Gallery: Stagecoach East Scotland Dunfermline open day

22/05/2018 WebSupport Bus News, News, P News
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Stagecoach East Scotland marked 100 years of its garage in St Leonards Street, Dunfermline with an open day on Saturday (May 19, 2018), the site having originally been opened as a tram depot in 1918. As well as modern and vintage vehicles on display and to travel on, there was an array of transport related stalls, the opportunity to meet Kingdom FM breakfast presenters and to take a ride through the bus wash. Stagecoach East Scotland has painted three vehicles in retro liveries to highlight the anniversary. One, an Enviro400, is this week’s Big Picture. Another, an Enviro300 painted in W. Alexander & Sons (Fife) livery from the 1960s, made its debut at the open day.

Gallery

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  • Looking smart in 1960s W. Alexander & Sons (Fife) livery, a preserved Alexander-bodied Leyland Tiger Cub that was new in 1961. IAIN SMART
  • A rear view of the W. Alexander & Sons (Fife) liveried Enviro300 while it was operating on the free shuttle service that linked Dunfermline’s bus station with the garage. IAIN SMART
  • The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum provided this bus presented in Perth ‘City Service’ red. It was never operated by Alexander, but is a hybrid built by the museum using a 1943 ex Plymouth City Transport Guy Arab II matched with a 1946 Duple body from a former Northampton Transport Daimler. IAIN SMART
  • New in June 1984 with a Duple Laser body and re-bodied by East Lancs in July 2000, this Leyland Tiger was one of the more unusual vehicles to operate for Strathtay Scottish and is now preserved. IAIN SMART