'Six Mile Bottom' and 'Cambridge' displayed on Stagecoach 10809 (SN69 WBF) - 1 Sep 2020 (P1070446)

Tuesday 1 September 2020 (0741) – One of a series of photographs to capture the different villages displayed on destination indicator of the morning bus from Stechworth to Cambridge. In addition to ‘Cambridge’ this display also includes ‘Six Mile Bottom'.

Six Mile Bottom lies six miles from Newmarket along a virtually straight road once the A11 trunk route now numbered A1304 since the A11 was upgraded in the early 1970s.

For a number of years there has been a single early morning bus service starting at Stetchworth running to Cambridge with a homeward single journey back to Stetchworth around 1730. From Monday 27 July 2020 the Stetchworth trips became extensions to the Newmarket Road Park and Ride service.

Stagecoach in Cambridge (Cambus) Alexander Dennis (ADL) Enviro400D MMC 10809 (SN66 WBF) had just arrived in Drummer Street on the morning trip. New in January 2017 it was one of the buses that before reaching Cambus had been temporarily assigned to Stagecoach Merseyside (Glenvale) to provide increased capacity during railway engineering works on the Merseyrail Wirral line.