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Those are dated 25 Feb 2020. Anything new would be under East Coast Buses LTD.

Yes 191-193 would stay, but there is always at least one that is on long absence. For a while that was 193, now it's 192 which has been gone nearly two months. That's what I mean by relief.

I think 195/6 will both stay as they are. To remove 196 feels like a short term aim based on present peak vehicle requirements without much thought for the future. Even if 195 or 196 is surplus for some time, that extra vehicle would well be suitable relief for the lesser reliable 191-193. I...

The repaint plan (visible at Seafield during the tour) indicated 461-463 and 1051-1062 will all be going through for madder paint indeed. It means, at least for now, no growth can be expected on either side. I am disappointed by that but hope it changes later on.

The most up to date on the B8RLEs are that they are a 15/5 split all at 12.9m. 15 for Musselburgh and 5 for Longstone. B8Ls are 17 East Coast buses, then approx 18 Airlink, 25 Lothian Country?

I reckon no AI involved, just an effort to fill up the time they've got. It's ran by West Coast Motors.

I think that was inevitable with the 903 being added to the corridor.

All of 1-20 that weren't withdrawn due to fire damage. Three are in reserve, 34, 35 and 49. There is a chance bus 31 (which has just returned) will replace another, such as 21, but it's not yet clear if this will or has happened.

Ideally that and 1051-1062 would become 519-530. I doubt it'll happen though. 1790458728 An image from Noah Nicholson on Flickr which shows one of the retrimmed seats: https://www.flickr.com/photos/146661030@N04/55551468347/in/photostream/

51 was on display at the tour, the majority of seats were removed. You would have thought they would swap them to the regular highback seating but that's not the case, they will be keeping the existing ones but with the regular Lothian fabric instead. I can only assume the fact they've taken out...

It looks on track to be majority fleet renewal. However there is always room, as has happened previously, to keep buses longer and sell them at a later time. The eVoRa's are likely replacing most of the remaining 7900s. The order, as far as I am aware, consists of 15 new buses for East Coast...

I've noticed this as well. Indeed there was enough of them recently that I had to stand because there were no seats left.

Probably a resource or timetabling limitation, but one that could be key to whether the service can survive or not. Somewhat reminds me of the former Lothian EX1/2 which terminated at The Exchange which was a big mistake. That aside I am already skeptical about there being demand to preserve the...

I'll assume it relates to the fact Longstone have gone from 44 singles in March to 43 single decks now despite the service increase on the 32. The bus that previously ran the 20 may just be acting as breathing room during the day in case a different single deck elsewhere needs replacing. For a...

The existing stretch seems to have done well - it does have a consistent set of passengers, and the run I was on earlier was particularly above average with each seat pair taken up by at least one passenger, some of which fully taken, and a few people choosing to stand. A good chunk of us...