Coaches in Drummer Street bus station, Cambridge – 6 Apr 1985 (15-89)

Easter Saturday 6 April 1985 (1325) – A busy time at Drummer Street bus station in Cambridge.

On the right is Abingdon Coaches KUW 520P, a Plaxton Supreme bodied AEC Reliance new to National Travel (South East) in April 1976. Abingdon Coaches was a subsidiary of Percivals of Oxford and Percivals was a joint operator on the Bristol-Oxford-Cambridge-East Anglia service 747 worked with Premier Travel Services and National Express. From time to time coaches from the Abingdon Coaches subsidiary would appear on the service. It was working the 0920 Oxford-Great Yarmouth service which was running a little late. It should have departed at 1245.

Centre is Ambassador Travel LT899 (A899 KAH), a Plaxton Parmount 3200 bodied Leyland Tiger new in November 1983, bound for London on service 098.

On the left is Yardley’s of Birmingham UTN 953Y, a Plaxton Parmount 3500 bodied Leyland Tiger which had been new to Moor-Dale of Newcastle in April 1983. Yardley’s regularly hired to National Express and later became a contractor on various services so possibly it was on a Birmingham service duplicate.