(08 Apr 2023, 9:23 am)Bus lad wrote 22080 on the back of an Alpha Recovery truck last night heading north on the A19.  An alpha truck was heading south, possibly to take 22070 from Stockton?

(08 Apr 2023, 9:33 am)F114TML wrote Were they in service condition or did they have all the seats and windows ripped out? If the latter, then they'll be going for scrap.

(19 Feb 2023, 9:33 am)Aaron21 wrote

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Didn't know where I'd put this but yesterday spotted in service was 22428 which hasn't tracked since July last year. Unfortunately no photo

(08 Apr 2023, 9:33 am)F114TML wrote Were they in service condition or did they have all the seats and windows ripped out? If the latter, then they'll be going for scrap.

(09 Apr 2023, 12:19 pm)toward6931 wrote https://www.stagecoachgroup.com/media/news-releases/2023/2023-04-06.aspx#:~:text=Stagecoach%2C%20the%20UK%E2%80%99s%20biggest%20coach%20and%20bus%20operator,places%20its%20largest%20electric%20bus%20order%20to%20date. 170 new vehicles announced for Stockport, i imagine there may well be cascades keeping an eye out for

(09 Apr 2023, 12:26 pm)Michael wrote Oxford are also getting 159 new buses too


Could end up with quite alot of movements in the fleet, along quite alot of buses getting withdrawn too.

(09 Apr 2023, 12:19 pm)toward6931 wrote https://www.stagecoachgroup.com/media/news-releases/2023/2023-04-06.aspx#:~:text=Stagecoach%2C%20the%20UK%E2%80%99s%20biggest%20coach%20and%20bus%20operator,places%20its%20largest%20electric%20bus%20order%20to%20date.  170 new vehicles announced for Stockport, i imagine there may well be cascades keeping an eye out for

(09 Apr 2023, 9:18 am)Mr Alx300 22062 NK54 BFF wrote It Was Working service 52 on Tuesday 

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Saw 22024 and what was believed to be 22064 heading up the A19 early Friday morning… if the image actually works then it’s visible that they had been doing stuff since it’s withdrawal as they have a wellwoman Advert on the back of 22024 which wasn’t in that advert when I saw it in early August before it was withdrawn

(10 Apr 2023, 7:14 am)citaro5284 wrote Stockport will come under Andy Burnham's franchsing, so quite strange that they are ordering all these vehicles, The franchise for Stockport as far as I know has not been put out to tender yet.....wonder if this mean at Stagecoach will now retain Stockport becoause of the ZEBRA funding.

(10 Apr 2023, 10:47 am)Lollist wrote Not your photos but ok

(10 Apr 2023, 12:18 pm)BusLoverMum wrote I couldn't find a more appropriate spot for this - 16336 (which I realise now was a SC Cumbria vehicle)
https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/people/local-charity-raising-money-to-convert-old-stagecoach-bus-into-greenhouse-4097666

(14 May 2023, 9:09 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Sunderland have shedded an awful lot of MAN E200s without replacement from what I can tell.  Did they just have a bloated fleet post-Covid or have I missed some replacements coming in?  Since late summer 2022 by my reckoning they have lost 39671-73/75, 39710-15 and 39725/26/29, while only gaining 19387, 27796, 27913 and 27914.

(14 May 2023, 9:19 pm)F114TML wrote We have (or had) a 61-plate 3600 from Shields (36471?).

(14 May 2023, 9:31 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote 36478 came over but that was in exchange for 27740 I believe?

(15 May 2023, 4:19 am)pbjd wrote Was to allow 27740 to be a more suitable spare than the E200s for the X34.


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(15 May 2023, 8:32 am)deanmachine wrote There's a few ex Scottish E300s in Shields, not sure if they're Euro 6 though, pretty sure they have spare deckers too.

(22 Jun 2023, 10:27 am)toward6931 wrote stagecoach east Scotland have had one of their E400 MMCs go up in flames in Dundee yesterday, believe it was a 2015 example.

they don't have much luck in Scotland do they? i don't think they look after their vehicles aswell as down here

(22 Jun 2023, 10:41 am)54APhotography wrote You have a point. The state of some of the E300s that arrived here in were shocking. The E350H that could have been cascaded are rated amongst the worst of the lot for condition ..

(22 Jun 2023, 10:27 am)toward6931 wrote stagecoach east Scotland have had one of their E400 MMCs go up in flames in Dundee yesterday, believe it was a 2015 example.

they don't have much luck in Scotland do they? i don't think they look after their vehicles aswell as down here

(22 Jun 2023, 10:50 am)Storx wrote In fairness they had a very hard life, the fact they actually work is quite impressive, the work they were typically on are much harder than anything down here. Arriva have wrecked numerous Enviro's on the X15/X18 in the same time which is similar work.

(22 Jun 2023, 5:34 pm)toward6931 wrote to be honest I travelled on some of the scanias when they were at inverness back in 2017, im not sure which route it was, it went from inverness bus station out to Invergordon, it didn't feel a particularly hard run, a lot of it was like the central motorway in Newcastle