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Idle at Dunbar
As services expanded Stark's moved from Dunbar High Street to premises and a yard nearby in Countess Crescent. Seen inside the depot are AEC Reliances B920S and B102S
they surround Bristol FS6G Lodekka AA852A and in background a Leyland Tiger Cub. Note the Reliances were originally SMT/Eastern Scottish vehicles turned out in Stark's colours with S the garage code for vehicles at Dunbar and North Berwick, A the code for Edinburgh.
The scene illustrates a continuing problem for Lothian the 'new' operators to Dunbar in that SMT/Eastern Scottish could use double decks to the town as their fleet was 'lowbridge' so able to pass under the railway bridge at East Linton. This meant double decks were used on the Edinburgh service with two of the Edinburgh fleet 'outstationed' here overnight but worked by local crews, in particular at weekends when the last journeys were busy and normally duplicated as far as Haddington. In later years 75 seat buses enabled a guarantee of a seat for passengers boarding at intermediate stops such as Haddington where ironically Lothian have cut service X6 to a few journeys.
Following deregulation Lowland and First Bus sold the Dunbar depot and the site is now a supermarket - similar to what happened to the old Peebles depot.
Idle at Dunbar
As services expanded Stark's moved from Dunbar High Street to premises and a yard nearby in Countess Crescent. Seen inside the depot are AEC Reliances B920S and B102S
they surround Bristol FS6G Lodekka AA852A and in background a Leyland Tiger Cub. Note the Reliances were originally SMT/Eastern Scottish vehicles turned out in Stark's colours with S the garage code for vehicles at Dunbar and North Berwick, A the code for Edinburgh.
The scene illustrates a continuing problem for Lothian the 'new' operators to Dunbar in that SMT/Eastern Scottish could use double decks to the town as their fleet was 'lowbridge' so able to pass under the railway bridge at East Linton. This meant double decks were used on the Edinburgh service with two of the Edinburgh fleet 'outstationed' here overnight but worked by local crews, in particular at weekends when the last journeys were busy and normally duplicated as far as Haddington. In later years 75 seat buses enabled a guarantee of a seat for passengers boarding at intermediate stops such as Haddington where ironically Lothian have cut service X6 to a few journeys.
Following deregulation Lowland and First Bus sold the Dunbar depot and the site is now a supermarket - similar to what happened to the old Peebles depot.