enviro  200 

Various

Like Dennis Darts Diamond Bus has never purchased a new Enviro 200. All the current vehicles of this type have in the main been acquired with the recent purchases of fellow operators Hanson’s of Wordsley and Central Buses. These vehicles have entered the Diamond bus fleet still in their former owner’s livery but with Diamond bus fleet names added. The one exception to this is KX07OOW which has been in the Diamond Bus fleet since 2011. Initially the vehicle operated from the former Long Acre depot under the Central Connect license but as the company was merged with Diamond Bus the vehicle ended up at their Tividale depot. This vehicle has operated alongside mainly Volvo B7 vehicles on the key commercial routes such as the service 16 and 50 in Birmingham.  On 24th April 2022 Rotala acquired the Claribel Coaches operation when a further E200  joined their fleet number 20533. With the purchase of the Johnson's bus operation in May 2022 7 ADL E200's joined the Diamond bus fleet.

20512/24/30-2/21101-4

With the purchase of the bus operations of Hanson's Local Bus on Sunday 25th February 2018 a number of Enviro 200 vehicles joined the Diamond Bus fleet. These were of both the short and long wheel base varieties. All entered the Diamond Bus fleet in Hanson's Local Bus livery but with Diamond Bus fleet names added. Repainting took around a year to complete by which time a number of the vehicles had been returned Minstral who owned all of the vehicles at the time they entered the Diamond Bus fleet.

21105-7,30962-6/71/5/6/7/31102

With the purchase of the bus operations of Central Buses on Sunday 25th February 2018 a number of Enviro 200 vehicles joined the Diamond Bus fleet. These were of both the short and long wheel base varieties. All entered the Diamond Bus fleet in Central Buses livery but with Diamond Bus fleet names added. Repainting took around a year to complete by which time a number of the vehicles had moved to the Diamond Bus North West operation.

30700-2/7-13

With the letting of the first bus franchises in Manchester there has been some fall out amongst the existing bus operators. including the sudden closure of the little Gem operation. This operator stopped running and went into voluntary liquation on Friday 26th April 2023.  The company been been in  difficulties  for some time. The company was owned by the Goodwin family and was a separate business to their Little Gem is a separate company to Go Goodwins Group and Mayne Coaches operations which are still in business.  Fortunately for Rotala the Little Gem operation had been running from a depot opposite to their Diamond Bus Eccles depot which needs enlarging or replacing to accommodate the franchised work they are taking on from September 2023. Rotala both purchased the Little Gem depot and 14 vehicles all of which have been retrofitted to Euro VI emission standards. To meet the requirement of all vehicles in the West Midlands being of Euro VI emission standards  the acquired vehicles were moved to the West Midlands.

31416-22

With the purchase of the bus operations of Johnson's of Henley in Arden from 29th May 2022 seven further E200 single deck vehicles joined the Diamond Bus fleet. All seven had  been purchased new by Johnson's as they gained various TfWM and Warwickshire County Council contracts  All seven were allocated to Redditch on the transfer of the operations and initially were used on the Johnson's services that had been acquired.  With the loss of the Warwickshire County Council contracts from the end of July 2022 the vehicles have seen use on the Redditch town bus services.  By September 2022 3146/7/8/22 had been transferred to Burton on Trent and the remaining 3 to Kiddrminster

31423-33

With the purchase of Midland Classic on  3rd August 2022 this brought another 11 E200 single deck vehicles into the  Diamond Bus fleet. Unlike  the vehicles that entered the fleet from Johnson's these vehicles had not  all been purchased new by Midland Classic. The oldest five all 12 plate vehicles are dual door and started life in London on red bus contracts. The other six are single door examples  and were a mixture of new and nearly new vehicles when they joined the Midland Classic fleet. All 11 joined the Diamond bus fleet at the Burton on Trent depot.