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The Queen's Drive was built during the reign of Queen Victoria and named after her, so keeps its name though we now have a King. The King's Park/Queen's Park, however, does change its name depending on the gender of the reigning monarch.

J250KWM, a Leyland Lynx built in 1988 but which didn't enter service until October 1991 with Halton as its number 37.

The story I'd heard about these coaches was they'd been built for stock, then stored and weren't uncovered until the dealer's premises were being cleared after its proprietor died.

874 was one of seven JSC-E Atlanteans converted from buses to coaches in 1976-77; the crest is the Lothian Regional Council one. The upgraded Atlanteans were replaced by new Atlantean coaches 660-665 in late-1981.

Edinburgh had a mass renaming in the late 1960s to eliminate duplicated street names brought about by the mergers with Portobello in 1896 and Leith in 1920.

And also, one of the reasons why the Metropolitan counties were abolished. Taxpayers in these areas were paying through the nose to subsidise artificially cheap bus and rail fares. Those in Sunderland had an added grievance, paying towards a Metro system which at the time only served Tyneside.

No Christnas Day buses have run in Midlothian since 2005. I remember a poster on the old SEScotbus Yahoo group having a go at First for running no services there on December 25th. It was pointed out to him that Midlothian Council wouldn't fund them and that, in any case, bus drivers were...

The heat is slowly being turned up...

Much rarer than I thought. As the saying goes, every day is a school day. :)

Two body/chassis combinations come to mind. Seddon Pennnine 7/Alexander M-type. Six built: Eastern Scottish XS747-752 (MSF747-752P) which were also the final M-types. Leyland Tiger/Alexander T-type. Sixteen built: Central SMT LT1-5 (FGG601-605X), Eastern Scottish ZH311-316 (PSF311-316Y) and...

Two new E200MMCs in allover white, SK24XPO/P, have arrived at Berwick presumably for the 418 contract. Fleetnumbers are not yet known.

The 20 between Aldershot and Guildford had been branded as the Kite for a few years and when new route-branded ADL E200s were delivered for the service in early-2015, the opportunity was taken to relaunch it as the Kite. The E200s were then transferred to Peasmarsh a few years later for the...

The single-deck East Lancs-bodied Dominators were total abominations, even by East Lancs' own standards. The phrase "like the back end of a bus" was never more apt! 1712918140 There was also one Marshall Camair 80 body on a single-deck Ailsa chassis, Strathclyde AS1 (NHS782Y). It was built to...

An article that's been run and then deleted tells you all that you need to know about the standard of journalism these days - running a story that's based on assumptions without any facts. Journalists need to remember that two plus two does not equal five, which is exactly what's happened here.

Likewise, the bodies on the DMS class can be disqualified on several grounds - an adaptation of an existing body style for London, the body shape was the same regardless of bodybuilder, and there were only minor detail differences between the MCW and Park Royal versions. I think, to stop this...