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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%.
On 22 August 1993, the company ceased trading, having sold the depot and its twelve newest buses to Stagecoach (North West). [4] Leicester CityBus – Leicester City Council sold its bus operations to GRT Group (the former Aberdeen bus operator) in November 1993 and Leicester Citybus now trade as First Leicester.
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]
Lothian Buses had run the services for a while but when it was time to renew said contracts, the council considered Lothian's new tender prices to be too expensive. So then it invited other operators the opportunity to participate instead and was pleasantly surprised to see bids from Arriva using new low floor buses, for a substantially cheaper ...
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 ...
Lothian Buses are also a large operator of Evoras, introducing a fleet of 30 12.9 m (42 ft 4 in) examples into service in January 2021. [34] [10] MCV Evoras have also been delivered for use on car park shuttle bus services at airports across the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Elsewhere in the United Kingdom, municipal bus operator Warrington's Own Buses plans to take delivery of 105 single and double-deck BZLs to replace their entire diesel bus fleet, [16] with the first entering service in July 2024, [17] while Lothian Buses took delivery of the first of 50 double-deck BZLs for service in Edinburgh in September ...