Edinburgh Corporation Transport 638 (YWS638)

            During the summer holidays throughout my childhood in the 1970s and early '80s, my parents often took me and my brother for a day out to Edinburgh.  This view (scanned from a rather dark and grainy old slide I recently acquired) is taken sometime in the early 1970s and is very typical of how I remember Edinburgh buses as a child, with Leyland Titan PD2s, PD3s and Leyland Atlanteans painted in the attractive madder and white colours running around everywhere you looked.

Here we see 638 (YWS638), an Alexander bodied Leyland Titan PD2A/30 dating from 1962, on Edinburgh's North Bridge whilst working service 1.  Behind is an unidentified Leyland Atlantean PDR1A/1, from either the SSF-H or WFS-K registered batches, which were among the last PDR1 Atlanteans with Alexander J-type bodies purchased by Edinburgh Corporation Transport before the undertaking switched to the then-new Atlantean AN68 with Alexander AL bodywork for future orders.  Also noteworthy in this nostalgic view is the Ford Cortina Estate, Hillman Minx and Ford Anglia - all three now well-established and desirable classic cars.

Copyright Peter Barclay/Peter Barclay Collection

Taken in: UK / Scotland / Edinburgh (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 2021

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Edinburgh Corporation Transport

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