DSCF7056 East Coast Buses 20938 (SN10 DKF) on Princes Street, Edinburgh - 6 May 2017

Saturday 6 May 2017 (0905) – East Coast Buses is owned by Transport for Edinburgh and thus related to Lothian Buses. 20938 (SN10 DKF), a Wright Eclipse Gemini bodied Volvo B9TL new in March 2010 as Lothian 938, was seen passing Jenners Department Store in Princes Street, Edinburgh. It still carries the Lothian Country Buses fleetname.

In June 2012 Lothian formed a separate company named East Lothian Buses (ELB) to take over some services de-registered by First Scotland East (FSE). ELB buses sported a green and cream livery which paid homage of sorts to the colours that once graced the buses of SMT and Eastern Scottish before they were subsumed into the ownership of FSE, colours later lost to First Group’s corporate identity. In August 2013 there was a renaming of the legal operator of ELB which became Lothian Country Buses Ltd (LCB) and the former East Lothian fleet received the fleetname 'Lothian Country Buses' in the TfE style. In August 2016 Lothian bought the FSE garages in the East Lothian towns of Musselburgh and North Berwick and established a new subsidiary company, trading as East Coast Buses Limited (ECB), to operate further services which came with the acquisition. ECB now has a fleet 35 vehicles with LCB now integrated into ECB.