Information posted on July 30th 2018 at 13:10
✤Stagecoach London
Withdrawn Dart SLFs 34377/88/93 and 34554 are now for disposal here whilst 34372/80/84 have been sold to Lister PSV whilst Volvo B12B coaches 54051/53/54/55 have gone on loan to Stagecoach Yorkshire for Rail Replacement duties. Trident 17980 is now a spare vehicle at Romford.
 
✤Stagecoach Oxfordshire
Banbury’s damaged Enviro 200 36448 is currently at Plaxton’s Anston site for repairs, whilst previously unreported by us is that Van Hool Astromega 50281 is out of service and delicenced.
 
✤East Yorkshire Motor Services
The five Volvo B7TLs that went on loan to Go North East during the Tall Ships event, 586/94/95 and 650/52/54/67 are now permanent transfers.
Nineteen vehicles have been delicenced here during the school holidays - Volvo B7TLs 583/84/85/87/88/89/91/92, 658/59/62/63/96/97, 710/11 and Volvo B9TLs 718/28/29.
Volvo B7RLE 338 has transferred from Pocklington to Bridlington.
 
✤Stagecoach West
New Gold-spec ADL Enviro 400MMCs 10982/83 (SN18KUP/O) have arrived here and are at Gloucester for preparation. They will be allocated to Swindon. 
 
✤Stagecoach Manchester
A further ADL Enviro 400 due here from Stagecoach Yorkshire is 19566. The five vehicles are required for an increase in vehicle requirement from September but also for an immediate vehicle requirement due to Metrolink train replacement work.
 
✤Stagecoach Yorkshire
We understand that the following vehicles are on loan to Stagecoach Yorkshire for Chesterfield-Derby Rail Replacement services
From Stagecoach Midlands (3) Volvo B12B 54058/59/60
From Stagecoach West Scotland (3) Van Hool Astromega 50201/06/25
From Stagecoach East Scotland (5) Volvo B12B 54048/49/63/64/75           
From Stagecoach London (4) Volvo B12B 54051/53/54/55         
From Stagecoach South Wales (1) Van Hool Astromega 50235

Information posted on July 27th 2018 at 10:30
✤Stagecoach West Scotland
Optare Solos 47495 and 47496 are now in the Reserve Fleet at Ardrossan, being replaced by 47822 from the Reserve Fleet and 47842 transferred from Ayr. ADL Enviro 27226 has transferred from Cumbernauld to Ayr whilst 27715-18/20-22 and 27770-73, recently transferred here from Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire have been allocated to Ayr. Also at Ayr are Optare Solos 47838/39 and 48022. All the remaining MAN/Enviro 300s are Ayr have been stood down from the main fleet with 22854 in the Reserve Fleet at Ayr and 22859 in the Reserve Fleet at Kilmarnock. 22850/52/58 are pending transfer to Stagecoach South. Similar 22864/65/66 have been transferred to Stagecoach Highlands.
Van Hool Astromegas 50210/06/25 are on loan to Stagecoach Yorkshire for Rail Replacement work with 50239 and 50242 now in service from Kilmarnock. Re-registrations here are 50240 to WLT917 and 50242 to 511OHO. 
The two Optare Solos at Cumbernauld have been taken out of service with 47360 now for disposal and 47388 earmarked for use as a staff shuttle vehicle at Ardrossan.
Enviro 200s 36147 and 36148 have transferred from Ayr to Dumfries displacing MAN/ALX300 22386 and Dart SLF 35239 to the Reserve Fleet there. Volvo B7R 53319 has transferred from Arran to the Reserve Fleet at Kilmarnock.
Optare Solos 47826/27 and 47981/82 have been taken out of service and are awaiting return to Strathclyde Transport.
 
