United Counties K712 ASC and TNH 871R at Fiveways Garage, Barton Mills - 30 Sep 1995

Saturday 30 September 1995 – Stagecoach owned United Counties Omnibus Company was operating a number of contracts to Cambridge Regional College in the mid 1990s, one of which commenced from Mildenhall.

The company outstationed buses from their Huntingdon garage which were parked on what was the site of Fiveways Garage at Barton Mills. This was a used car dealer and Jet filling station occupying the area between the A1101 Mildenhall Road and A1065 Brandon Road which was redeveloped in late 2015 becoming a Shell filling station with a MacDonalds drive in.

Access to where the buses were parked was from the A1065 near enough exactly where the entrance to the Shell/MacDonalds site now is.

In this view we see Alexander RL bodied Leyland Olympian 712 (K712 ASC) which had been new to Fife Scottish, both companies owned by the Stagecoach Group. The other vehicle was Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol VR 871 (TNH 871R) new to UCOC in June 1977 which carried a special livery for CRC.