My regular readers will know that from time to time, I welcome ‘guest’ photographers onto my blog.
The purpose is to give you, my readers something that is a bit different from my usual fare which is predominantly from North Yorkshire down to the South Coast of England and Wales.
Scottish operators have appeared in my blog previously but not for a couple of years
My latest ‘guest’ is ‘Stuart Montgomery’ who’ is one of ‘Lothian Buses’ voluntary photographers.
A study of his ‘flickr’ content at,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuart_montgomery/albums
will reveal his extensive collection of high quality images.
It is of course with his permission that I reproduce just a few of them here and I thank him for that.
I also thank Stuart for his substantial contribution to the the notes accompanying each image.
His knowledge of Edinburgh was invaluable.
SG68 LCA ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 1063, ‘Lothiancity’. Volvo B8L / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400XLB
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
This image was captured during a tour of the Falkirk works of ‘Alexander Dennis Ltd’.
in November 2018.
SA15 VUB ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 551 ‘poppy scotland’. Volvo B5LH Hybrid / Wright Gemini 3/1
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
‘Lothian Buses’, like many operators across the UK have produced a special livery to comemmorate the centenary of the armistice in the First World War signed on November 11th. 1918.
SA15 VUB ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 551 ‘poppy scotland’. Volvo B5LH Hybrid / Wright Gemini 3/2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
FSC 182 ‘Edinburgh Corporation Transport’ No. 135. Daimler CVG6 / Metropolitan Cammell Carriage & Wagon Co. on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
This image was taken in front of the former Scotsman building during 'Lothian's Vintage Running Day’ in September 2018.
New in May 1949 numbered G135.
W572 RSG ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 572 Dennis Trident / Plaxton President
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Wearing the ‘Harlequin’ livery introduced at the time when low floor easy access buses were new in service.
This enabled intending passengers to distinguish at a distance between low floor and existing step entrance buses in the fleet.
This image was taken at Liberton during 'Lothian's Vintage Running Day’ in September 2018.
LXZ 5390 ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 1008. Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini 2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
One of 50 Euro 5 engined buses bought from London based operators to replace earlier Euro 3 engined vehicles.
This image was taken at Crewe Toll when new to Edinburgh in Spring 2018.
New as BF60 UUR to ‘CentreWest’ as its No. VN37904.
GSC 667X ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 667. Leyland Olympian ONTL11/1R / Alexander RL
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
This image was taken at Newhaven which is the terminus for service 7 during 'Lothian's Vintage Running Day’ in September 2018.
The Leyland Olympian is in the company of ASC 665B an ‘Edinburgh Corporation Transport’ Leyland PD3 / Alexander numbered 665.
LXZ 5423 ‘Lothian Country’ No 1037. Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini 2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
One of 50 Euro 5 engined buses bought from London based operators to replace earlier Euro 3 engined vehicles.
This image was taken beneath the famous monuments at Calton Hill.
New as BF60 VJJ to ‘CentreWest’ as its No. VN37924.
SK67 FLG ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 288. Wright StreetAir EV / Wright
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Just six of these buses are in the fleet and this one was captured in Holyrood Park.
SG68 LBU ‘EastCoastbuses’ No. 20007 . Volvo B5TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini 3
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Another image taken beneath the famous monuments at Calton Hill.