✤Stagecoach North Scotland
The closure of Fort William depot is now complete with Enviro 300 27914 transferring to Inverness, Volvo B7R 53333 to Aviemore and Optare Solo SRs 47812 and 47813 to Orkney where they have been joined by 47811 from Inverness. Reserve Fleet Enviro 400 19372 is back in service at Inverness whilst also now at Inverness is Dart SLF 35195.
Volvo B7RLE 21207 and Volvo B7R 53294 are out of use for repairs at Skye and have been replaced by Volvo B7Rs 53262 and 53312, the latter transferred from Aviemore where it has been replaced by 53333. 
Out of use for repairs at Orkney are Enviro 300 27623 and MAN/Enviro 300 22790. Enviro 400 19558 from Buchan, Volvo B7R 53268 from Aberdeen and Scania/Enviro 300 28644 from Tain are also out of use for repairs.
Enviro 300 27805 has transferred from Inverness to Aviemore.
The three MAN/Enviro 300s transferred here from Stagecoach West Scotland, 22864/65/66, are being prepared for service on Orkney.
Vehicles scrapped are Dart SLFs 34726 and 34796 along with Optare Solo 47482.
Optare Solo 47489 is back in service at Buchan and similarly Enviro 200 36202 is back at Inverness but 36048 from Inverness is currently out of service for repairs.

✤Stagecoach Megabus/Joint Venture Operations
Volvo B13R 54101, transferred here from the Rennies Fleet at Stagecoach East Scotland is at Inverness where it is covering for Volvo B12R 53103 which is out of service for repairs.
 
✤Stagecoach South West
Tridents 18393/95 returned yesterday to Plymouth after loan at Exeter with 18397 expected to return to Plymouth today.
Reserve Fleet vehicles now allocated to Exeter are Dart SLF 34725 and Optare Solo 47093, whilst Optare Solos 47099 and 47597 have been stood down from the main fleet at Torquay to the Reserve Fleet.
 
✤Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire
Reserve Fleet Dart 34688 has now been transferred from Carlisle to Morecambe for conversion into a driver trainer.

Information posted on July 27th 2018 at 16:00
✤Stagecoach North East
Former Volvo B10M training vehicle 20550 has been sold to Ensign Bus, whilst a reduction in summer school holiday vehicle requirement at Walkergate has seen Enviro 400 19434 go on loan to Slatyford with 19443 on loan to South Shields.
 
✤Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire
Look out for ‘White Lady’ open top Trident 17012 appearing on Lakes route 78 (Seatoller-Keswick) during the next week following its temporary allocation to West Cumbria.

Information posted on July 26th 2018 at 16:00
✤Stagecoach Yorkshire
The first four Scania/Enviro 400s transferred here from Stagecoach South West (15660/61/63/66) have been put to work at Barnsley and allowing the cascade of four ADL Enviro 400s, 19562/63/64/65, to Stagecoach Manchester. Reserve Fleet Dart SLF 34582 has returned to service at Barnsley allowing the transfer of Enviro 200 37182 to Chesterfield.
MAN/Enviro 300 22768 has returned to service at Rawmarsh, displacing MAN/ALX300 to the Reserve Fleet there. Wright Streetlite 39101 is now at Ecclesfield with Dart SLF 35110 being transferred to the Reserve Fleet. Ecclesfield’s MAN/Enviro 300 22561 is currently delicenced.
Volvo B7TLs 16937/38 along with Dart SLF 34577 have been sold to AH Hardwick and Dart SLF 34577 has gone to GTG Training.
Previously unreported by us is that the Routemaster here has been renumbered from 12462 to 19954 whilst the ERF recovery vehicle at Chesterfield 97011 (B482FEW) has been sold. 
 
✤Stagecoach West Scotland
Received here from Stagecoach East Scotland are Scania/Enviro 300s 28651/52/55/61 with 28653/54/56/57/58/59/60 to follow.
 
✤Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire
A further four Volvo B7R coaches are due here from Stagecoach East Scotland - 53258/88/90/96.
 
