Other operators — primarily Lynx, Sanders Coaches and First Eastern Counties — have agreed to provide largely commercial replacements for the services that Stagecoach is withdrawing when it closes the former Norfolk Green base in King’s Lynn on 28 April.
Starting 3 April, First replaced Stagecoach’s X29 (Fakenham-Norwich) service by incorporating it into its Yellow Line 28/29 connecting Thorpe Marriott and Taverham with the city centre. X29 journeys operate at least hourly on Monday to Saturday daytime, more frequently at the peaks, and two-hourly on Sundays and bank holidays, the three routes converging in Taverham to provide a 15min daytime service to and from the city. First has transferred four six-year-old Wright Eclipse Gemini 2-bodied Volvo B9TLs from Leeds and branded them for these services.
Starting 29 April, Lynx — headed by former Konectbus managing director Julian Patterson — and Sanders take over the Coasthopper services pioneered by Norfolk Green, for which Stagecoach purchased new Alexander Dennis Enviro200s and Optare Solo SRs. Lynx will operate the section between Hunstanton and Wells-next-the-Sea as the Coastliner 36, which also will replace the section of Stagecoach’s X29 between …
