East Yorkshire 754 - YX09 BKL
Well... in lieu of another bus which I missed out on - although this time, due to it having a faulty tracker - its time to pull out a long-winded story about... this.
This was absolutely not the sort of photo I would have wanted in any case, but there’s a funny, though somewhat tragic story behind the taking of it. In the middle of the great endeavour to get photos of the last Hull B7TLs in the old livery a few weeks ago, I was deep in the midst of chasing down a 55-plate (registration or fleet number will not be named so I don't clog up searches for it; check the photostream) after having got the 06-plate earlier, and despite the tracker being particularly broken that day, I set up in Kirk Ella at a spot where I thought the 151 would be coming down. Specifically, the Beverley-West Ella Road roundabout. At one moment, I thought I had the wrong street, but I decided I was ‘safe’ because a bus stop heading down from Willerby was on the road I thought the bus would be coming down. Time passes, the tracker doesn’t show a result, but eventually, it comes back up, and it shows…
I was on the wrong street. Strike one. Trust me, I’m looking at Kirk Ella now while I type this up for the scheduled upload, and the place looks a bloody mess even on satellite view - no wonder I missed it.
So, I get in the car, and proceed to enter a chase of the 55-plate through Anlaby right up to the city-county borderline. I’m ready and primed to get the photo, turning on burst mode in case the awkward angle threw me up an issue…
And then for some Godforsaken reason, the photo didn’t take. I then put on a sprint to the nearest junction, probably confusing the hell out of the driver, but by the time I make it, the lights go green and the 55-plate spirits away down Anlaby Road. Strike two.
And now, here we are at this very moment outside of Anlaby Road. At this point, I had decided that if I didn’t get the bus this time, I wouldn’t be getting it at all today. I proceeded to chase it up Anlaby Road, literally getting ahead of and beside the bus at various points as it comes up to be following a B9TL. I park at the East Yorkshire head depot, put on a HARD sprint to the flyover, and eagerly await the arrival of the 55-plate. I see a cream Gemini approaching, a cyclist interrupting my view, but I get the photo anyway out of pure urgency. I sprint HARD back to the car, and think I’ve done a good job of it despite the cyclist blocking my view. And then I checked the photo.
It’s the wrong bus.
Strike three. It’s not even a B7TL. It’s a B9TL. It’s not on the 151. It’s on the 63. I had put myself in actual pain from all the sprinting for nothing. If only I had the foresight to wait just a few minutes more for the B7TL to arrive, then this whole fiasco wouldn’t have happened there, and if only I had realised that Kirk Ella is a bloody mess of a road network and that I needed to be more careful where I plan photos there, this whole bloody fiasco would have never happened in the first place. And as such, all the sprinting knocked me out for a total of five days - in which after that, I finally got the photo I wanted of the B7.
With all that said, East Yorkshire’s 754, a 2009 Volvo B9TL Wright Eclipse Gemini - visually the same as the 55-plate minus the destination which I didn’t notice, in an incident I will now refer to as B7TL-Gate - is seen here being the completely wrong bus I wanted to get as it crosses the Anlaby Flyover on the 63 to Hull Interchange, being passed by a cyclist that blocked the photo on the nearside.
East Yorkshire 754 - YX09 BKL
Well... in lieu of another bus which I missed out on - although this time, due to it having a faulty tracker - its time to pull out a long-winded story about... this.
This was absolutely not the sort of photo I would have wanted in any case, but there’s a funny, though somewhat tragic story behind the taking of it. In the middle of the great endeavour to get photos of the last Hull B7TLs in the old livery a few weeks ago, I was deep in the midst of chasing down a 55-plate (registration or fleet number will not be named so I don't clog up searches for it; check the photostream) after having got the 06-plate earlier, and despite the tracker being particularly broken that day, I set up in Kirk Ella at a spot where I thought the 151 would be coming down. Specifically, the Beverley-West Ella Road roundabout. At one moment, I thought I had the wrong street, but I decided I was ‘safe’ because a bus stop heading down from Willerby was on the road I thought the bus would be coming down. Time passes, the tracker doesn’t show a result, but eventually, it comes back up, and it shows…
I was on the wrong street. Strike one. Trust me, I’m looking at Kirk Ella now while I type this up for the scheduled upload, and the place looks a bloody mess even on satellite view - no wonder I missed it.
So, I get in the car, and proceed to enter a chase of the 55-plate through Anlaby right up to the city-county borderline. I’m ready and primed to get the photo, turning on burst mode in case the awkward angle threw me up an issue…
And then for some Godforsaken reason, the photo didn’t take. I then put on a sprint to the nearest junction, probably confusing the hell out of the driver, but by the time I make it, the lights go green and the 55-plate spirits away down Anlaby Road. Strike two.
And now, here we are at this very moment outside of Anlaby Road. At this point, I had decided that if I didn’t get the bus this time, I wouldn’t be getting it at all today. I proceeded to chase it up Anlaby Road, literally getting ahead of and beside the bus at various points as it comes up to be following a B9TL. I park at the East Yorkshire head depot, put on a HARD sprint to the flyover, and eagerly await the arrival of the 55-plate. I see a cream Gemini approaching, a cyclist interrupting my view, but I get the photo anyway out of pure urgency. I sprint HARD back to the car, and think I’ve done a good job of it despite the cyclist blocking my view. And then I checked the photo.
It’s the wrong bus.
Strike three. It’s not even a B7TL. It’s a B9TL. It’s not on the 151. It’s on the 63. I had put myself in actual pain from all the sprinting for nothing. If only I had the foresight to wait just a few minutes more for the B7TL to arrive, then this whole fiasco wouldn’t have happened there, and if only I had realised that Kirk Ella is a bloody mess of a road network and that I needed to be more careful where I plan photos there, this whole bloody fiasco would have never happened in the first place. And as such, all the sprinting knocked me out for a total of five days - in which after that, I finally got the photo I wanted of the B7.
With all that said, East Yorkshire’s 754, a 2009 Volvo B9TL Wright Eclipse Gemini - visually the same as the 55-plate minus the destination which I didn’t notice, in an incident I will now refer to as B7TL-Gate - is seen here being the completely wrong bus I wanted to get as it crosses the Anlaby Flyover on the 63 to Hull Interchange, being passed by a cyclist that blocked the photo on the nearside.