North Bridge and the Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh, 1971
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This 1971 view looks north-west across North Bridge with the Carlton Hotel dominating the right-hand side and the bulk of Arthur’s Seat and Salisbury Crags rising beyond the city. The traffic is full of period transport detail, including Edinburgh Corporation Transport buses in the city’s familiar madder-and-white livery, among them one of the forward-entrance Leyland Titan PD3 double-deckers with Alexander bodywork on the bridge itself. Edinburgh bought batches of these front-engined PD3s in the 1960s as part of the fleet’s move towards safer forward-entrance designs.
Mixed in with them are Eastern Scottish vehicles, including a Bristol coach outside the Carlton Hotel, a reminder that North Bridge was still a busy corridor for both city buses and longer-distance Scottish services at the start of the 1970s. Eastern Scottish, the fleet name used by Scottish Omnibuses, was a major operator of coach services across eastern Scotland and beyond, and Bristol coaches were a familiar part of its long-distance fleet in this period.
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