Information posted on October 30th 2018 at 15:45
✤Stagecoach East Midlands
ADL Enviro 400MMCs 10735 and 10743 are being transferred on short term loan to Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire, where they will be temporarily allocated to Morecambe.
 
✤Stagecoach London
We understand that the six surplus 8.9m single-door ADL Enviro 200s here, 36314-19, will be joining the Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire fleet.

Information posted on October 29th 2018 at 12:05
✤Stagecoach Midlands
Withdrawn Dart SLF 34627 has received a blue and gold livery in the style carried by the MAN/ALX300s in the training fleet, suggesting it will be joining the training school. However, it does not appear to have received any internal modifications and is expected to beer used for driver CPC training. The Volvo B10M//Alexander PS currently used at Northampton for driver CPC training is expected to be added to the Stagecoach UK Bus heritage fleet.

✤Stagecoach East Midlands
The open top Skegness Seasider fleet operated for the final scheduled time in 2018 last weekend and now in the Seasonal Reserve pool are ADL Enviro 400 19169, Volvo B7TLs 16964 and 16966 along with Tridents 17013/15/16 and 17673/75/76/77/78.
Now back in service at Skegness after engine repairs is Volvo B7TL 16914. The only vehicle now retaining the older purple/gold Interconnect livery is Volvo B7TL 16909.

✤Stagecoach Oxfordshire
ADL Enviro 200 36762 has returned to Witney after a period on loan at Banbury.
 
✤East Yorkshire Motor Services
We understand that Volvo B9R coach 91 is to go on loan to Go North East whilst Volvo B7RLE 384 is due to transfer from Beverley to Hull in exchange for Volvo B9BTL 761. Volvo B7TL 581 has been delicenced at Bridlington and replaced there by 669.
A transfer planned for November 1st 2018 will see Volvo B7TL 707 transferred from Withernsea to Hull in exchange for Volvo B9TL 745.
 
✤Stagecoach UK Bus vehicle status
We are frequently asked what it means when vehicles are referred to as being in the Reserve Fleet and also why vehicles are sometimes seen operating when they have been shown as withdrawn or for disposal.

​Depots have a core allocation of vehicles which is calculated on the peak vehicle requirement (PVR) plus a number of additional vehicles to cover routine maintenance and repairs. Generally the additional vehicles are calculated as a percentage of the PVR. The Number of spares varies across depots but nominally will be between 12% and 14% of the PVR. So a depot of 50 vehicles may have six or seven additional vehicles.
The Reserve Fleet may be split into two categories. The operational Reserve Fleet comprises additional vehicles that are not regarded as part of a depot’s core allocation but are available for use. Thus it is not uncommon for Reserve Fleet vehicles to be seen in service on a regular basis as they provide a contingency for vehicles requiring non-scheduled repairs.
Some companies refer to strategic Reserve Fleet vehicles, which includes vehicles undergoing major repairs or modifications, whilst other companies show these vehicles as delicenced.

​Where a company shows a vehicle for disposal it does not mean that it has already been taken out of service. It may be the case that it will continue to be used until road tax or MOT expires or in some cases the vehicle becomes due for its next maintenance inspection. Thus vehicles shown as being for disposal may continue to be used in service in the short term. Where an additional vehicle is needed at a depot it is possible that if no suitable surplus vehicles are available than a vehicle previously parked up for disposal may be put back into core fleet service.

Information posted on October 26th 2018 at 11:00
✤Stagecoach East Midlands
Three Dart SLFs from Lincoln have been transferred to Stagecoach South West and are due to enter service at Plymouth. 34849 was from the operational fleet at Lincoln and 34687 and 35134 were in the Reserve Fleet.

Information posted on October 25th 2018 at 14:00
✤Stagecoach Midlands
Trident 18155 at Northampton has received an all over advertising wrap for Hits Radio.
 
