provide bus services throughout the North East of England, with operating centres in Newcastle, South Shields and Sunderland to the North and Hartlepool and Teesside to the South.
The operations are divided into these Northern and Southern regions based upon the territories of their predecessors, Busways Travel Services Limited and Cleveland Transit Limited respectively. Across each of the six depots within the group the fleet composition varies; a brief profile of each of the Stagecoach North East operating companies and fleets follows.
Until August 2007,
Stagecoach North East also included Stagecoach in Darlington.
On 22nd August 2007, the Darlington operations were sold to
Arriva North East.
NORTHERN DIVISION (Busways Travel Services Limited) |
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Stagecoach
in Newcastle
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Slatyford depot is the former home of Newcastle Busways while Walkergate depot is the replacement for the now demolished Byker depot – former home of City Busways (and later Newcastle Busways) and Blue Bus Services. Both depots operate their own services under the Stagecoach in Newcastle name as well as jointly operating some services. |
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The Walkergate fleet is primarily composed of easyACCESS Enviro400 deckers and ALX300 bodied MAN’s. Recent deliveries have comprised four batches of Enviro400 easyACCESS deckers, with a total of 62 now in service at the depot. The Walkergate allocation is completed with a few high floor Volvo B10Ms and Olympians. In addition to standard services, Walkergate also operates the Quaylink services, using state-of-the-art easyACCESS electric hybrid vehicles and branded high floor Darts. |
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The Slatyford fleet is composed of easyACCESS ALX300 bodied MAN’s, Enviro400 deckers, high floor Volvo B10Ms, Dennis Darts and, most recently, easyACCESS Enviro200 bodied MAN midibuses. In addition to standard City services, Slatyford depot operates express Service 100 to the Gateshead MetroCentre, using branded 05-plate easyACCESS Dennis Enviro300’s and also operate branded 06-plate MANs on Service X47. Slatyford also houses the City Sightseeing fleet which currently comprises 5 former Sunderland Busways converted open top Leyland Olympians. |
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Stagecoach
in South Shields
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is based in Chichester,
the former home of South Shields Busways and Economic.
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The fleet consists of easyACCESS Volvo B10BLE's, easyACCESS
Darts (both ALX200 and Pointer 2 bodied),
high floor Darts, high floor Volvo B10’s and their most recent new vehicles, 14 easyACCESS Enviro200
bodied MAN midibuses. Stagecoach in
South Shields operates local town services as well as 3 “E” routes into
Sunderland and express Service X34 to Newcastle, the latter using a specially
branded pink and white B10M. |
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Stagecoach
in Sunderland
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is based at the
Wheatsheaf, the head office of Stagecoach North East.
Prior to Stagecoach ownership, this depot was home to Sunderland Busways
and Favourite. |
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Stagecoach in Sunderland
operate mainly easyACCESS ALX300 bodied MAN’s and Dart SLF’s (both ALX200 and Pointer 2
bodied) with handful of high floor Darts
and,
their newest vehicles, two batches of easyACCESS Enviro200 saloons (including
both integrated Enviro200 Dart and MAN chassis).
Stagecoach in Sunderland operations are confined to the city boundaries. |
SOUTHERN DIVISION (Cleveland Transit Limited) |
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Stagecoach
in Hartlepool |
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is based at Brenda Road depot, home to Hartlepool’s youthful fleet of easyACCESS Enviro200 bodied MAN midibuses and Dart SLF’s (both ALX200 and Pointer 2 bodied). The Hartlepool fleet is rounded off with a couple of high floor B10Ms. |
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Stagecoach in Hartlepool operates local town services as well as the longer distance easyACCESS flagship Service 1 to Middlesbrough. Hartlepool's newest vehicles are a batch of 19 easyACCESS Enviro200 bodied MAN midibuses which represented bulk replacement of almost 50% of the fleet. |
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Stagecoach
on Teesside |
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is based at Church Road Stockton, the former home of Cleveland Transit. Operations are principally localised in and between the towns of Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees, with longer distance easyACCESS Service 36 extending to Hartlepool. |
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The Stagecoach
on Teesside fleet is composed mainly of Volvo Olympians, Volvo B10M’s, easyACCESS
ALX300 bodied MAN’s
and Volvo B10BLE's. |
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