NCC with turned out to be one of my best mates driving so after a  catch up with her we left Cambridge bang on time at 09.40 and got me to bedford's goldington green near as on time and in to my girl friends arms for a well deserved hug

53606 KX58NBO at cambridge parkside about to do the last  x5 of the night back to bedford

after a good day with jade and her family it was time to leave so i walked down to goldington green for the 21.38  stagecoach bedford service back to Cambridge what landed me 53606 KX58NBO no b7's for me today yesss :) as we arrived back in Cambridge 3 late due to temporary traffic lights on the A428 in  Caxton area . after my nice b9 it was time for the last bus of the day what was an E400 on the 23.05 citi 8 to Histon the E400 was 19616-AE10BYG that turned out to be the last 10 plate E400 i hadn't been on so it was a good bus to end the night on  . i can defiantly say that was a great bash with all vehicle's being great would defiantly do it again  when i next stay over my mates in wisbech

sorry

sorry for the lack of posts this is due to alot going on over the past month or so but were back and  even betther than last time :) so sit back and injoy the blog with tomorrows post of the treck from wisbeach to bedford via cambridge to see the other half :) as i had a week end at sir robs in wisbech  and been to crick post will follow of the trip and yes we saw the fh16 vovlo lorry and stagecoach midlands training coach :)

X5 Shocker in Cambridge

was in Cambridge doing a bit of shopping for my holiday in hunstantion and a Carlisle all-nighter
when i was walking on east road up to newmarket road to get a new back pack i saw  one of the volvo B10ble/ wright renown's what are ex stagecoach huntingdon. the bus was 21162-R122HNK  what would of done the 10:15 x5 bedford-cambridge then the 11:40 x5 cambridge to oxford and probaly get changend at beford back to a coach  video is on utube and below 

T-Jay and the dayrider plus bash

yesterday i went to see a mate of mine at cambourne and then got a nice dayrider plus bash in too when he went to see his mum in hospital in the after-noon and as i was meeting back up with him for a beer at 7pm at Cambourne so heres the bash photo of the buses i had too photos were taken on my phone so not the best quality but they do.
               The buses bashed
 19568-AE10BWD  Histon to Cambridge on Citi 8
19590-AE10BXB Cambridge to Cambourne Citi 4
19597-AE10BXK Cambourne to St Neoats Citi 4
34443-KV53EZX St Neoats to Huntingdon 65
21224AE09GYU Huntingdon to St Ives 55
15458 AE09GYF St Ives to Cambridge Citi 5
19581 AE11BWO Cambridge to Cambourne Citi 4

19568-AE10BWD after working citi8

19590-AE10BXB awaiting to do my citi4 to cambourn 

19597-AE10BXK after finishing a great trip up the A428 on the citi4 

15458 AE09GYF at St Ives after doing my 55 from Huntingdon 

15458 AE09GYF sat at St Ives waiting to do my citi 5 to cambridge via all the little villages but it a good route and the 1h 10 mins fly by 

all in all not a bad bus in the day even the ex bedford dart was okay on the 65 and just got around offord bridge  .And the citi4 from cambourne to st neoats was great with lots of thrash .

thanks for reading  next bash to come soon 

 

X5 bash madness

Well this evening my miss is off to bedford for the night on the x5 with me at home (yay) and said I should come as far as st neoats as I had been given my sisters megarider plus as it runs out tonight. So on my radom bash I have done
The 17:50 service b from  orchard park to cambridge and had 21230-AE09GZA a nice busway volvo b7

Then the 19:40 x5 cambridge to stneoats were I had 53606

Then the 20:20 x5 st neoats to cambridge were I had 53611-KX58NCD then awalk to sainsburys for a pizza for tea and and then got the citi2 from bridge st to mill rd and had 22325-Ae51RZB a nice bus to end the eve on

BAND NEW X5 COACH IS HERE exclusive photos

well i bring you an exclusive no one else has there photos The brand new plaxton panther 1 reg AE11FMF-53618 This should hit the by the end of this week . 53618 is here to replace 53614 that had a accident near bedford and was badly fire damaged and was scraped here are the one photos of it below woul like to thank the littleport lion rob brooks and stagecoach macanic for poping shutter up