Lothian Buses has announced a series of service changes coming into effect from Sunday 28 May 2023.
Taking effect from 28 May 2023, new or altered services will be introduced to improve reliability and connectivity, replacing existing services on some parts of the network. With the imminent arrival of the Trams to Newhaven, our teams have been working hard to ensure our bus network will continue to meet the needs of customers.
Here are the changes to local services from the Lothian Buses website:
Service 3
Revised timetable.
Service 21
Revised timetable. On Monday-Friday and Saturday minor timetable changes will be introduced to help with reliability. On Sunday, the daytime frequency will be reduced to every 30 minutes with buses no longer serving the Gyle Centre with all journeys operating between Clovenstone and the Royal Infirmary.
Service 30
Revised route and timetable. Service 30 will operate between Clovenstone and Queen Margaret University. New Service 46 and revised Service 48 will replace Service 30 on the sections between Musselburgh, Stoneybank and Fort Kinnaird.
Service 33
Revised timetable.
Service 400
Minor timetable changes on Monday-Friday and Saturday to improve reliability. On Sunday the daytime frequency will be reduced to every 40 minutes.
New Services replacing parts of the Service 30:
Service 46
New service introduced operating between Musselburgh and Rosewell via Stoneybank, Fort Kinnaird, Royal Infirmary, Dalkeith and Bonnyrigg.
Between Musselburgh and Fort Kinnaird, it will follow the current route of Service 30* and then continue along Niddrie Mains Road, Greendykes Road to the Royal Infirmary. From there it will follow the route of current Service 49 to Rosewell.
Service 46 will operate every 30 minutes on Monday-Friday and Saturday. Coordinated with a revised service 48, there will be a bus every 15 minutes between Musselburgh and the Royal Infirmary. On Sunday, service 46 will operate every 60 minutes between Royal Infirmary and Rosewell. On late evenings, it will operate hourly but only between Rosewell and Dalkeith Centre where a connection with Service 48 coming from Fort Kinnaird will be offered at Buccleuch Street.
There will be a morning school bus from Rosewell to Bonnyrigg and an afternoon school bus from Bonnyrigg to Rosewell to assist with capacity at Lasswade High School.
Service 48
Revised route and timetable. Service 48 will be extended from Fort Kinnaird to Musselburgh Grammar School via Newcraighall and Stoneybank following the route of Service 46 described above. Coordinated with revised Service 46, there will be a bus every 15 minutes between Musselburgh and the Royal Infirmary on weekdays and Saturdays.
Service 48 will not call at QMU campus but stop just outside on Whitehill Farm Road.
You can read the full list of changes on the Lothian Buses website here.
