OmniCity999
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As far as i understand, we are in a position where every bus we have is needed.I’m just wondering but I have thought about 826-828 going to marine with no depot codes and they could be getting withdrawn, I have a few reasons for wondering this.
They are the oldest double deckers in the fleet.
They have no depot codes
Marine is usually where buses go for their last months then get withdrawn.(this isn’t with all buses)
They will be sticking around for the time being.
Depot odes are being removed company wide as its totally unessential.
While it is true old stock heads to Marine immediately before sale, it is usually the case that it is removed from service before so and stored there.
We are currently conducting a fleet wide shuffle and clear up with regards to appearance, so expect a few interesting changes.
In my opinion it would be great if they kept the website as is but have the separate ones for LCB and ECB aswell so lothianbuses.com being the hub and lothiancountry.co.uk and eastcoastbuses.co.uk being easier more localised for people travelling in WL and/or EL only.
But correct me if im wrong but theur separate websites cost mor money i believe.
The company is moving towards a fully integrated service. With talk of fare changes, branding changes and fleet movements, as mentioned above. Expect many changes.I know East Coast Buses will have one as they posted on Twitter earlier about it, but like everything this year it will probably all be in the one booklet rather than something separate!
once this pandemic is over I can’t imagine LCB and ECB will be going back to their own separate websites to seperate them from the Lothian brand, i think it works better having all the services in one source, makes it feel more like a wide network that way!
New buses are due late next year, by that point we should be in a more long term fleet, branding and fares structure.