Edinburgh Corporation Tramways formerly served the City of Edinburgh, Scotland. The city used four-wheeled double-decked trams painted dark red and white – a livery still used by Lothian Buses and the post-2014 Edinburgh Trams.
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Princes Street buses
Company: Lothian Buses Fleetnumber: TB315 Registration: E315MSG Chassis: Leyland Olympian Bodywork: Alexander RH Location of Photo: Annandale Street, Edinburgh Previous Registrations: N/A New to: Lothian Buses (Fleetno: 315) Other Notes: N/A
Precios y consejos para moverte por Edimburgo en transporte público. Autobuses de Lothian Buses y tranvías de Edinburgh Trams.
Edinburgh 25-08-1982. Three Eastern Scottish buses.
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D Coaches, Morriston (WG) NSF 750 Leyland PD2/20 / Metro-Cammell H33/29R -/56 ex Lothian (LO) 750 2/76; originally Edinburgh (MN) 750 Wychtree Street Garage 8/80 (this could almost be a scene from the Ediburgh workshop!)
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PWS 998 an Alexander bodied Leyland Titan PD3/2 was photographed at Avro Coaches yard in Corringham during May 1984. Exhibited at the 1957 Scottish Show I understand it underwent trials with Central SMT and Western SMT before entering normal service with Edinburgh Corporation. Just visible behind in this photograph is SWS 263 another former Edinburgh PD3.
One of the last Edinburgh tram routes to be withdrawn was service 11, and perhaps the public were astonished to find that many of the replacing buses were older than the scrapped trams! Edinburgh Corporation 110, a 1947 Daimler with 56 seat NCME bodywork is seen on Princes Street working service 11 in the weeks after the last tram passed. It is one of a fleet of elderly 'utility' type buses based at McDonald Road prior to the Leith depot conversion to buses. This an open air depot and whilst a heating system operated I'd imagine the starting handle facility would come in handy on cold winter mornings! Soon more 'modern' Daimlers ( of 1949) took over this popular cross city route, between Fairmilehead and Newhaven, and 110 had retired from service by 1960.
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Beneath the crag of the castle rock en-route to the Doors Open Day event at Lothian Buses Central Garage
D Coaches, Morriston (WG) ASC 692B Leyland PD3/6 / Alexander H41/29F -/64 ex Lothian (LO) 692 1/77; originally Edinburgh (MN) 692 Wychtree Street Garage 8/80
D Coaches, Morriston (WG) LFS 500 Leyland PD2/20 / Metro-Cammell H33/29R -/54 ex Lothian (LO) 500 9/76; originally Edinburgh (MN) 500 Wychtree Street Garage 8/80
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Another ex-pat, and one I had met before, was Appleby's PSC 230G, former Edinburgh Corporation Transport 230, a Duple-bodied Bedford VAL
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In 1959 Edinburgh Corporation looked into the proverbial crystal ball and no doubt saw buses running without a rear door ! However in reality they discovered that along the A9 in Camelon, Walter Alexander was busily building front entrance double deckers on Leyland PD3/3 chassis to the new daring 30 feet length - enough to tempt Edinburgh Councillors to buy four. This is 263, bearing the Edinburgh registration SWS, and taken out a short distance from Central garage to be pictured in London Street, where Edinburghers could view 'the bus of the future' well nearly, as it took over 5 years for other similar buses to arrive! 263 had 72 seats and synchromesh gearbox but a rather odd straight rear elevation which looked out of place when later 'standard' front entrance Titans arrived. Perhaps Alexanders should have been told to fit a permanent destination screen as 263 and its compatriots seldom strayed from the inner city circle - route 19. By 1971 the Altantean invasion first forced 263 to become 996 and finally rendered it 'surplus to requirements'. In 1974 it was sold to Highland Omnibuses in Inverness for further service.
