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926 and 927 are still in the old swoop livery and rather shabby looking.

There are currently 11 buses in City Sightseeing livery and 6 in Majestic Tour livery, plus the test bus 232 in The 3 Bridges livery. That adds up to 18 buses.

Any coach operator can use the facilities at Central through the main part of the day, for a small charge.

It was difficult to plan a new route in time for relocating the terminus to Waterloo Place so it was decided to follow the sane route as City Sightseeing as a short term solution. There has now been a rethink and a variation through the New Town has been planned.

The Edinburgh tour is doing the New Town again from 2 April.

Round the roundabout outside St Andrew’s House.

X50 was the original Britannia service from Waverley Bridge using the white Olympian 433. There was previously a service 99 that ran from Waverley to Harry Ramsden’s fish restaurant at Newhaven.

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.

Not all of the new E400s have AVL (trackers) fitted. Therefore can’t be tracked.

So where in St Andrew Square would you have the terminus? It’s already full up with tour buses and Airlink.

It’s a demonstrator. Lothian is going to use it on trials for a few days.

I’ve seen a few of them finding it tight getting round the roundabout at Regent Road.

Edinburgh Tour, City Sightseeing, and Bright Bus Tour all make that turn.

If the manual ramps become dislodged the bus loses transmission and has to stop for the ramp to be locked back into place. Bit inconvenient if it happens in the middle of a junction.

Bright Bus has stopped running their A2 Britannia Tour. I don’t know if this is an end of season finish or if it’s permanent.