Burtons Coaches X196 FOR at Sutton in the Isle, Cambs - 30 April 2006 (557-26)

Sunday 30 April 2006 - Sunday work came into being on my rota when, every third Sunday, I would drive on the Cambridgeshire County Council supported service 19 from Cambridge to Wisbech. I loved driving this route over the flat Fenland landscape. Burtons Coaches X196 FOR, a Caetano Nimbus bodied Dennis Dart, is seen at the boundary sign of Sutton in the Isle. Sutton is close to the city of Ely and the Isle of Ely is one of the higher spots in these parts being around 60 feet above sea level compared with about 3 feet elsewhere. It was close to Sutton that Professor Eric Laithwaite's prototype Maglev linear induction motor powered hovertrain track was constructed during th 1960s and, in 1838, Samuel Birley Rowbotham made observations along a six mile stretch of the Old Bedford River which he claimed to show that the earth was flat leading to the formation of the 'Flat Earth Society' which survived until the 1980s.