A sad ending
We'll start with well a description about a photo I never wanted to take a not one I wanted to write either but I wanted my own bit of history for one of the buses that I remember when it was brand new during the Scottish Commonwealth games of 2014 when they were initially being used as shuttle buses. There are many Flickr photos of that but a bit before my development.
Thankfully, everyone who did happen to be on this bus during the incident that I will mention did manage to get off unharmed, it helped that it was right at the end of the route.
So, the story on the 11th of June 2023 during a normal Sunday on usual service 1 duties there was suddenly a big puff of black smoke that was in the air around the North of Edinburgh. This was because the bus on show Lothian buses 11 had gone on fire a stop away from the Clermiston bus terminus, It looked like it was an engine fault that led the back of the bus to be absolutely destroyed.
A week on and I knew it was at Marine lying in a sorry state, I was well aware that I was photoless of it so wanted to make a quick stop off to see if it was able to be a photo and lucky for me it was sat at the end of the road that I managed to grab a whole profile shot of. So, here will be my shot off 11 as I am pretty sure that it will unfortunately be scrapped as at 9 years old and rather unreliable as was I doubt that a repair and return to service will be likely.
A sad ending
We'll start with well a description about a photo I never wanted to take a not one I wanted to write either but I wanted my own bit of history for one of the buses that I remember when it was brand new during the Scottish Commonwealth games of 2014 when they were initially being used as shuttle buses. There are many Flickr photos of that but a bit before my development.
Thankfully, everyone who did happen to be on this bus during the incident that I will mention did manage to get off unharmed, it helped that it was right at the end of the route.
So, the story on the 11th of June 2023 during a normal Sunday on usual service 1 duties there was suddenly a big puff of black smoke that was in the air around the North of Edinburgh. This was because the bus on show Lothian buses 11 had gone on fire a stop away from the Clermiston bus terminus, It looked like it was an engine fault that led the back of the bus to be absolutely destroyed.
A week on and I knew it was at Marine lying in a sorry state, I was well aware that I was photoless of it so wanted to make a quick stop off to see if it was able to be a photo and lucky for me it was sat at the end of the road that I managed to grab a whole profile shot of. So, here will be my shot off 11 as I am pretty sure that it will unfortunately be scrapped as at 9 years old and rather unreliable as was I doubt that a repair and return to service will be likely.