✤Stagecoach West
Dart SLF 34597 has been withdrawn from service at Swindon and is now for disposal., whilst Reserve Fleet Tridents 17722 and 18377 along with Scania/Enviro 400 15769 are now allocated to Stroud. Having been replaced with Optare Solo 47910 from the Reserve Fleet at North Bristol, 47621 has been transferred to Cheltenham. Former Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire Enviro 300 27705 is now allocated to Gloucester.
Further Gold-spec MAN/Enviro 300s out of service here and transferred to the Reserve Fleet are 22746 and 22754 from Stroud.
No longer part of the fleet here is Dart SLF 34404 whilst former Reserve Fleet buses now for disposal are Optare Versa 25232 and MAN/ALX300 22377.
 
✤Stagecoach North East
The company has confirmed that the three MAN/ALX300s recently disposed of have been sold to Alpha Recovery.
MAN/ALX300 22013 at Slatyford is now in the Reserve Fleet having been replaced in the main fleet there by 22428.
Further vehicle exchanges here have seen Enviro 200 36067 and 36088 transferred from Sunderland to Hartlepool in exchange for MAN/Enviros 200 39671 and 39711.
 
✤Megabus UK/Joint Venture
New Volvo B11Rs 54602/04-10 have been allocated to Rugby.
 
✤Stagecoach East
Withdrawn MAN/ALX300 22337 has now been moved from Peterborough to March depot for storage prior to disposal. Also now back at March is open top Bristol FLF 19952.
 
✤Stagecoach Oxfordshire
Reserve Fleet Dart SLF 34466 was back in operation from Banbury earlier this week allowing Enviro 200 36763 to go on loan to Oxford which is an unusual move given Banbury are currently operating 36762 which is on loan from Witney.
 
✤Stagecoach South East
Scania/Enviro 400 15442 has received a commemorative ‘poppy’ wrap.
 
✤Stagecoach Yorkshire
Hybrid Enviro 400 12092 is the latest vehicle of the type to receive corporate livery.
 
✤Stagecoach London
Tridents 17749, 17877, 17900/40/92/95 have been scrapped whilst 17976 is now with Stagecoach South East for component recovery and similar 18492/93 are recorded by the company as being transferred to Stagecoach Scotland, presumably East Scotland for the same purpose. 18215 has been donated to the police.
Delicenced for repairs are Enviro 400 Hybrid 12363, Volvo B5LH Hybrids 13005/09 and Scania/East Lancs 15123.
Enviro 400MMCs 11055 and 11058 are here and due to be allocated to Catford whilst unallocated Enviro 400s 10199, 10200/02/03 are for Rainham.
Enviro 200s 36556-69 have been taken out of service and are being returned to the leasing company.
Further Tridents now for disposal here are 17799, 17856, 17996, 18204, 18453/66/68/70, whilst 18488 which had been for disposal is now back on the fleet strength at West Ham.

Information posted on October 19th 2018 at 15:30
✤Stagecoach North Scotland
New 11.8m ADL Enviro 200MMCs 26127-30 are allocated to Inverness with 26131-34 at Elgin. Optare Solos 47391 and 47569 have been scrapped whilst Wright Commuter-bodied Volvo B7RLE 21202 is now for disposal here. Vehicles now in the Seasonal Reserve Fleet are Trident 18069 (from Orkney) along with Volvo B7Rs 53226 (from Aberdeen), 53256 (from Skye) and 53273 (from Insch).
Reserve Fleet MAN/Enviro 300s 22864/65/66 have returned to the main fleet at Orkney displacing Optare Solos 47252, 47565 and 47570 which are now out of use for refurbishment.
Mercedes-Benz Sprinters 44018/20 are now allocated to Inverness with 44025/26/27 being prepared for service there.
Vehicles returned to service following repairs are Volvo B7Rs 53310/13 at Aberdeen; Enviro 200 36048 (at Aberdeen) and 36957 (at Elgin) along with Volvo B7RLE 21207 (at Skye), Scania/Enviro 300 28644 (at Tain) and Volvo B9R 53641 (at MacDuff).
Volvo B7R 53336 has transferred to Stagecoach West Scotland whilst similar 53262 has transferred from Skye to Aviemore with Scania/Enviro 300 28601 moving from Inverness to Aviemore and Optare Solo 47566 from Tain to Aviemore.
Optare Solo 47572 has moved from Orkney to Stonehaven in exchange for 47588.
Vehicles taken out of service for repairs in the last month are: Enviro 200 36035 (from Elgin), Enviro 400 19371 (from Inverness), Enviro 300 27631 (from Inverness), Volvo B9R 53638 (from MacDuff) and Volvo B7Rs 53252/81/84 (from Aviemore).
 
