18 Hybrid
I love bus photos in full frontal position and this looks like a large pussy cat sitting at the Clovenstone terminus, near to Wester Hailes. Volvo 7900 Hybrid number 18 (BT`4 DKF) is resting on Service 30.
Following the fifteen Enviro 400 Hybrids, new in 2011, Lothian went on to order two batches of single decker hybrids, in the same Winter Gold / Radiance Red livery combination. Numbers 1-10 and then 11-50 came along in 2013/14. For a while it looked like all hybrid buses would wear that livery, but then we took a different turn altogether and embraced the new Fleet of the Future, returning to a newer design of the more Edinburgh tradition of madder red and white. Perhaps double decker hybrids 551 to 594 would also have worn the metallic colours had things been different.
If you'd like to see all of the single decker hybrid fleet when new (1-50) click here for each one in numerical order:
www.flickr.com/photos/stuart_montgomery/albums/7215763327...
18 Hybrid
I love bus photos in full frontal position and this looks like a large pussy cat sitting at the Clovenstone terminus, near to Wester Hailes. Volvo 7900 Hybrid number 18 (BT`4 DKF) is resting on Service 30.
Following the fifteen Enviro 400 Hybrids, new in 2011, Lothian went on to order two batches of single decker hybrids, in the same Winter Gold / Radiance Red livery combination. Numbers 1-10 and then 11-50 came along in 2013/14. For a while it looked like all hybrid buses would wear that livery, but then we took a different turn altogether and embraced the new Fleet of the Future, returning to a newer design of the more Edinburgh tradition of madder red and white. Perhaps double decker hybrids 551 to 594 would also have worn the metallic colours had things been different.
If you'd like to see all of the single decker hybrid fleet when new (1-50) click here for each one in numerical order:
www.flickr.com/photos/stuart_montgomery/albums/7215763327...