First Essex Colchester's depot seems to be a magnet for would be bus joy riders, and Colchester's Daily Gazette reports another incident in the early hours of Monday morning, when ex Ipswich Scania 65631 was taken from the depot. Witnesses saw it smash through some gates and reach a standstill by a block of flats. First have confirmed the incident and said the vehicle was undamaged. For the full report click
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| Still with Ipswich vinyls Scania 65631 rests against a block of flats in Colchester. pic Daily Gazette |
Aren't the buses cleaned and fuelled overnight?
ReplyDeletePresumably. I confess I don't know the Colchester layout too well, but this was a Monday morning so I guess not much to do after Sunday operations
ReplyDeleteSame history at Chelmsford. Another way of losing their buses!
ReplyDeleteGot this one wrong then as it wasn't damaged. D'oh!
ReplyDeletedepot only used overnight for storage all washing and refuelling done at Queen street then there taken to magdalen st clive
ReplyDeleteNow that's the sort of info we need!!! Cheers, Clive, much obliged.
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