Whippet Coaches (National Express contractor) NX32 (BV67 JZO) at Barton Mills - 26 Aug 2019 (P1040147)

Bank Holiday Monday 26 August 2019 (1226) – On the right in this view of Newmarket Road, Barton Mills is the site once occupied by Sandford’s Garden Centre. The section of road was once the main A11 road linking Newmarket and Fiveways, Barton Mills and a section of road that was used by numerous National Express services in the past.

When the dual carriageway was opened (out of shot to the left) this section of road continued to serve as a local relatively quiet road until traffic queues form on the dual carriageway and then it becomes a rat run for traffic to beat the queues (and sometimes the traffic also has to queue as here!).

In the queuing traffic is Whippet Coaches NX32 (BV67 JZO), a Caetano Levante bodied Scania K410 new in January 2018, was working the 0830 National Express service 727 running a little late – it was due at Mildenhall at 1215.

Over the years I have taken a number of photographs around this spot but in more recent years the opportunities have been less. This is one from 1985 before the dual carriageway was opened: www.ipernity.com/doc/davidslater-spoddendale/41385644/in/album/896958

(In April 2021 this vehicle received Flixbus livery when Whippet took on a number of contracts for that company).