✤Stagecoach East Scotland
Surplus Volvo B12Bs 54048/49/63/64/75 are being transferred to Stagecoach Yorkshire for Rail Replacement duties from Chesterfield depot, whilst similar 54069 is now in the Reserve Fleet here from Glenrothes.
Trident 18070 is now for disposal here and MAN/Enviro 300 22572 in the Reserve Fleet from St Andrews.
Volvo B13R 54101 has moved to Stagecoach North Scotland in exchange for Volvo B12B 53104, which is now part of the Rennies fleet. Also in the Rennies fleet is Volvo B9R 53707, transferred from Dunfermline.
Optare Solo 47212 has been scrapped and 47220 transferred from the main fleet at Perth to the Reserve Fleet whilst Enviro 200 37081 has transferred from St Andrews to Perth.
New 11.8m Enviro 200MMCs 26112-23 are allocated to St Andrews and will be joined by 26124-26. New Plaxton Panther LE coaches 54511-14 are now allocated to Dunfermline with 54511-19 being prepared for service at Perth. The three former Stagecoach South East Mercedes-Benz Sprinters here, 44015/06/07 are at Aberhill being prepared for service.
 
✤Stagecoach North East
MAN/Enviro 300s 24114/15 have received pink-based promotional all over adverts for the Great Exhibition of the North.

Information posted on July 24th 2018 at 16:00
✤Stagecoach East Midlands
The Dart SLFs being converted to training buses here retain 33 seats and also have an instructors seat fitted over the nearside wheel arch. Tridents 17724/27 have been sold to AH Hardwick.
 
✤Stagecoach East
Following the withdrawal of Royston service 26, the outstation at Royston (which used vehicles from Cambridge) has closed. Royston is now served by an extension of the Busway A route.
 
✤Stagecoach South West
Look out for MAN/Enviro 300 24148 re-entering service here in a pink/purple-based version of the Stagecoach livery with promotional branding for Cancer Research UK.
 
✤Stagecoach South
Transferred here from Stagecoach West Scotland are MAN/Enviro 300s 22851/55/57/62, which are being prepared for service. Volvo B10M training bus 20982, which had been on loan here, has been returned to Stagecoach Manchester.
Enviro 200s 36918/19 are now allocated to Chichester but 37272 is now in the Reserve Fleet awaiting re-allocation. WE understand that Optare Solo 47538 has been sold.

✤Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire
Trident 18140 is now undergoing repairs and has been replaced at Barrow by 18360, whilst 18374 has been transferred to Stagecoach West Scotland.
MAN/Enviro 300s 24169/71 are now in the Reserve Fleet at Morecambe. The Optare Solo used as an Information Bus here, 47881, is now out of use and being used for component recovery prior to disposal.
 
✤Stagecoach Manchester
A number of Enviro 400s were on loan to Stagecoach Yorkshire last weekend to operate Supertram Replacement services during a strike by tram staff. Vehicles advised as being on loan were 19184, 19223/65/68/69/93 and 19328.
In a reversal of what we have come to expect from vehicle re-allocations, Manchester has received cascaded Enviro 400s from Stagecoach Yorkshire with the transfer of 19562/63/64/65, which are now in the Reserve Fleet here.
Sold to PVS are Volvo B7RLEs 21238/42 and MAN/ALX300s 22092 and 22093.

Information posted on July 23rd 2018 at 14:40
✤Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire
A further coach here is Volvo B7R 53297 (909RWX) transferred from the Rennies fleet at Stagecoach East Scotland. Further ADL Enviro 300s to leave here for Stagecoach West Scotland have been 27716-18/21/70-73.
Optare Solos 47341 and 47713 have transferred from Gilmoss to Birkenhead whilst Reserve Fleet 47713 is now for disposal here. The company is showing former Chester Dart SLFs 34814/20 as being at Gilmoss with 47035 now being allocated to Chester as are ADL Enviro 300s 27779, 27902 and 27925 with 27778 now being at Gilmoss. Also at Gilmoss and transferred from Preston is MAN/Enviro 300 24172 whilst Trident 18385 from Gilmoss is now in the Reserve Fleet.
 
