Lothian Country's 190, SN13 BFV, on service 275

Lothian Country's 190 SN13 BFV, a Voith/Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse Urban 2, on service 275 to Broxburn via Uphall Station and Uphall.

 

The photo was taken at Pumpherston Turning Circle on Saturday the 4th of December 2021.

 

190 was new to Lothian Buses in early to mid 2013 along with 176 - 189. In 2017, 186 - 190 were all painted into Skylink livery for the launch of service Skylink200, 176 - 185 remained doing City work. 186 - 189 were subsequently repainted into Lothian Buses livery, 190 was sent to East Coast Buses for a short while before returning to Lothian Buses in 2019.

 

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by Lothian Buses so Lothian Country's buses could get fitted with driver protection screens and that service X38 was withdrawn due to low customer usage pre-Covid-19).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.

 

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