Lothian Buses

Earlier this week, the new Volvo B5TLs were launched on service 26. Like their Volvo B8RLE counterparts in the East Coast Buses fleet, they feature two Next Stop Announcement screens. One is for the Next Stop Announcements, while the other is used for promotional videos, advertising, live Social Media feeds, etc. The two screens on the lower-deck are mounted into the glass behind the stairwell (one above the other), while the two screens on the upper-deck are in the front windscreen, mounted quite nicely side by side.

Today marks the entry into service of the new Volvo B5TLs (in the revised Airlink livery seen on a handful of the current - or now 'old' - batch of Airlinks). The Next Stop Announcements are set up in the same way as the Volvo B5TLs on the 26. I believe the current batch of Airlinks are due to cascade to service 35, replacing the double-deck Scania OmniCitys presently allocated, which will be disposed of.

The new batch of Airlinks feature fabric seating and no tables in the upstairs saloon - pretty basic and the trend of downgrading the service with each 'upgrade' it receives seems to have continued.