Fife Scottish IIL 3504 (E626 UNE, GIL 2967, E937 XSB) and Durham Travel P57 XNL in Edinburgh - 2 Aug 1997

Saturday 2 August 1997 – Coaches parked at St. Andrew’s Street bus station, Edinburgh prior to working services in quite opposite directions. Within the next four hours they would be about eight hours apart.

Left is Fife Scottish 504 (IIL 3504), a Van Hool Alizée bodied Volvo B10M which was new to Smiths-Shearings as E626 UNE in March 1988 (along the way it had also carried registration numbers GIL 2967 and E937 XSB). It went on to work the 1025 Scottish Citylink service 997 to Inverness (due approx 1416).

On the right is Durham Travel Services P57 XNL, a 1995 Volvo B10M/Plaxton Expressliner, which was going to work the 1030 National Express service 591 to London (due there 1900).