Uno Buses Route S4 - Garages and Buses

Garages and Buses

Uno operates from a head office and garage in the Hatfield Business Park. The garage and offices were purpose built and opened in 2003. Following the takeover of Centrebus' St Albans operations, Uno continued to operate them from the St Albans garage. However, this was subsequently closed and operations centralised at the Hatfield location.

These London buses were also imported into the Uno (bus company), which is after London General had withdrawn their PVL's due to the incoming Enviro400s and London United had withdrawn all the Scania N230UD/Optare Olympus after choosing the Scania OmniCity as a staple vehicle. These vehicles were subsequently delivered in 2009. In addition, one of the Dublin Bus RA195-198 were also sold to Ensignbus, before subsequently going to Uno (bus company), but it was withdrawn a few months later in 2008 due to problems with their accessibility.

As a result of winning the Northampton University contracts a depot has opened at the Park Campus of the university as of 01/09/12.

Current bus types in use with Uno:

Single deck
  • Optare Solo (both standard and new diesel electric hybrid versions)
  • Dennis Dart / with Plaxton Pointer, Marshall C27 and Wright Handybus bodywork
  • Dennis Dart SLF / with Caetano Nimbus, Plaxton/Transbus/Alexander Dennis Pointer 2/MPD and Wright Crusader bodywork
  • DAF/VDL SB120 / Wright Cadet
  • Scania OmniCity
  • Scania OmniLink
  • Mercedes-Benz O530 Citaro (mainly rigid examples plus a few articulated versions entering service to increase capacity on the University shuttles)
  • Wright StreetLite (recently entered service)
Double deck
  • DAF/VDL DB250 with Optare Spectra (low floor) and East Lancs Myllennium Lowlander bodywork
  • Dennis Trident 2 / Plaxton President
  • Scania N94UD / East Lancs OmniDekka
  • Scania N230UD / Optare Olympus

Previous bus types used by UniversityBus/Uno

Single deck
  • Optare MetroRider
  • Leyland National bought secondhand
  • Leyland National / East Lancs Greenway bought secondhand
  • Leyland Lynx
  • DAF SB220 / Optare Delta bought Secondhand
  • Blue Bird Corporation BRE/CRSE integral All American School Bus
  • Mercedes-Benz OH1416 / Wright Urbanranger
  • DAF SB220 / Northern Counties Paladin
  • Wright Axcess-Ultralow / Scania L113CRL
  • Wright Urbanranger
Double deck
  • Leyland Titan (B15) / Park Royal Vehicles, new to the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive and bought secondhand
  • Volvo Olympian / Alexander R-Type

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