Lothian Buses & First Scotland East

[Metroline1511]

RE: Lothian Buses & First Scotland East
I was in the Edinburgh area for Easter and rode some Lothian buses on Good Friday.

I had not spotted that a few Volvo B5TLs had been delivered to East Lothian buses last year with green seats, I think 7 numbered 20001-07.

The seats in 1075 sagged a bit, unfortunately. The refurb of 1015 was excellent with grey panels, wooden floor and red seats.

A triviality I noticed is that in the main, vehicles from the 00s have blue seats (a throwback to Tartan in many cases) and from the 10s red seats. Exceptions are new ECB stock and Airlink route 100 Volvo B5LHs with a distinctive blue moquette.

I think any of the next 38 B8Ls on order not needed for route 100 will indirectly release standard double-decks to convert routes 2 & 49, enabling the oldest mainly 04-reg Eclipses to be withdrawn.