Thursday 18 September 2025 (1219) – The First Eastern Counties Buses garage at King’s Lynn is located in Vancouver Avenue a short distance away from where this photograph was taken in London Road and as a result is where drivers changeover when operating the Norwich-Peterborough ‘excel’ service. The garage has an allocation of about 15 Alexander Dennis (ADL) Enviro400 City bodied Scania N250UDs to operate this service. The 19 buses numbered 36901-36919 were delivered in November/December 2019. The four remaining buses are based at Norwich to operate ‘excel’ journeys from the eastern end of the service.

On the left is 36912 (YN69 XZS) unusually devoid of any rear end graphics, was working the 1017 service from Norwich to Peterborough. On the right is 36911 (YN69 XZR) working the 1040 Peterborough to Norwich service.

The ‘excel’ service timetable is quite complex but uniform. To legitimately keep this quite lengthy service within the rules of local bus service regulations rather than the more stringent rules pertaining to true long distance type operations, the services are registered in shorter segments although the buses run through:
PF0000323/373: Norwich-East Dereham
PF0000323/372: East Dereham-King’s Lynn
PF0000323/371: King’s Lynn-Wisbech
PF0000323/370: Wisbech-Peterborough
PF0000323/433: Norwich-Swaffham

The full timetable may be seen via this link: tinyurl.com/wt35yxnv