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Employees cut ribbon at Bannockburn garage

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Published date10 September 2021
Publication titleStirling Observer
It covered 1.78 acres, replaced a smaller garage at Quakerfield, Bannockburn, and was built at a cost of £80,000, the equivalent of £1.9 million today.

A total of 94 bus crews were to operate from the complex and a total staffof 130 were to be employed there.

The depot had accommodation for 54 buses under cover and 30 more on hard standing outside. Buses based at the garage would travel around 40,000 miles a week on routes in central Scotland.

Single and double-decker buses were to be garaged at the new depot, relieving pressure on space at the Forth Street depot, Stirling .

The Observer said: 'The new depot is equipped with the latest in maintenance, repair and cleaning services. Included in the plant is the latest bus-washing machine operated on the 'magic eye' principle.

'As soon as the bus breaks the magic eye beam, the washing, spraying and rinsing operation is set in motion.'

Lord Lieutenant of the County Sir Ian Bolton, chairman of the Scottish Area Board of the British Transport Commission, officially opened the garage by cutting a ribbon across one of the main doors.

Addressing those assembled, St Ninians-born Sir Ian said just as at...

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