✤Stagecoach Midlands
Reserve Fleet ADL Enviro 200 37071 has returned to main fleet service at Northampton with 37070 expected to re-join the main fleet there imminently. Tridents currently delicenced are 18149 (from Northampton) and 18157 (from Kettering), whilst MAN/Enviro 200 39686 has returned to service at Kettering after completion of repairs.
Dart SLFs 34592/94 and 34643/44 have been sold to Catch 22 Bus. 
Now for disposal here are former Reserve Fleet Volvo B12B 54074, Optare Solo 47413 and Dart SLFs 34625/26/27 and 34772.
We understand that the planned transfer of Dart SLFs 34823 and 34824 to Stagecoach South West will not now be taking place.
 
✤Stagecoach East Scotland
Volvo B7TLs 16925/28/29 have been sold to Archway Travel whilst Optare Solo 47225 is to be scrapped and 47230 is now for disposal here.
Optare Solo SR 47872 is now allocated to Perth with 47226 now in the Reserve Fleet. Trident 18082 has transferred from Perth to Aberhill in exchange for 18506. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 44016 is now allocated to Arbroath.
 
✤Stagecoach East 
Another former Norfolk Green Optare Solo to transfer to Stagecoach South Wales is 47907.

✤Stagecoach South West
Scania/Enviro 400 15604 is now allocated to Exeter but similar 15667/68 are now in the Reserve Fleet. Optare Solo 47088 is at Plymouth whilst Reserve Fleet Dart SLFs 34607/09/10 and Optare Solos 47089/92/93/99 and 47597 are being prepared for service at Plymouth

Information posted on October 18th 2018 at 12:20
✤Stagecoach Midlands
A start has now been made on repainting the five East Lancs-bodied Scanias here (15401-05) out of Corby Star livery. Now back at Kettering and in service in corporate livery is 15401. Once completed no operational vehicles will carry Corby Star livery and the use of the brand name, launched in 2004, will come to an end.
The first batch of Gold-spec Scania/Enviro 400s displaced by new Gold-spec Enviro 400MMC, on the X4 Northampton-Kettering-Peterborough route are expected to leave here imminently for Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire. The new Enviro 400MMCs for the route were officially launched in Kettering town centre yesterday when 11135 and 11136 were on display.

Gold-Spec Optare Solo SRs 47967-71 have been confirmed as having moved from Leamington to Stagecoach South Wales and further, in exchange 36483/44/45/50 and already reported 37169 are at Leamington.

✤Stagecoach North East
A further MAN/ALX300 sold from this fleet is 22021. 
Enviro 200 36090 was transferred from Sunderland to Hartlepool yesterday in exchange for MAN/Enviro 200 39672.
 
✤Megabus UK/Joint Venture
Volvo B13R 54127 has transferred from Stagecoach East Scotland at Perth to Stagecoach West Scotland at Cumbernauld, whilst Van Hool Astromega 50234 is out of use at Cumbernauld for repairs.

