week ending Sunday 22nd January 2017

Information posted on January 20th 2017 at 15:00
➨East Yorkshire Motor Services
Dart SLF 304 has been delicenced at Hull and is for disposal, however, 396 which was delicenced has returned to service. Volvo B9TL 717 is moving from Elloughton to Hull in exchange for 736. New Volvo B5TL 800 has been named Paul Sainsbury. The name was previously carried by Volvo B9TL 735.
 
➨Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire
Now in driver training livery is Scania L94UB/Wright Access Floline 28543 with 28539 next to receive training livery. Also being prepared for paint is Trident 18156 which will receive corporate livery replacing the historic Ribble livery currently carried
 
➨Stagecoach Yorkshire
We understand that Hybrid Enviro 400H 12176 has received corporate livery on repaint, replacing the two-tone green and white livery previously carried.

Information posted on January 19th 2017 at 11:00
➨Stagecoach Oxfordshire      
Enviro 200 36770 was finally transferred from Oxford to Banbury yesterday (January 18th) with Reserve Fleet Dart SLF 34469 moving from Banbury to Oxford for storage.
 
➨Stagecoach South West       
Reserve Fleet Trident 18131 is currently operating from Torquay.

Information posted on January 18th 2017 at 15:40
➨Stagecoach Midlands
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Trident 17722 on loan from Stagecoach West has been transferred from Leamington to Kettering.

➨Stagecoach South East
It is understood that the fleet of 30 Mercedes Sprinter minibuses that have spent several months parked up at Ashford and Eastbourne will enter service on a revamped Ashford Town network next month. Scania/Enviro 400s 15703/04/05 have been reported as transferring from Folkestone to Herne Bay.

➨Stagecoach South West
Latest recipient of the purple/lilac Hop 2 livery is Scania/Enviro 400 15896 with 15897 expected to be the next vehicle to be repainted. The old-style Hop 2 branding has been removed from Enviro 400 19102.

➨East Yorkshire Motor Services
We understand that the company has placed a further order with ADL for five Scarborough-based Enviro 200MMCs. They are expected to be delivered later this year.

➨Stagecoach UK Bus 2017/18 new vehicle orders
The various Stagecoach UK Bus subsidiary companies are currently setting their budgets for the 2017/18 financial year. The current work will confirm that bids for new vehicles, which have already been made, have been agreed. The full order details are not expected to be confirmed by Stagecoach Group, however, until all the budget planning work has been completed and signed off.
We are aware, however, that new Enviro 400MMCs for the Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire fleet have been agreed and delivery of 33 vehicles, with fleet numbers from 10811, will start imminently.

Information posted on January 17th 2017 at 15:35
➨Stagecoach East
All four orange-liveried (Newmarket Road) Park & Ride Enviro 400MMCs, 10807-10810, have now transferred from Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire, where they have been on loan, and were at Cowley Road depot in Cambridge this afternoon.

Information posted on January 16th 2017 at 14:40
➨Stagecoach East Midlands
Trident 18045 has been damaged after a fire on board this morning.

Information posted on January 16th 2017 at 09:30
➨Stagecoach North East
The four Dennis Trident/ALX 400 Double Deckers acquired from Stagecoach Manchester for conversion to partial Open Top to replace the Northern Counties Leyland Olympians used on City Sightseeing duties at Slatyford are now almost complete.
17240 (X368 NN0) - was repainted into Overall Red Livery and was at Slatyford by 11th November 2016.
17239 (X239 NNO) & 17643 (W643 RND) - were repainted into Overall Red Livery and returned to Slatyford on 15th December 2016.
17645 (W645 RND) - was repainted into Overall Red Livery and returned to Slatyford on Friday 13th January 2017.
All four vehicles now just require the application of Newcastle & Gateshead City Sightseeing Graphics.
The fifth vehicle transferred from Stagecoach Manchester, 17647 (W647 RND), remains in undercover storage at Stockton Depot and was acquired as a source of spares for the other four vehicles.
➨Stagecoach West
Work on route branding vehicles here continues and those recently done are:
Scania/Enviro 400 15521-25 Gold livery with service 97/98 branding; Scania/Enviro 400 15527/28/30/31 Gold livery with Service 63 branding, whilst MAN/Enviro 300 22751 is the first to receive Service 66 branding on its Gold livery.