March 6th 2015

News from Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire is that they have received collision damaged TransBus Dart 34589 from Stagecoach Midlands. It will donate parts for the repair of accident damaged Dart SLF 34717. Leaving the Cumbria fleet is driver training Volvo B10M coach 52030, which has been transferred to Stagecoach West Scotland.
At Stagecoach Midlands Optare Solos 47034/35 have transferred from Northampton to the Reserve Fleet, whilst at Rugby 48039 is back in service following engine repairs and has replaced 47038 which is now receiving engine repairs. Reserve Fleet Volvo Olympian 16684 is now for disposal. Received from Stagecoach North Scotland for use as a training vehicle is Volvo B10M 52657 whilst similar 53028 has transferred to Stagecoach North Scotland at Inverness.
MAN/East Lancs 22510 is now in service with Stagecoach Yorkshire at Barnsley and a further example of the type to be received from Stagecoach East Scotland is 22515. MAN/ALX300 has been taken out of service at Barnsley and is now for disposal, along with 22933. Similar 22801 is transferred from Barnsley to Holbrook.
At Stagecoach North East ADL Trident/Enviro 400 19160 and MAN/ALX300 22038 are both back in service at Slatyford, ousting MAN/ALX300s 22480 and 22675 to the Reserve Fleet.
Slatyford has received Dart SLFs 34609/12/14 from Walkergate, with MAN/Enviro 200s 39723/25/26 transferring to Walkergate in return.
At Stagecoach East the last remaining Volvo Olympians in the fleet 16224/25 have been sold to Ensign and collision damaged Volvo B10BLE 21164 is now for disposal.
East Yorkshire Motor Services has reported that its last operational Volvo Olympian 631 is now out of service and has been replaced at Withernsea with a single deck - Volvo B7RLE 341. ADL Dart/Enviro 200s 356/58/59 have transferred from Hull to Bridlington with Dart SLF 481 transferring from Bridlington to Hornsea and 482 from Bridlington to Pocklington. Withdrawn and sold from the fleet are Optare Solos 421 and 422 with the remaining Solo 423 moving from Hornsea to Elloughton. Open Top Volvo B7TLs 883/84/85 are relicensed for the start of Open Top services in Scarborough. Scarborough has also received Volvo B9TLs 722-26 from Hull. With the allocation of Tridents 638/39 to Hull the last of the ex Finglands vehicles are now in service. Three of the unusual Enterprise Plasma saloons 499-501 have been taken out of service at Hull and delicensed. Finally, previously unreported is that former Whittles coaches 22 and 83 have been renumbered 66 and 64 respectively.