✤Stagecoach West Scotland
Van Hool Astromegas 50201/06/12/13/14/16/17/18/19/25 have now all be sold. 50201/06/17/18/19/25 has latterly been used by Stagecoach Yorkshire on Rail Replacement work between Chesterfield and Derby. 
Dart SLF 25239 has been donated to charity.
Three more Scania/Enviro 300s transferred here from Stagecoach East Scotland, 28653/54/59, have now entered service at Ardrossan displacing MAN/Enviro 300s 22522/24/26 to the Reserve Fleet. Also at Ardrossan is Optare Solo 47839 which has transferred from Ayr. 
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 44011 has moved from Kilmarnock to Ayr with 44012 now being allocated to Kilmarnock.
Further to previous reports MAN/ALX300s 22386/89 from Dumfries are both now for disposal here whilst Optare Solo 47614 has transferred from Kilmarnock to Dumfries and has been replaced at Kilmarnock by 47613 from the Reserve Fleet.

Information posted on October 16th 2018 at 11:45
✤Stagecoach East
The use of Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire Volvo B10M training bus 20983 at Cambridge is due to end soon when it is expected to be swapped for MAN/ALX300 22141.

✤Stagecoach South Wales
The entire batch of 14 Gold-Spec Optare Solo SRs from Stagecoach Midlands operating from Leamington (47967-80) are due here and will be exchanged for a similar number of Enviro 200s - 36843-47/49/50 and 37169/71/73/75/76/78/79.

Information posted on October 16th 2018 at 14:30
✤Stagecoach Midlands
We have received a report that the Unibus branding has been removed from several Enviro 400s operating from Leamington depot. Vehicles observed so far have been 10032/37/38/40.
 
✤Stagecoach Yorkshire
Just one East Lancs-bodied Scania SLFs remains in main fleet service (15413 at Chesterfield) following the withdrawal for disposal of 15415 from Chesterfield and the transfer to the Reserve Fleet of 15416/17 (at Barnsley) and 15411/12 (at Chesterfield). Also for disposal here is Dart SLF 35228.
Transferred from Chesterfield to Barnsley are ADL Enviro 400s 19104. 19510/11 and ADL Enviro 400MMC 10662, whilst Scania/Enviro 400 15660 has moved from Barnsley to Chesterfield.  
MAN/Enviro 300 22561 has returned to service at Ecclesfield whilst MAN/ALX300 22442 has been sold to AH Hardwick (dealer).

Information posted on October 15th 2018 at 14:40
✤Stagecoach West Scotland
Two of the new Volvo B11R coaches for Megabus at Cwmbran/Rugby have been diverted here on loan for up to six months. 54601 (YX68UAJ) and 54603 (YX68UAL) are being used at Ayr on the X77 service. Meanwhile, following the sale of Van Hool Astromega 50210, Megabus 50233 has been transferred on loan from Cumbernauld to Dumfries where it has joined 50211 for use on a temporary contract.
 
✤Stagecoach North East
Further swaps of Enviro 200s for MAN/Enviro 200s have taken place here. Enviro 36084 has transferred from Sunderland to Hartlepool in exchange for MAN/Enviro 200 39714. Enviro 200s 36468/70/71/76/77 have moved from South Shields to Slatyford in exchange for MAN/Enviro 200s 39705/06/17/20/21.
 
✤Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire
Volvo B7TLs 16957 and 16958 are now allocated to Chester whilst the remainder of the batch, 16951/52/53/54/56/59 remain in the Reserve Fleet at Gilmoss and are shown by the company as available for service.
Following the entry into service of new Enviro 400MMCs 11113-17 at Gilmoss, older examples 10828 and 10829 have transferred to Birkenhead with 10830/32 now at Chester.
Enviro 300 27113 has moved from Preston to Gilmoss whilst now allocated to Birkenhead are Trident 18385, MAN/Enviro 300 24173 and Optare Solo 47490.
Enviro 400s 19034 and 19040 have been transferred from Chester to Gilmoss whilst Reserve Fleet MAN/Enviro 300 24134 is also now at Gilmoss.
Enviro 400 19046, which has severe roof damage, is now for disposal here whilst vehicles sold are Trident 18154, Optare Solo 47713 and former Stagecoach London Dart SLF 34382. The Dart was only used for component recovery here.
 
