Tuesday 9 September 2025 (1133) – Cambridgeshire Guided Busway

Two Stagecoach East MCV eVoRa bodied Volvo B8RLEs new in February 2020 seen at Swavesey.

Left: 21311 (BU69 XXE) is seen heading eastbound on the 1126 service A from St. Ives Park & Ride to Trumpington Park & Ride.

Right: 21312 (BU69 XXF) is seen heading westbound on the 1026 from Trumpington Park & Ride.to St. Ives Park & Ride. (Note the running card number FA07 in the windscreen).

The Stagecoach East depot at Fenstanton provides the buses for the company’s Busway services and, according to the ukbuses.co.uk website in August 2025, has an allocation of 14 double deckers (13901-12/15218-15220/15291-15294) and 23 single deckers (21227/21229-21235/21301/21303-21312/21363-21368).

Using data seen on the Bus Times website at the same time, it appears that the Busway services have 13 double deck running cards (FB01-FB13) and 18 single deck running cards (FA01-FB18). (Therefore needing 31 buses). In addition, Fenstanton depot also runs services 5 and 5A (Running cards F0501-F0504 and F5501-F5502 respectively) (Therefore needing a further 5 buses).

In summary 37 buses to cover the 36 running cards.

(Training vehicle 36065 (AJ58 PZZ) is also based at Fenstanton)