Lothian Country's 180, SN13 BEY, on service 275

Lothian Country's 180 SN13 BEY, a Voith/ Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse Urban 2, on service 275 to Bathgate via Uphall Station, Pumpherston, Houstoun Industrial Estate, Ladywell, St John's Hospital, Howden, Livingston the Centre, Livingston Village, Seafield, Blackburn and the Pyramids Vaccination Centre.

 

As of the date this was uploaded, Monday the 20th of June 2022, the 275 has since been withdrawn and was withdrawn on Sunday the 5th of June 2022. The new service 276 acts like a partial replacement for the 275 which has been rerouted to serve the following areas: Pumpherston and Ladywell, Ash Grove in Blackburn and some of the Wester Inch estate in Bathgate.

 

180 was new to Lothian Buses in early to mid 2013 along with 176 - 179 and 181 - 190.

 

2016 seen 190 get repainted and transferred to East Coast Buses with the fleet number being altered with a 10××× prefix added making 190 become 10190.

 

In 2017, 186 - 189, with 190 returning back to Lothain Buses, were all painted into Skylink livery for the launch of service Skylink200, 176 - 185 remained doing City work. 186 - 190 were subsequently repainted into Lothian Buses livery later on in the year once the Gemini 2 B5LH's entered service and the service Skylink200 was upgraded to double decker capacity.

 

In March 2021 186 and 187 were transferred to Lothian Country, in April 2021 188 and 190 were transferred to Lothian Country then finally 189 in May 2021.

 

in November 2019 176 - 185 were transferred to Lothian Country for use on Lothian Country's (new at the time) service X38 between Linlithgow and Edinburgh, 177 - 180 and 182 were branded for service X38 (176 never received the branding but had Lothian Country logos, 181 was never branded for service X38 since it suffered an engine fire and was off service for 2 years)

 

In September 2020 176 - 180 and 182 - 185 returned to service and were all debranded from service X38 ( this was both a result of the Coronavirus lockdown with all services ran with double decker buses loaned by Lothian Buses so Lothian Country's buses could get fitted with driver protection screens and that service X38 was withdrawn due to low customer usage pre-Covid-19).

 

In November 2021 181 re-entered service after its engine fire and is now wearing the new shared livery between Lothian Country and East Coast Buses.

 

As of the date this was uploaded (04/06/2022) Lothian Country have 20 Eclipse 2's in their fleet with 2 currently being used as trainers (171 and 172) 3 in reserve, 2 at Lothian Buses Seafield works (174 and 175) and 1 at Longstone (173). East Coast Buses 10195 - 10199 are currently in reserve at Marine. There are 15 Eclipses that operate day to day service (being 176 - 190). All together Lothian Buses has 29 Eclipse 2's across their fleets including 4 training buses (TB1 - TB4), 20 Lothian Country Buses and 5 East Coast Buses.

 

This is a list of all Eclipse 2's across the Lothian Buses fleets including liveries and depots:

Fleet no. - Reg - Livery - Depot - Company

TB1/ 167 - SN58 BYU - ST - LS - LB

TB2/ 168 - SN58 BYV - SW - LS - LB

TB3/ 169 - SN58 BYW - FoTF - LS - LB

TB4/ 170 - SN58 BYX - FoTF - LS - LB

171 - SN60 EOD - SW - LV - LCB

172 - SN60 EOE - SW - LV - LCB

173 - SN60 EOF - SW - MA - LCB

174 - SN60 EOG - SW - MA - LCB

175 - LB60 BUS - FoTF - MA - LCB

176 - SN13 BDZ - LC - LV - LCB

177 - SN13 BEJ - LC - LV - LCB

178 - SN13 BEO - LC - LV - LCB

179 - SN13 BEU - LC - LV - LCB

180 - SN13 BEY - LC - LV - LCB

181 - SN13 BFA - LC - LV - LCB

182 - SN13 BFE - LC - LV - LCB

183 - SN13 BFF - LC - LV - LCB

184 - SN13 BFJ - LC - LV - LCB

185 - SN13 BFK - LC - LV - LCB

186 - SN13 BFL - FoTF - LV - LCB

187 - SN13 BFM - FoTF - LV - LCB

188 - SN13 BFO - FoTF - LV - LCB

189 - SN13 BFP - FoTF - LV - LCB

190 - SN13 BFV - FoTF - LV - LCB

10195 - SN62 BNY - ECB - MA - ECB

10196 - SN62 BPV - ECB - MA - ECB

10197 - SN62 BTF - ECB - MA - ECB

10198 - SN62 BUF - ECB - MA - ECB

10199 - LB62 BUS - ECB - MA - ECB

 

Codes:

Liveries - ST = Horizontal Stripes, SW = Swoops, FoTF = Fleet of The Future, LC = Lothian Country, ECB = East Coast Buses

 

Depots - CE = Central, MA = Marine, LS = Longstone, LV = Livingston, MU = Musselburgh

 

Companies - LB = Lothian Buses, LCB = Lothian Country Buses, ECB = East Coast Buses

 

Disclaimer - the information I have provided about the depots and the liveries are correct from Monday 20th June 2022 (the date of upload), I won't be editing this specific description if there are any changes. I will only update this list (if there are any changes) if I post another photo of a Eclipse 2 which I will post the most up to date information on there!

 

This photo was taken on Wednesday the 9th of March 2022 at Uphall, Stankards Road.

 

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