Lothian Country's 190, SN13 BFV, on service 276

Lothian Country's 190 SN13 BFV a Voith/Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse Urban 2, on the service 276 to Bathgate, Wester Inch via Houstoun Industrial Estate, Ladywell, St John's Hospital, Craigshill, Livingston the Centre, Bellsquary, Polbeth, West Calder, Addiewell, Loganlea, Blackburn at Ash Grove and Bathgate (Blackburn Road, A89, South Bridge Street, North Bridge Street, Menzies Road, Morrisons, Whitburn Road and Leyland Road).

 

190 was new to Lothian Buses in early to mid 2013 along with 176 - 189.

 

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by Lothian Buses so Lothian Country's buses could get fitted with driver protection screens and that service X38 was withdrawn due to low customer usage pre-Covid-19).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 (05/07/2022) Lothian Country have 16 Eclipse 2's in their fleet with 1 currently being used as a trainer vehicle (171) and 15 that operate daily services (176 - 190). Lothian Buses have 8 in their fleet with 4 training vehicles (TB1/167 - TB4/ 170), 2 getting training bus conversions (174 and 175), 1 in storage at the Marine depot (172) and 1 in storage at Longstone (173). East Coast Buses have 5 in their fleet which are all in storage in the Marine depot (10195 - 10199). 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 - MA - LB

173 - SN60 EOF - SW - LS - LB

174 - SN60 EOG - SW - MA - LB

175 - LB60 BUS - FoTF - MA - LB

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

 

UPDATE LOG, Jun22 - Jul22:

171 still remains at Livingston and continues getting used as a non-refurbished training bus.

172 moved from Livingston to Marine and put into storage(?).

173 moved from Marine to Longstone, possibly for MOT reasons.

Work has started on 174 + 175, they are to become training buses, their fleet numbers are subject to change.

10197 - 10199 have entered storage at Marine.

 

Additional notes:

171 - 173 are suspected to follow suite after 174 and 175 and also become training vehicles. However, this has NOT been confirmed!

 

Disclaimer - the information I have provided about the depots and the liveries are correct from Monday 18th July 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 at Pumpherston Turning Circle on Friday the 15th of July 2022.

 

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