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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%.
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 ...
The services – along with Great Yarmouth routes of sister company Eastern Counties – were initially operated under the Blue Bus moniker. Grimsby-Cleethorpes Transport – The 111-vehicle bus operation of the then boroughs of Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes was sold to Stagecoach in November 1993.
Operates local bus services throughout Edinburgh as well as longer distance bus routes to the surrounding areas (branded as East Coast Buses for services to the east of Edinburgh and Lothian Country Buses for services to the west of Edinburgh) 721 buses and 27 trams (December 2012) [2] None Cogenhoe & Whiston Parish Council
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.
This is a list of the world's bus operating companies listed by country, with countries placed alphabetically by continent and country. It includes operators of municipal buses, and intercity buses. Wherever possible, each country's bus operating companies are divided by the nature of their operations. Operations may be logically divided by ...
In July 1944 the ship was recommissioned as HMS Lothian and was sent to be part of the U.S. 7th Fleet as part of Force X. Leaving the Clyde on 3 August 1944, the Lothian sailed for New York and then down to the Panama Canal. The ship's complement had swelled to 750 (instead of the normal 450) under the command of Rear Admiral Arthur George ...