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A new Seddon T type livery

A new Seddon T type livery

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…

Stranraer’s solitary DMS

Stranraer’s solitary DMS

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…

Y Type Dual Purpose Seating

Y Type Dual Purpose Seating

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

Ayr Buzzers

Ayr Buzzers

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…

A new double deck livery

A new double deck livery

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,…

ASD843T

ASD843T

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…

E867RCS

E867RCS

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…

Back end of a bus!!

Back end of a bus!!

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…

GCS54V

GCS54V

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…

Seddon T Type Seating

Seddon T Type Seating

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

H661UWR

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

MSJ366P

MSJ366P

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…

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