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Former Lothian Buses 121, a preserved Bedford YRT with Alexander AY bodywork. Lothian Buses Ltd are a major bus company operating in Edinburgh. A number of the vehicles used by Lothian Buses and its predecessors have been preserved. Several of them appear at rallies and events with some travelling around the country.
Lothian Buses is a major bus operator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. [2] It is the largest municipal bus company in the United Kingdom: [3] the City of Edinburgh Council (through Transport for Edinburgh) owns 91%, Midlothian Council 5%, East Lothian Council 3% and West Lothian Council 1%.
The tram mockup shown in 2009 was decorated with the red and gold "harlequin" design that was introduced on Lothian Buses in the 2000s. Following the announcement of a rebranding of the bus fleet in April 2010, Lothian Buses reintroduced their traditional madder and white livery, and the tram livery was updated to a matching colour scheme. [16]
Lothian Buses took delivery of 98 Volvo B5TLs with Enviro400 MMC bodies between 2021 and 2022, so far being the only operator to order Enviro400 MMCs built onto a conventional diesel 2-axle Volvo chassis. [101] [102]
In 1926, the bus fleet moved into Central Depot on Annandale Street, a former Industrial Exhibition hall, which is still Lothian Buses' main depot today. [14] Hoping for economies of scale, originally all of the Corporation's road transport fleet (including such vehicles as fire tenders and waste collection vehicles) were to be garaged in this ...
It operated buses in much of central Scotland. Aside from its bus operations, by 1930 SMT had dealerships in Edinburgh selling cars and trucks at 89 Haymarket Terrace and 71 Lothian Road. It also operated an air taxi service using a De Havilland Fox Moth between 18 July and 31 October 1932. For many years it owned Dryburgh Abbey Hotel. [2]
List of Lothian Buses preserved vehicles; Lothian Buses; Lowland Scottish; N. North Berwick Line; T. Tranent to Cockenzie Waggonway This page was last edited on 19 ...
Buses on Princes Street, one of the main thoroughfares in Edinburgh. Map of tram and commuter rail services in Edinburgh. Edinburgh is a major transport hub in east central Scotland and is at the centre of a multi-modal transport network with road, rail and air communications connecting the city with the rest of Scotland and internationally.