ALAN MILLAR learns the inside story of a remarkable project that has seen Lothian Buses’ skilled craftsmen strip down and rebuild a fleet of vintage London double-deckers, restore them to original liveries and make them available for private hires, commercial promotions and summer sightseeing tours. KEITH McGILLIVRAY provided most of the photographs.
The scene inside Seafield Works in April, as re-roofed former Green Line Routemasters RCL2241 and RCL2248 are transformed back to original condition.
It may look like a modest, even anonymous industrial building from the outside, but within its walls on the east side of Edinburgh arguably the biggest reconstruction and refurbishment of ex-London Transport Routemasters is being undertaken since Aldenham works did this on an industrial scale.
