On board S.U.T. Limited A339 YDT in Newmarket - 11 Feb 1989 (81-11)

Saturday 11 February 1989 (1340) – On board S.U.T. of Sheffield A339 YDT in Newmarket High Street which was working the 1010 National Express service 351 from Lowestoft to Manchester - running about 25 minutes late.

Between Lowestoft and Cambridge this departure slotted into the two hourly frequency schedule mainly covered by service 747. This particular timing was always popular with riders bound for Newmarket and Cambridge for the afternoon and there had been quite a crowd of waiting passengers when I boarded in Mildenhall.

The initials S.U.T. were derived from the well respected name of Sheffield United Tours, a company which was absorbed into National Travel (East). The post privatisation owners used names like N.T.E and S.U.T.

The coach is a Jonckheere Jubilee bodied Volvo B10M registered in May 1984, one of ten such coaches (A332-341 YDT) new to National Travel (East) in the Spring of that year delivered in a contract livery for tour operator Intasun.