✤Stagecoach West
Staff at Rotala and Stagecoach West were told on July 19th that Stagecoach would be taking over Rotala’s North Bristol operation.
In a message to staff, Rupert Cox, Managing Director at Stagecoach West said:
“I am pleased to report that we have concluded a deal with Rotala plc to take on most of the bus routes operated by their Wessex subsidiary in and around Bristol. Around 50 drivers and engineers will transfer across to Stagecoach West along with services 3 (3A, 38, 3C & 3X), 11/11A, 508, 513/514, 515, 625 and the TSB Staff Shuttle. 
“We are still finalising some aspects but we expect to start operating these services on Sunday 2 September 2018 and operate from our existing base in Patchway. 
“This is an exciting time for our growing business in Bristol and I'll share with you more details of what will be happening during the coming days and weeks”.
Rotala’s operations in Bath will be closed down.
Nine vehicles are due to transfer to Stagecoach, one Optare Solo and eight ADL Enviro 200s.
 
✤Stagecoach Group/Stagecoach UK Bus
Transport operator Stagecoach confirmed today (23rd July 2018) that it has partnered with bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and technology company Fusion Processing to produce a single deck autonomous bus.
Once complete, the 12m ADL Enviro200 vehicle will be completely autonomous and able to operate without a driver in an off-road environment. The technology also delivers road safety benefits when driven in manual mode.
Work on the vehicle is being carried out at ADL’s site in Guildford and the bus is expected to be ready for use by the end of this year.
In the short term, the bus will be used in autonomous mode only within the depot environment, to carry out movements such as parking and moving into the fuelling station and bus wash. Using self-driving vehicles within depots more widely could help improve safety, efficiency and space utilisation within the depot.
Legal restrictions mean the vehicle will not be used in autonomous mode in passenger service for some time. However the system can be used straight away to help improve the safety of road users. For example, when the bus is driven in manual mode, the sensor system on the bus, whilst not engaged to drive the vehicle, can still be used to provide assistance to the driver by warning of cyclists or pedestrians that may be in the blind spot or arrive unexpectedly close to the vehicle.
Over time, autonomous bus technology is expected to be used more widely, including on services carrying passengers, dependent on legal developments.
Stagecoach UK Bus Engineering Director Sam Greer said: “Stagecoach has long been at the heart of innovation within the bus industry and this is an exciting trial that will deliver the UK’s first fully autonomous single deck bus.”
“We look forward to working with our partners on this project which we believe could, in time, help improve safety and efficiency within our depots, and over the longer term, help transform bus travel in the future.”
The Stagecoach bus will be fitted with the CAVstar® system provided by Fusion Processing Ltd.
 CAVstar® was utilised successfully in the UK’s largest public trial of autonomous vehicles to date, in Greenwich earlier this year, and a number of other projects.
The system uses multiple sensor types, including radar, laser, camera and ultrasound, along with satellite navigation to detect and avoid objects, in all weathers, day and night, and plan an optimum path for the vehicle.
Jim Hutchinson, CEO of Fusion Processing Ltd said: “We’re delighted Stagecoach and Alexander Dennis have selected our CAVstar® product, the sensor and control system that enables autonomous vehicles. CAVstar® will offer increased safety and efficiency, and will be demonstrated in the Stagecoach trials later this year. “
Ken Scott, Group Engineering Director at ADL, commented, “ADL is renowned for harnessing the latest technology solutions to enhance our products and services to benefit our customers, their passengers and the wider environment. We’re excited to be working with Stagecoach and Fusion Processing on this innovative project. In the first instance it will deliver real and demonstrable improvement to efficiency and safety in depots, while taking another significant step on our journey to bringing fully autonomous vehicles to market.”
 
✤Stagecoach South West
Scania/Enviro 400s 15662/64/65 have been taken out of service at Exeter in preparation for transfer to Stagecoach Yorkshire at Ecclesfield. To provide temporary cover at Exeter, Tridents 18393/95/97 have been transferred from Plymouth. They will be used pending the remaining former Stagecoach South Scania/Enviro 400s entering service here. Once 15601-05 are all in service we understand that 15667/68 will also be displaced and are likely to be transferred to Stagecoach Midlands.
 
