Whippet Coaches (National Express contractor) NX32 (BV67 JZO) at Barton Mills - 26 Aug 2019 (P1040150)

Saturday 24 August 2019 (1227) – The house in this photograph was originally the Dog and Partridge Inn and the chimney pots on the right (which are not a sophisticated aircon unit of the coach!) are on the house that lies within the old Sandford’s Garden Centre site on Newmarket Road, Barton Mills. The road across the front of both buildings 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 behind the camera) 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!).

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.

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

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

and one from 1991 of a coach on a refreshment break there:
www.ipernity.com/doc/davidslater-spoddendale/44338932