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Driver Training vehicles

There is a constant need for driver recruitment with Stagecoach , to cater for this need, they operate a training school from Stockton Depot. The Group purchased a large quantity of Renault-Dodge buses with Wadham-Stringer bodywork for this task. They were ex W.D. and some eleven years old when purchased. They have manual gearboxes and comply with the current legislation for driver training. After the recruit has passed their P.C.V. test, they are retrained on modern automatics

No 17, D157 HHN is such a vehicle

School contracts

Stagecoach Transit, holds a number of school contracts. For this task, high capacity double deckers were transfered in from Stagecoach Busways. They are 1981 Leyland Atlanteans with eighty-six seat bodies. They arrived in 1999
EJR 110W waits for its turn of duty at Church Road

1999 Ex London Transport Leyland Titans

Stagecoach has a policy of moving vehicles round the regions in order to balance the needs of the operating company. Teesside still has a large need for high capacity double deckers, so Leyland Titans were transfered into the area, when they were replaced by new low floor double deck buses in London

A new life for Atlanteans

Leyland Atlanteans were cascaded down into the Transit fleet
Several Atlanteans, dating from the early 1980’sere brought down from the ex Busways Fleet to be used on local and schools services on Teesside.

(below) this one, EJR110W lasted until March 2004 extending its life by three years

A batch of Mercedes minis

The ex Transit Renault minis had become life expired
They were quickly disposed of and the new Group standard vehicle the Mercedes 208 was brought in to the fleet.

(Below, HDZ2616 was one of the batch, they were used on lightly used local services

Ex Transit Fleetlines

The ex Cleveland Transit Fleetlines saw most of their life out in the new livery and suited the scheme well

(below) JAJ 137W lasted until 2001 under the new regime

New M.A.N.s

Several new M.A.N. vehicles were bought by Stagecoach Transit

These proved to be excellent vehicles, with their low floors and kneeling suspension and were soon put to work on heavily used routes, replacing double deck buses

(Below)This 99 registered bus, V672DDC is seen in original livery

A new Corporate Livery

A new Corporate livery was adopted in 2001 and some vehicles were rapidly repainted
Route branding was also introduced for dedicated buses

T658OEF looks magnificent in this John Atkins picture of it working the branded 36 route from Hartlepool to Middlesbrough

All the Lynx models survived until 2003

All the ex Transit Lynx saw service with Stagecoach

Several others were brought in from Cumbria. Stockton, Hartlepool and Sunderland were the main bases for the model. Eventually some were retained as Driver Trainer vehicles

(Below) J901UKV had originally been the Mk.II demonstrator before being bought by Cleveland Transit

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