Ambassador Travel 897 (A101 HNC) at Barton Mills - 28 Apr 1985

Sunday 28 April 1985 – Ambassador Travel 897 (A101 HNC) seen passing Barton Mills at 1010 working first northbound run of the National Express London-Norwich-Great Yarmouth ‘Rapide’ service 599 launched this day. It had departed Victoria Coach Station at 0830. ‘Rapide’ services featured toilet and refreshment facilities the latter served by a steward/stewardess. Ambassador Travel received four Plaxton Paramount 3200 bodied Leyland Tigers other National Bus Company affiliates to work on this improved service. Normally it wouldn’t have been at all safe to venture on to this piece of the A11 which did not have a footpath but today the road was being resurfaced and the traffic was only crawling along as a result.