✤East Yorkshire Motor Services
Volvo B9TL 790 returned here on July 16th following a short period on loan to Go North East, where it was given temporary fleet number 9093. We also understand that Volvo B12B/Plaxton Panther 71 is currently on loan to Go North East whilst the Volvo B7TLs that were transferred to Go North East for work during the Tall Ships event - 586, 594/95, 650/52/54/67 - are unlikely to return to the main EYMS fleet.
 
✤Stagecoach South Wales
Four of the Mercedes Sprinter minibuses transferred here from Stagecoach South East are now in service with 44001/05/06 at Porth and 44004 at Blackwood. 44004 is in the Reserve Fleet at Blackwood whilst 44002 is being used as a staff shuttle vehicle at Blackwood allowing Optare Solo 47202 to return to the Reserve Fleet. Now for disposal here are Optare Solo 47293 and Dart SLF 34755. The plan to convert Dart SLF 34677 to a training vehicle has either been cancelled or temporarily put on hold as it has returned to the operational fleet at Porth.
Optare Solo 47206 is transferred from Porth to the Reserve Fleet at Aberdare with 47201 moving from Aberdare to Blackwood. At Blackwood Dart SLFs 34522 and 34676 are now in the Reserve Fleet and Dart SLF 34555 is in the operational Reserve Fleet at Merthyr. Reserve Fleet Optare Solo 47757 is now allocated to Cwmbran with 47642 moving over into the Reserve Fleet. Also in Reserve at Cwmbran is Scania/Enviro 300 28722, with 28725 returning to the operational fleet there.
 
✤Stagecoach South East
Reserve Fleet Trident 17590 has been allocated to Eastbourne whilst Volvo B10M training coach 52498 has been sold.

Information posted on July 19th 2018 at 15:25
✤Stagecoach London
Transferred to Stagecoach West for component recovery are Dart SLFs 34378/79/83/85.
 
✤Stagecoach East Midlands
We understand that the conversion work on the Dart SLFs being modified for training duties is taking place at several depots here with the company reporting 34457/59 at Lincoln, 34461 at Hull, 34464 at Grimsby, 34474 at Mansfield and 34476 at Worksop.

Information posted on July 18th 2018 at 19:55
✤Stagecoach South Wales
Now here and at Blackwood in the Reserve Fleet is 47909, a former Norfolk Green Optare Solo latterly operating with Stagecoach East.
 
✤Stagecoach Midlands
The new Gold-spec ADL Enviro 400MMCs for Kettering depot (11126-38) for the X4 Northampton-Peterborough service are due here in September/October. They will displace a similar number of Gold-spec Scania/Enviro 400s (15739-51) which will transfer to Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire.
 
✤Stagecoach East
The Coasthopper branding has been removed from Optare Solo SRs 48033 and 48035 at Bedford and ‘Stagecoach in Bedford’ branding applied to the green and blue base livery. ADL Enviro 200MMC 37439 has also had most of the Coasthopper branding removed.

Information posted on July 17th 2018 at 17:00
✤Stagecoach Oxfordshire
A report from our friends at the Oxford & Chiltern Bus Page confirms that the Van Hool Astromega (50237) on loan from Stagecoach South Wales for Oxford Tube work is now in service, whilst displaced 50286 has been sent to Stagecoach Yorkshire’s Chesterfield depot for repaint with 50285 due to follow this week. Our prediction is that 50285 and 50286 will remain at Chesterfield for Rail Replacement work moving north to Stagecoach West Scotland in September.
 
✤Stagecoach East
Further surplus vehicles extracted from the former King’s Lynn depot and moved to Cambridge are Optare Solos 47910/12 and East Lancs-bodied Trident 18280, whilst 47905 has been reported at Bedford.
Tridents 17484 and 17500 along with open top Tridents 17079/99 and 17276 are all parked up at Ely.
 
✤Stagecoach North East
We received reports over the weekend that Enviro 400MMCs 10631/52/53 were at Sunderland depot on 14thJuly, presumably for use in connection with the Tall Ships event.

