Thursday 14 November 2024 (1135) – Stagecoach East (Cambus) 21303 (BF65 WKS), a Wright Eclipse Urban bodied Volvo B8RLE new in December 2015, seen close to Cambridge railway station working the 1056 Trumpington Park & Ride to St. Ives Busway service A.

The service has buses every 10 minutes but they face late running all the time due to traffic congestion on the non-Busway sections of route - in Cambridge city centre, St. Ives and within the Addenbrooke’s Hospital grounds. Having departed Trumpington 8 minutes late at 1104 it was now about 20 minutes late.

Seen from the rear window of 21234 (AE12 CJV) working the 1106 Trumpington Park & Ride to St. Ives service which had departed 1 minute late at 1107 and had ‘leap frogged’ 21303 at Addenbrooke’s so was now running ahead of it. It passed us by at this point and left before us.

On the right is Whippet Coaches WG117 (MX73 GDF) working the 1116 Universal service U2 from Biomedical Campus/Addenbrooke’s Hospital to Eddington. This is one of nine Mellor Sigma 12 electric buses new in September 2023 for the Universal services U1/U2 which use the southern section of the Busway.

I was travelling to Parkside in the city centre. On my outing today I travelled on three different vehicles. I had initially travelled from Mildenhall to Trumpington on Ambassador Travel 304 (BV72 XFA), a Caetano Levante III bodied Scania K410 new in November 2022, working the 0750 National Express service 727 from Great Yarmouth to Stansted Airport. The third bus was Stephensons 802 (EU24 LWV) working the 1218 service 12 from Cambridge to Newmarket which continued as the 1300 service 16 to Bury St. Edmunds/West Suffolk Hospital via Mildenhall.