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Very ironic that it's fully-auto - something which Central would never have entertained in its heyday being the final bastion of stick-box buses in SBG, taking manual Leopards until 1979.

We've gone from discussing antisocial behaviour on public transport, to talking crap. I'll get my coat. ;)

Always been the case, even more so since 1986 - if services don't make money then they get stopped.

The public explanation given for the stopping of the circles was that you couldn't turn a circle bus short if it was running late. The real reason was that the then LB management didn't believe in circle routes and by splitting them, revenue could be increased as a journey that took one bus...

A good way to kill time - get on, spend the next two hours and twenty minutes taking in the sights (both good and bad) of the city, then get off where you started from. On Sundays, it took two hours to do the full circle.

New to Borders Buses are Volvo B8/MCV eVoRa 12612/4/5, BU76XPD/F/G. 12615 entered service yesterday (6th October) and the other two followed suit today. Optare Versa 11311, YA13AEN is now with West Coast Motors at Oban. It had last tracked as a Borders Buses vehicle back in July.

I take it that's what's known as a Peace offering. :lol: I'll get my coat.

Lothian going back out to Linlithgow is very unlikely. The EX2 and X38 both died a death and, as others have said, there is already an excellent train service plus the McGill's X38. That particular bus has long since departed.

23 is being broken up for spares at Seafield.

The original 32 started in 1971 - Foot of Leith Walk to Clovenstone. It was extended in 1974, becoming Hay Drive to Hyvots Bank, then again in 1975 to form a full circle. Renumbering to 32/52 was in 1981. In 2002 it was renumbered again, to 32/32A, before being split in 2003 becoming the 18...

A new addition to the ranks, as the service started today. Lothian's 28 (Bellevue to Gilmerton) U-turns at the Bellevue end, using a traffic island to turn round.

Not a good day for Borders Buses yesterday with two failures (both E200MMCs) on the X62. Cancelling services seems to be the default whenever a breakdown happens.

If it's anything like the bus service review which Scottish Borders Council carried out three years ago, it will merely be a box-ticking exercise. Very few, if any, of the proposals put forward in SBC's bus service review (such as a combined 15-minute headway between Galashiels and Melrose)...

Those campaigning to have the hourly LNER service restored at Berwick-upon-Tweed are likely to be disappointed as the current two-hourly service is set to remain.

The same location was well served by buses - albeit green and cream Eastern Scottish ones - until 1973. Turnhouse Road is the former line of the A9 and it was severed between Turnhouse and Boathouse Bridge in that year to make way for the main runway at Edinburgh Airport. It was left to...