Ahh okay, I assumed they all had them from new.
As far as I'm aware none of the 600s do, but they still track using the ticket machine.
There's a new AVL system in the works, since the current one is massively outdated and the company stopped making them years ago (apart from special orders for Lothian).
Some are back at Central. We can't say they are withdrawn yet.
One of 201-215’s tracker went down to Marine the other day during the small hours, could well be an actual move.
Sadly, the people in Fauldhouse showed where their loyalties lay when LCB went there with the X17 and then subsequently the 281. They would allow them to go by and get the 26. We were carrying fresh air in and out of Fauldhouse.
There isn't much point, demand is limited and it's easy enough to get a bus to Ratho Station and connect with the 63. Keep in mind also that the Stagecoach X51 provides a direct link from Livingston to Ferrymuir Retail Park and the stops on the A9000 just before the Forth Road Bridge. For much of South Queensferry either of these stops is within manageable walking distance.
I don't think the 275 will ever be extended back to The Gyle as the X18 basically covers it by serving Maybury and the 275 didn't have very high passenger numbers to begin with.
For me I’d like to see a link to the Airport restored. Livingston/Broxburn looks to be the one of the few areas you can easily access from the Airport that doesn’t have a direct link anymore. Which route would be best I’m not so sure, would probably only need to be hourly for now with a view to go half hourly when travel is near what it was.
I'd suggest the primary reason the 7 doesn't run all day is lack of demand out to South Queensferry outside peak hours.
Probably was planned as a new training livery that never happened. In the same style that the renumbered open tops 216-219 had.
It was planned to be a mobile ticket office/promotional vehicle to replace the Marshall-bodied Dart but never completed. So sold in unfinished condition.
Makes sense. Forgot that this stuck around longer than the others did.
PM0000002/570 LOTHIAN BUSES LIMITED, 55 ANNANDALE STREET, EDINBURGH, EH7 4AZ
Looks like the Three Bridges Tour is no more, then.
Why?
I think it was, now you've mentioned it.
The old page for it when it last ran, in 2019 I presume, is here: https://www.lothianbuses.com/timetables/cruiselink-x99/
Cruiselink X99
Taking cruise visitors from Queensferry to the heart of Edinburgh
Was expecting this one. Got told a few weeks back it was returning. Don’t think it will be too long before the X50 does too.
What was the X50?
I want to say the Cruiselinks were majority run by Central with a small number of extra buses from Longstone and Marine but if I’m honest I’m not 100% confident on that at all. It may even be that Central ran the whole thing but borrowed other depots buses for a few days at a time, as these services only run when they need to.