Stagecoach is adding 267 new vehicles to its fleet in its current financial year (2018/19). ADL secures the bulk of the order.
It is the only major operator to reveal its orders this year, against a background of sharply declining new bus orders. Stagecoach is the largest UK operator with a fleet of 8,300.
alt=”” class=”figimg” src=”https://www.route-one.net/wp-content/uploads/Sc_South_new_E400s.jpg” style=”float:right” />Just 161 are for regional operations with an additional 10 vehicles for Megabus. The remainder will join the London-based fleet.
The biggest element of the regional order is for 94 MMC-model Enviro 400s, with 45 being finished to Gold specification. The midibus MMC Enviro 200 fleet will be boosted with one 8.9m model, and 14 of the 10.8m versions. There are also 23 MMC Enviro200 11.8m single decks in the order.
In a first for Stagecoach, it will take delivery of nine ADL/BYD electric single decks for the Park & Ride operation in Guildford.
Nine further low-entry Volvo B8RLE chassis with Plaxton Panther LE bodies will join the East Scotland fleet at Dunfermline, bringing the total number of the type operated to 19.
Six of the new Plaxton Panorama vehicles on Volvo B11R chassis will join the West Scotland fleet at Ayr while 10 Plaxton elite i-bodied Volvo B11Rs will update the Megabus fleet.
Six open-top Wrightbus Gemini-bodied Volvo B5TLs are for the Cambridge Sightseeing operation operated by Stagecoach East.
Around a third of the regional order has already been delivered.
London operations will receive 96 vehicles with the 63 double decks being ADL Enviro400 MMC 48v smart hybrids, for Barking and West Ham. There are 33 Enviro200 MMC single-deckers; a mix of 8.9 m, 9.7m and 10.8m variants.
