Stagecoach 100% accessible depot allocations

[robertclark125]

As it seems stagecoach is well placed to be ready for the 2016 deadline on all buses being accessible, here's a thought. What Stagecoach UK bus depots OUTSIDE London have a 100% accessible allocation? These must be actual depots, not outstations, whose allocations change daily.

 

[mbonwick]

Oxford (the whole region)
Buchan (excluding schools, I think)
Gainsborough
Mansfield
Manchester (the whole region, if you exclude MagicBus)
Nuneaton
South Shields
Sunderland
Hartlepool
Worthing
Ayr
Chesterfield
Ecclesfield
Holbrook
Rawmarsh

 

[tbtc]

Holbrook

It was, then 20892 came (from Ecclesfield)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebustocrookes/5703726563/

This means Stagecoach in Sheffield are one of the few operators to have gone low floor and then gone back to having step entrance again. A rare club?

Interesting list though, especially as it shows a lot of "quieter" places that I'd never have expected to be 100% low floor (e.g. Buchan, apart from the schools)

 

[mbonwick]

20892 is not officially allocated to Holbrook, it is being used from reserve.
Also, it may have ceased use now that Shafton has closed.

Buchan's main work is local services which are Solo/Dart operated.

 

[robertclark125]

Better clear something up. Buchan is listed as being fully low floor except for schools. Manchester is listed entirely as low floor except for magicbus. Therefor, these are not 100% low floor depots/regions. These non low floor vehciles are allocated to the depots concerned, and are available to use, so therefore when I say 100% low floor/accessible, I mean the entire allocation for that depot, including schools.

 

[mbonwick]

Well just take them out of that list then!
The odds of seeing a non-accessible vehicle on regular service at those depots is rare, and personally I think it's unfair to include MagicBus in all this.

There are other depots which are accessible except for schools and contract work, but I have deliberately left them out as there is a good chance of step entrace stuff appearing on regular work.

 

[gnolife]

Oxford (the whole region)
Buchan (excluding schools, I think)
Gainsborough
Mansfield
Manchester (the whole region, if you exclude MagicBus)
Nuneaton
South Shields
Sunderland
Hartlepool
Worthing
Ayr
Chesterfield
Ecclesfield
Holbrook
Rawmarsh

Ive been on route 191 (Stockport to Manchester Albert Square via Plymouth Grove) and had a non-Magic Bus with steps at the entrance, i think the bus was numbered in the 13XXX series, the timetable for it says that its Hyde Road based

 

[mbonwick]

Times have moved rather rapidly in Manchester.
I suggest you take a look at the fleetlist at http://www.freewebs.com/nwbus if you don't believe me.