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Having adorned a black, white and three toned grey stripe livery since January 1981, Western decided to upgrade its entire Seddon T type fleet starting…

The Western Scottish depot at Stranraer was well renowned for it’s double decker allocation in the 80’s and 90’s, mainly for schools work to Stranraer…

As well as local and national bus services Western SMT / Western Scottish also operated a hugely successful Private Hire and Extended Tour programme. Coaches…

Back in December 1986 local newspapers, including the Ayrshire Free Press, reported that Western was proposing minibus operation over much of the Ayr and Prestwick…

After many, many years wearing Western’s attractive red and cream livery, the double deck fleet started to receive a variation of Western’s earlier introduced black,…

After a long history of operating double decker buses at Stranraer depot, the beginning of the end for this type began in January 1995 when…

In September 1987 Western Scottish took delivery of it’s last batch of ‘brand new’ Double Deckers. These were to be six Alexander RV bodied Volvo…

For many years the Western depot at Dumfries provided repaint and engineering support for the Southern area garages alongside the main works at Kilmarnock. Many…

Parked up at Western’s Dumfries depot on Eastfield Road are a selection of recently delivered Alexander Y type bodied Leyland Leopards. Closest to the camera…

Western SMT / Western Scottish purchased the Seddon Pennine 7 in large numbers in the 1970/80’s. In total Western purchased 112 Alexander “Y” type bus…

H661UWR was a Dennis Javelin / Plaxton Paramount 3200 C53F purchased new to Wallace Arnold of Leeds in April 1991 to evaluate the Javelin chassis.…

The majority of Western’s Seddon T types received the black, white and grey dual purpose livery but there were rare exceptions to that rule. One…