Information posted on July 13th 2018 at 18:50
✤National Express West Midlands
National Express West Midlands tells us that keen-eyed locals in the Black Country will have noticed a distinctly different bus livery that might take them back in time to the 1960s. 
In a nod to Walsall’s transport history, National Express West Midlands fleet number 4601 has been repainted and is now touring the streets with a stunning blue and yellow Walsall Corporation livery. 
The new fixture in the local bus operator’s fleet is a timely introduction, with the region’s heritage and culture currently being celebrated during this month’s bostin’ Black Country Festival.
Originally a two-tone blue, Walsall Corporation changed its livery to a simpler blue with yellow bands, which was then known as the Corporation’s final livery up to October 1969 when the Corporation bus fleets of Walsall, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich and Birmingham were absorbed into the then-newly formed West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive. 
In 1986 WMPTE transferred its vehicles and services to West Midlands Travel, which was subsequently bought by National Express in April 1995. 
 
✤Stagecoach Oxfordshire
Our friends at the Oxford & Chiltern Bus Page report that Van Hool Astromegas 50285 and 50286 have been made surplus with the Oxford Tube operation here and are being transferred to Stagecoach West Scotland. They also report that similar 50237, on loan here from Stagecoach South Wales, has not been used to date.
 
✤Stagecoach East Midlands
Major repairs have been completed to ADL Enviro 400MMC 10735 and it has returned to service at Hull. Tridents 17724/27 have been sold whilst similar 17710/12 will be taken out of service at Hull and used for component recovery. As a result 18039 from the Reserve Fleet has returned to main fleet use at Hull. At Gainsborough 18038 has been delicenced for repairs with 18053 being returned to main fleet use from the Reserve Fleet.
Being transferred from here to Stagecoach South West are former MegabusPlus Volvo B7Rs 53603 and 53604.
Reported by the company as delicenced at Grimsby is Enviro 200 37207.
Following conversion for driver training duties Dart SLF 34473 will be allocated to Lincoln and 34475 to Hull. Both now carry training livery and await application of branding.
 
✤Stagecoach South West
Further Stagecoach South Scania/Enviro 400s to enter service here are 15805 (on July 10th) and 15600 (on July 11th) with 15804 also due to enter service imminently. All are being allocated to Exeter.
The transfer of Enviro 200MMC from Plymouth to Exeter is currently still to take place and will do so once Dart 35243 is returned to use at Plymouth.

Information posted on July 13th 2018 at 22:10
✤Stagecoach Manchester
We have been advised that Reserve Fleet Enviro 200 36422 is expected to join the allocation at Sharston, whilst Stockport-allocated 36484/85 and 37034-37 are due to be taken out of main fleet use and allocated to the Reserve Fleet.

Information posted on July 10th 2018 at 09:00
✤Stagecoach Oxfordshire
At Banbury, Dart SLF 34471 has received the gearbox from 34469 in order to keep it in service, whilst we understand Dart SLFs 34436/67 are currently restricted to Banbury town services. We also understand that 34466 has been extracted from external storage and is being prepared for a return to service at Banbury.
 
✤Stagecoach East
Optare Solo 47909, which had been moved from the former King’s Lynn depot to Cambridge, has now turned up at Bedford. Also at Bedford, although the reason is not known, is Trident 18340 which is part of the Long Sutton allocation.
 
✤Stagecoach Manchester
Enviro 400 19274 is now back at Ashton following a period on loan to Stockport.
 
✤Stagecoach South West
Scania/Enviro 400s 15660/61/63/66 were moved yesterday from Exeter to Stagecoach Yorkshire​’s Ecclesfield depot in Sheffield.

Information posted on July 10th 2018 at 15:55
✤Stagecoach Midlands
It has been confirmed that four Dart SLFs are leaving this fleet for Stagecoach South West. 34822 is already at Plymouth with 34821/23/24 to follow.
 
✤Stagecoach South West
The first of the ex-Stagecoach South Scania/Enviro 400s to enter service at Exeter is 15806.
 
✤East Yorkshire Motor Services
A further vehicle to go on loan to Go North East for use during the Tall Ships event is Volvo B9TL/Wrightbus Gemini 790. It will be a short-term loan and will not receive a Go North East fleet number.