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Alexander Dennis Enviro400 acquired from Stagecoach Manchester at Piccadilly Gardens in January 2025 Alexander Dennis Enviro400EV at Trafford Centre in February 2024. Metroline was founded in April 1989 as a business unit of London Regional Transport ahead of the privatisation of London bus services, being sold in October 1994 in a management buyout worth £20 million (equivalent to £ ...
Willesden garage was home to a handful of notable experimental vehicles in the Metroline fleet. Prototype AEC Routemaster RML3 was allocated to the garage in 1958, with the garage later home, albeit briefly, to the first production Routemasters on route 8 in 1959; Routemasters were retained at Willesden until 2004 on route 6 and route 98.
In January 2008 Mayne's bus division was sold to Stagecoach Manchester. [4] [5] [6] The Ashton New Road bus depot was sold to supermarket chain Aldi, which commenced demolition in December 2007. The bus fleet then briefly operated from the Fairclough Street coach depot, supplemented with temporary parking at the adjacent Manchester Velodrome.
Metroline Manchester was an early major customer for the facelift StreetDeck Ultroliner as part of the rollout of its Tranche 3 Bee Network services, with a total of 135, most of which were ordered by Transport for Greater Manchester, delivered and stored until the commencement of services on 5 January 2025.
Under Go North West, the route received a fleet of 12 Enviro 200s, featuring a bright orange 'Manchester Orbit' livery, sharing with route 52. [5] In 2024, following the sale of Queens Road Garage to Stagecoach Group , the route was taken over again by Stagecoach Manchester , operating as part of Trenche 2 Bee Network .
As part of the Greater Manchester Clean Air Plan created by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, a fleet of battery electric buses are planned to replace these buses on the 135 upon the completion of electrification works at Queens Road garage, with the segment of the route on Lever Street near Stevenson Square identified as a site of ...
Metroline are also scheduled to take delivery of a further 28 BZL single-decks for use on routes 228 and 316 during the first quarter of 2024. [13] Stagecoach London followed with an order for 19 single-deck BZLs, which entered service on route 276 , [ 14 ] following with a further order of 16 single-decks for route 314 and 45 double decks for ...
Stagecoach Manchester [1] is a major bus operator in Greater Manchester, operating franchised Bee Network bus services on contract to Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM). It is the largest UK bus subsidiary of Stagecoach Group outside of Greater London , as well as the largest within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester by ...