page_title: Lothian Buses
section_title: Fleet
hierarchical_section_title: Lothian Buses / Fleet
caption_attribution_description: English: A Lothian Buses bus, a Volvo Olympian double-decker with Alexander Royale bodywork, in the Red and White version of the traditional old Madder and White livery. This was used for buses on the long cross city route 15, which this bus is pictured operating, exiting the west end of Princes Street.
context_page_description: Lothian Buses is the largest municipal bus company in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council owns 91%, Midlothian Council 5%, East Lothian Council 3% and West Lothian Council 1%.
  Lothian operates the majority of bus services in Edinburgh, and is a significant operator in East Lothian, Midlothian and most recently West Lothian. It operates a comprehensive night bus network, four Edinburgh Airport services and owns the subsidiary companies Lothian Country, East Coast Buses, Edinburgh Bus Tours and Lothian Motorcoaches.
context_section_description: Edinburgh Corporation and Lothian Buses have historically employed a high degree of standardisation of their service bus fleet, including the use of low-floor buses to facilitate maintenance savings. Lothian have never employed minibuses on their services, although some midibuses were used for a time. As at December 2014 the fleet consisted of 721 buses.
caption: Alexander Royal bodied Volvo Olympian painted in red and cream livery on route 15 in May 2009
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