Following further analysis of customer journeys and travel patterns, a service change will take effect across Lothian Buses, Lothian Country, Airport and Nightbus services from Sunday 14 November.
Lothian, like many other transport operators, is currently working in an extremely challenging recruitment market. The combination of delays to medicals/license applications for new colleagues, coupled with safety protocols for colleagues who find themselves in the COVID-19 Test and Protect cycle, means that we are experiencing resourcing difficulties in our driving team on a day-to-day basis.
Whilst we are hopeful that some of the pressures we are currently facing will begin to reduce as the combined impact of these factors begins to lessen, we aim to improve reliability for our customers across our network and mitigate against these ongoing resourcing issues by introducing this service change.
Due to the closure of North Bridge for essential repairs and ongoing tram works at York Place as part of the Trams to Newhaven project, bus services will also be affected by city centre diversions. We would advise customers to plan ahead and allow extra time for their journeys. Details of these diversions can be found here.
Thank you to all of our customers, our colleagues and stakeholders for their continued support and understanding through what continues to be a challenging period for all.
Please note there will be no change to the East Coast buses network at this time.
Details of how other services across the rest of the Lothian Group network will be affected can be found below:
Please note that the closure of North Bridge from Sunday 14 November will result in diversions across a number of services in the city centre. Full details of these diversions can be found on our City Centre Diversions story.
Service 1
No change.
Service 2
No change.
Service 3
Monday – Friday daytime frequency reduced to every 12 minutes.
Service 4
Revised timetable.
Service 5
Revised timetable.
Service 7
Monday – Friday and Saturday daytime frequency reduced to every 20 minutes.
Service 8
Monday – Friday off peak frequency reduced to every 20 minutes.
Service 10
Monday – Friday off peak frequency reduced to every 20 minutes.
Service 11
Saturday daytime frequency reduced to every 15 minutes. Sunday daytime frequency reduced to every 20 minutes.
Service 12
No change.
Service 14
Monday – Friday and Saturday daytime frequency reduced to every 20 minutes.
Service 15
Revised timetable.
Service 16
Saturday daytime frequency reduced to every 15 minutes. Sunday daytime frequency reduced to every 20 minutes.
Service 19
Revised timetable.
Service 21
Saturday daytime frequency reduced to every 20 minutes.
Service 22
Saturday daytime frequency reduced to every 15 minutes. Sunday daytime frequency reduced to every 20 minutes.
Service 23
Monday – Friday off peak frequency reduced to every 20 minutes.
Service 24
No change.
Service 25
Monday – Friday daytime frequency reduced to every 12 minutes.
Service 26
Monday – Friday daytime frequency reduced to every 12 minutes.
Service X26
Revised timetable.
Service 27
Monday – Friday off peak frequency reduced to every 20 minutes.
Service 29
No change.
Service X29
No change.
Service 30
No change.
Service 31
Revised timetable.
Service X31
Revised route and timetable. Service X31 will no longer serve RBS Gogarburn due to low demand and will only operate between Rosewell, Bonnyrigg and Haymarket. RBS Gogarburn will still be served at peak times by Lothiancountry Service X18.
Service 33
Revised timetable.
Service X33
Additional morning journey introduced from Newtongrange.
Service 34
Revised timetable.
Service 35
Revised timetable. Service 35 will follow a different diversion than other North Bridge services via Holyrood. Click here for current diversion details.
Service 36
No change.
Service 37
No change.
Service X37
Additional morning journey introduced from Penicuik.
Service 38
No change.
Service 41
Saturday daytime frequency reduced to every 30 minutes.
Service 42
No change.
Service 44
No change.
Service X44
No change.
Service 45
Revised timetable.
Service 47/47B
Revised timetable.
Service 48
No change.
Service 49
Revised timetable.
Service X7
No change.
Service 104
No change.
Service 106
No change.
Service 113
No change.
Service 124
No change.
School Service 125
No change.
School Service 126
No change.
School Service 127
No change.
School Service 128
No change.
Service 139
No change.
Service 140
No change.
Service 43
Monday-Friday off-peak and Saturday daytime frequency reduced to every 30 minutes.
Service X18
Minor timetable changes.
Service X27
No change.
Service X28
No change.
Service 275
No change.
Service 276
No change.
Service 280
Monday-Friday and Saturday daytime frequency increased to every 20 minutes.
Service 281
Service suspended.
Airlink 100
Revised timetable.
Skylink 200
No change.
Skylink 300
Revised timetable.
Skylink 400
Revised timetable.
Please note that the closure of North Bridge from Sunday 14 November will result in diversions across a number of services in the city centre. Full details of these diversions can be found on our City Centre Diversions story.
Nightbus N3
No change.
Nightbus N11
No change.
Nightbus N14
No change.
Nightbus N16
No change.
Nightbus N22
No change.
Nightbus N25
Introduction of additional journey leaving the city centre at 03:40.
Nightbus N26
First journey to Clerwood moved five minutes earlier.
Nightbus N28
No change.
Nightbus N30
No change.
Nightbus N31
No change.
Nightbus N37
No change.
Nightbus N43
No change.
Nightbus N44
Introduction of additional journey leaving the city centre at 03:15 on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Nightbus N106
No change.
Nightbus N113
No change.
Nightbus N124
No change.
Upcoming diversions in city centre
Due to the closure of North Bridge for essential repairs from Sunday 14 November, a number of our services will be subject to diversions across the city centre. Where possible, these diversions have been designed to adhere closely to original routes, whilst minimising delays.
Full details can be found on our City Centre Diversions story.
Safe Travel
If you are planning a journey on our services, we ask that you continue to help us keep our colleagues and customers safe by following the guidance set out on our Safe Travel page – this includes wearing face coverings over your nose and mouth for the duration of your journey unless exempt, and leaving windows open to increase ventilation.