✤Stagecoach South East
Dart SLF 34546 is confirmed as being re-allocated to Herne Bay whilst 34444 has been reinstated from the Reserve Fleet to Ashford.
Enviro 300 training bus 27516 is now allocated to the training school at Eastbourne.
Just five of the former Little & Often Mercedes-Benz Sprinters remain here pending re-allocation -44013/14 and 44028/29/30.

Information posted on October 15th 2018 at 16:10
✤Stagecoach South Wales
Currently on loan to Merthyr are Optare Solos 47203, 47344 and 47628.
 
✤Stagecoach East Midlands
A further recipient of ‘Aspire 77’ branding is Scania/Enviro 400s 15178, whilst 15651 has had its Lincolnshire Flag livery re-applied on repaint. Repainted in training livery are Dart SLFs 34464/74. The vehicles recently sold, Tridents 17710/12 and Volvo B7R 53213 have gone to AH Hardwick.
​Scania/Enviro 400 15179 has been repainted in corporate livery but has not received Aspire 77 branding.
 
✤Stagecoach South
Now for disposal here are Tridents 18329 and 18505 whilst 18386 is delicenced for repairs. Tridents transferred here from Stagecoach London for component recovery are 17845, 18485 and 18491. Optare Solo 47048 has been taken out of service and returned to Hampshire County Council whilst Dart SLF 34451, Optare Solo 47546 and Volvo B10M training vehicles 52619/57/58 are no longer detailed on company lists and are assumed to have been sold.
Now in use with the Training school at Worthing is MAN/Enviro 300 22742 whilst Dart SLF trainer 34638 is at Guildford and 34632 at Basingstoke.
Trident 18188 is now in the main fleet at Andover with 18523 at Portsmouth and 18511 at Winchester. Dart SLF 34630 is at Chichester.
Reserve Fleet Dart SLFs re-allocated are 34519 to Chichester and 34633 to Basingstoke.

Information posted on October15th 2018 at 19:40
✤Stagecoach Midlands
Now in service at Leamington is Enviro 200 37169 which has transferred from Stagecoach South Wales. We understand that there is a vehicle exchange plan that will see Enviro 200s transferred here from Stagecoach South Wales in exchange for Gold-spec Optare Solo SRs.
 
✤Stagecoach Oxfordshire
Currently on loan from Witney to Banbury is Enviro 200 36762.

Information posted on October 12th 2018 at 14:10
✤Stagecoach West Scotland
Van Hool Astromegas 50202/03/05/07/08 have been reported with Andrews, Foxton, Cambridgeshire where they have been re-registered.
 
✤Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire
Morecambe-allocated MAN/ALX300 training bus 22823 is now for disposal here as is the former Optare Solo Information Bus 47881. Also now for disposal are Volvo B10M/Alexander PS 20459 and Volvo Olympian 16651.
Open Top Trident 17489 at West Cumbria is now in the Reserve Fleet.

Information posted on  
​October 11th 2018 at 12:30
✤Stagecoach East Midlands
Just two Tridents now remain at Worksop, 18052 named Harriet the Harworth Belle and 18054 named Donna the Doncaster Belle with the other two Bassetlaw Belles-branded Tridents at Lincoln (18055 Beatrice the Bircoates Belle) and Hull (18056 Ruby the Retford Belle). 18055 and 18056 are expected to lose their branding.
The company reports that MAN/ALX300 training bus 22162 is now allocated to Grimsby whilst Volvo B7TL 16907 is a further example of the type now in the Seasonal Reserve Fleet at Skegness.

✤Stagecoach North East
An exchange of vehicles between Sunderland and Hartlepool has seen Enviro 200s 36083/85/89 allocated to Hartlepool with MAN/Enviro 200s 39673 and 39710/13 now at Sunderland.

Information posted on October 11th 2018 at 16:00
✤Stagecoach Oxfordshire
Dart SLF 34436 has been taken out of main fleet service at Banbury and is now in the Reserve Fleet.