Stagecoach Sheffield - Fleet

Fleet

In June 2006, fourteen new buses arrived in Sheffield and entered service in July. These included ten brand new Dennis Dart SLF vehicles with pink "Route 88" branding, along with four other Dart SLFs from Stagecoach Manchester. Buses on routes 52, 83 and 120 also received the new "Route ---" branding, in sky-blue, blue and lime green respectively.

Commencing in Spring 2007, a batch of 25 MAN 18.240 buses with Alexander Dennis ALX300 bodywork arrived at the Ecclesfield depot to work the 83 and 88 routes. 30 were ordered for Sheffield, to displace the 10 Darts new in June onto other routes, but the last 5 were diverted to Barnsley for the Stagecoach Yorkshire fleet. This kept the Darts in operation on Service 88. In September 2010 a batch of MAN 18.220 arrived in Sheffield from Stagecoach Oxford for use mainly on new service 79. New Scania N230UDs with Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 bodywork also arrived in October 2010 for the "Route 88", receiving new style branding, which allowed the previous "88" vehicles losing their branding and going onto the new Service 87. Several more Enviro400s arrived in September 2011; however, these Enviro400s are hybrids, and are painted in a green variant of the usual livery.