Lothian buses head west

Edinburgh's city bus operator, Lothian Buses are now operating to West Lothian, throught their Lothian Country Buses operation. The services from Whitburn -Edinburgh Park & Bathgate -Edinburgh City, both via Livingston are in direct competition to First's services in the area.
Lothian have also announced new routes starting in late September within West Lothian.
First have recently revised their local network in the area.

First review Stirling services- cuts to Hillfoots, Clackmannan, Cowie & Cornton

Following on from their reviews of services in Falkirk & West Lothian, First Midland Bluebird have, this morning, announced their review to services out of Bannockburn depot.
Full details are available here , where you'll also find a feedback form. The bus company will also be available at Stirling Bus Station on Friday for consultations.  Friday is also the closing date for feedback.
The main "improvement" will be the X36 Service between Stirling & Glasgow, which will be increased to half hourly, and will run as a real express after Cumbernauld.
But on the more local routes, there are cuts planned. The current Cowie- Stirling services are reduced to half hourly, and will serve both Whins of Milton and Braehead on the same journeys. The services will then extend to Alloa.  Services via the Hillfoots will also reduce to half hourly. There will be a 15 minute frequency maintained between Alloa & Stirling.
Services via Cornton and Bridge Of Allan will only run every half hour (currently every 20 minutes) between Stirling  and the University.
Clackmannan Service 60 will be withdrawn, which is not a surprise, due to its' high fares compared to other operators and services. The town will still be served by NHS/Clacks Council funded H1/2 services as well as Mackies and Stagecoach.
The revised services are likely to be implemented on 10th September.

First remove services from Falkirk Bus station in planned shake up.

First have posted their planned revision of services in the Falkirk area on their website, which include removing all services from Falkirk Bus Station.
Changes include increasing the X37 Glasgow service to half hourly, and reducing the 38 service to half hourly between Linlithgow & Edinburgh.
Boness will see services cut to half hourly whilst Langlees will see service increased to every 15 minutes.
Full details with proposed timetables are here, and First will host a Customer Roadshow next Wednesday, June 27th, 1200-1700.

Alloa trains withdrawn for a month

Major engineering work, preparing for electrification of the line, will result in no trains between Alloa and Stirling from Sunday March 18th through to Sunday 15th April.

Hospital and Clacks local services continue

Clackmannanshire Council and forth Valley Health Board have agreed to continue to fund the C1/C2 and H1/H2 bus services for another three years. The Council had considered merging the routes, but in the end decided on the status quo. The only change is, that from the end of March First will take over the C1 Alloa Town Centre service.

Citylink add early & late journeys to Edinburgh

Citylink are adding early morning, late night & Sunday journeys to the Service 909 between Stirling & Edinburgh, starting from next Monday, January 8th.
Three early morning Monday-Friday journeys begin in Cumbernauld, then Stirling's Raploch Campus , Bus Station at 0435, 0520 & 0553, the the 0700 service now beginning in Perth.
In the evening there's a later departure from Edinburgh at 2015, and an even later journey, departing St Andrews Square at 0015, operating via Falkirk.
On Sundays there will be buses operating through Stirling at 0900 & 1500, returning at 1030 & 1630.
At the same time, Service 909 returns to operating along Newlands road in Grangemouth, and not Charing X.

Alloa Bus Garage photos sought

Susan Fleming has posted on theAlexanders Buses Remembered Facebook page to say that she has just set up a photography studio in what was the canteen area of the Alexanders Bus Depot on Clackmannan Road, Alloa and would love to find photograph(s) of the depot which could be displayed  for people to see when they visit.