Community ties 33
It's great to be back exploring different places for shots and seeing less photographed parts of the Edinburgh bus network. The weather though has yet to fully bloom into full on spring sunshine as it has been rather cold and unseasonal.
Now that I am more or less fully back in action I have been able to try some different shots and the village of Costorphine is somewhere that I have completely missed shots of. Its part of Edinburgh that is steeped in history, just look at the pub located down the road that has been around for a couple of centuries I believe. It is often missed as I don't used it for much thorough fair and the service 1 is not one of my more frequent rides especially the West Side of the route.
Time to talk about this set of buses. Originally from a batch of 50 that was split in delivery from about a 21 month period from March 2013- December 2014 to replace the old Darts. This time it is Lothian Buses 33 which is the 41st of the 50 that I have photographed being one of the later arrivals in December 2014 which makes it 10 years old at the end of the year.
However, last year we did lose a bus as on the 11th of June bus 11 working 1 duties as well went in a big bloom of smoke at Clermiston and was completely written off, see here flic.kr/p/2oKhp6D.
As previously stated, I am almost getting through this batch as this is the 41st meaning there are only 9 more to collect and possibly a few swap arounds. So, here we see Lothian Buses 33 on a service 1 to Seafield, a termini it was extended to in the heart of the pandemic back in 2020 as the 12 got cut and still making sure as many areas as possible were covered with as little network possible. It can be seen in Costorphine Village, pictured behind is Costorphine Parish Church which looks very stylish and old having been part of the community for a long time.
Community ties 33
It's great to be back exploring different places for shots and seeing less photographed parts of the Edinburgh bus network. The weather though has yet to fully bloom into full on spring sunshine as it has been rather cold and unseasonal.
Now that I am more or less fully back in action I have been able to try some different shots and the village of Costorphine is somewhere that I have completely missed shots of. Its part of Edinburgh that is steeped in history, just look at the pub located down the road that has been around for a couple of centuries I believe. It is often missed as I don't used it for much thorough fair and the service 1 is not one of my more frequent rides especially the West Side of the route.
Time to talk about this set of buses. Originally from a batch of 50 that was split in delivery from about a 21 month period from March 2013- December 2014 to replace the old Darts. This time it is Lothian Buses 33 which is the 41st of the 50 that I have photographed being one of the later arrivals in December 2014 which makes it 10 years old at the end of the year.
However, last year we did lose a bus as on the 11th of June bus 11 working 1 duties as well went in a big bloom of smoke at Clermiston and was completely written off, see here flic.kr/p/2oKhp6D.
As previously stated, I am almost getting through this batch as this is the 41st meaning there are only 9 more to collect and possibly a few swap arounds. So, here we see Lothian Buses 33 on a service 1 to Seafield, a termini it was extended to in the heart of the pandemic back in 2020 as the 12 got cut and still making sure as many areas as possible were covered with as little network possible. It can be seen in Costorphine Village, pictured behind is Costorphine Parish Church which looks very stylish and old having been part of the community for a long time.