Don't normally do these. Decided to head to Berwick as I didn't make it a few weeks ago.
Left the house around 0830, got to Stannington and realised S1 was due, so went over to St Mary's Estate and it was the usual Dart on the service.
Onwards up the A1, where I called into the depot of Travelsure to get a few photos.
Then head a further few miles up, and since the tide was at it's low point during the morning, it meant the 477 Holy Island service was only going to do one trip today, so went up to the causeway and got a photo of Perryman's 477 branded Solo heading in each direction over the causeway.
Quick dash over to the coach park on Holy Island revealed to contain 5 coaches, 3 of them National Holidays (of which I photoed one of them on the causeway). Heading back to the mainland, my fuel light came on, so a quick top up of fuel at Beal services, before a bit of off roading to West Goswick user work crossing on the ECML where I photoed a Southbound Super Voyager. Returned to the A1 eventually and headed to Spittal crossing where I photoed a Northbound XC service before the crossing keeper allowed me to Cross.
In Spittal photoed a service B6 Solo SR heading into the seaside village, before getting a great shot of the same vehicle heading into Highcliffe estate with the bridges in the background and a Virgin EC 225 set on the Royal Border Bridge. Next was a quick drive to the leisure centre in Tweedmouth to await the arrival of Travelsure service 32 which was their Solo SR YJ11EKR.
Then into the Pastures Estate to photo the Holy Island Solo again on the B2 / B3, then I went to park up in West End, and decided to get some bus and train photos on the main road bridge over the Tweed. Returned to the car via the old road bridge that is now one way, before heading up to the Perryman's Depot for some more photos.
Decided to continue my way up to Dunbar, where I noted that two 253 were operating close together (one going normal route to Edinburgh, whilst one was going more direct.). Managed to get the direct running service, but missed out getting the normal service as it operated on a different road to the A1. Into Dunbar via a quick visit to the Eve's depot before going into the Town Centre to get a photo of First service X8 which won't be running for much longer.
Consulting the timetable book I picked up from the Perryman's depot, I noted that 2 service 60s crossed at Duns at 1830ish, so headed to there and photoed both vehicle before returning home via Coldstream and Wooler (with a quick look in at the Glen Valley depot).
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