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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.
Registration Number | Fleet Number | Vehicle Chassis | Seating Capacity | Allocation |
MX61BAV | 20533 | ADL E200 SFD1D1AR5AGY11776 | B29F | Tividale |
KX07OOW | 30929 | ADL E200 SFD321AR16G10195 | B37F | Withdrawn 31/5/23 |
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.
Registration Number | Fleet Number | Vehicle Chassis | Seating Capacity | Allocation |
KX57OWM | 20512 | ADL E200 SFD111AR17GY1050 | B29F | Withdrawn and sold 1/21 |
YX09HZB | 20524 | ADL E200 SFD151AR28GY11070 | B29F | Kidderminster |
KX57OWK | 20530 | ADL E200 SFD111AR17GY10499 | B29F | Kidderminster |
KX57OWO | 20531 | ADL E200 SFD111AR17GY10501 | B29F | Withdrawn 4/23 |
KX57OWP | 20532 | ADL E200 SFD111AR17GY10502 | B29F | Kidderminster |
KX59CZH | 21101 | ADL E200 | B29F | Kidderminster |
MK10YOC | 21102 | ADL E200 SFD1A1AR5AGY11636 | B29F | Kidderminster |
YY15NHX | 21103 | ADL E200 SFD1D1AR6FGY14934 | B29F | Withdrawn 3/20 returned to Minstral 7/20 |
YX65RHA | 21104 | ADL E200 SFD1D1AR6FGY15063 | B29F | Withdrawn 3/20 - returned to Minstral 11/20 |
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.
Registration Number | Fleet Number | Vehicle Chassis | Seating Capacity | Allocation |
BU12LJL | 21105 | ADL E200 SFD1D1AR6CGY13016 | B29F | Tamworth |
BU12LJN | 21106 | ADL E200 SFD1D1AR6CGY13018 | B29F | Kidderminster |
BU12LJV | 21107 | ADL E200 SFD1D1AR6CGY12956 | B29F | Kidderminster |
BU12LJO | 30962 | ADL E200 SFD7E1AR6CGY13037 | B39F | Moved to Diamond NW |
YX63ZXK | 30964 | ADL E200 SFD7E1AR6DGY13940 | B39F | Kidderminster |
YX63ZXL | 30965 | ADL E200 SFD7E1AR6DGY13941 | B39F | Tividale |
YX64VLZ | 30966 | ADL E200 SFD8E1AR6EGY14176 | B33F | Kidderminster |
SK15GYA | 30971 | ADL E200 SFD7E1AR6FGY14912 | B39F | Moved to Diamond NW |
YJ16YJH | 30975 | ADL E200 SFD7S1AR6GGY15618 | B39F | Moved to Diamond NW |
YJ16YJJ | 30976 | ADL E200 SFD7S1AR6GGY15619 | B39F | Moved to Diamond NW |
YJ16YJK | 30977 | ADL E200 SFD7S1AR6GGY15620 | B39F | Moved to Diamond NW |
YY15NHO | 31102 | ADL E200 SFD7E1AR6FGY14946 | B37F | Moved to Hallmark 7/19 and then Diamond NW 9/19 |
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.
Registration Number | Fleet Number | Vehicle Chassis | Seating Capacity | Allocation |
LJ09KPA | 30700 | ADL E200 SFD551AR49GY11163 | B29F | In Store |
LJ09KPX | 30701 | ADL E200 SFD551AR49GY11145 | B29F | In Store |
LJ09KPO | 30702 | ADL E200 SFD551AR49GY11171 | B29F | In Store |
LJ09KOX | 30707 | ADL E200 SFD551AR49GY11151 | B29F | In Store |
LJ09KPE | 30708 | ADL E200 SFD551AR49GY11164 | B29F | Tividale |
LJ09KPF | 30709 | ADL E200 SFD551AR49GY11165 | B29F | In Store |
YX59BYJ | 30710 | ADL E200 SFD5A1AR59GY11366 | B29F | In Store |
YX59BYP | 30711 | ADL E200 SFD5A1AR59GY11372 | B29F | In Store |
YX59BYM | 30712 | ADL E200 SFD5A1AR59GY11369 | B29F | In Store |
YX59BYN | 30713 | ADL E200 SFD5A1AR59GY11370 | B29F | Tividale |
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
Registration Number | Fleet Number | Vehicle Chassis | Seating Capacity | Allocation |
YY15NJJ | 31416 | ADL E200 SFD7E1AR6FGY14959 | B39F | Kidderminster |
YY15NJF | 31417 | ADL E200 SFD7E1AR6FGY14957 | B39F | Burton on Trent |
YY15NJK | 31418 | ADL E200 SFD7E1AR6FGY14960 | B39F | Burton on Trent |
YY16YLK | 31419 | ADL E200 SFD7E1AR6GGY15503 | B39F | Kidderminster |
YY16YLL | 31420 | ADL E200 SFD7E1AR6GGY15504 | B39F | Kidderminster |
SN66WKA | 31421 | ADL E200 SFD751AR6GGY15523 | B39F | Kidderminster |
SN66WJZ | 31422 | ADL E200 SFD751AR6GGY15522 | B39F | Burton on Trent |
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.
Registration Number | Fleet Number | Vehicle Chassis | Seating Capacity | Allocation |
YX12AYZ | 31423 | ADL E200 SFD7E1AR6BGY32766 | B31D | Burton on Trent |
YX12AKK | 31424 | ADL E200 SFD7E1AR6BGY32771 | B31D | Burton on Trent |
YX12DJE | 31425 | ADL E200 SFD5D1AR6CGY32974 | B29D | Burton on Trent |
YX12DJD | 31426 | ADL E200 SFD5D1AR6CGY32973 | B29D | Burton on Trent |
YX12AZW | 31427 | ADL E200 SFD5D1AR6CGY32971 | B29D | Burton on Trent |
KW14MCL | 31428 | ADL E200 SFDA7EBAR6EGY1427 | B29D | Burton on Trent |
JB14MCL | 31429 | ADL E200 SFDA7EBAR6EGY1270 | B39F | Burton on Trent |
JB64MCL | 31430 | ADL E200 SFD8E1AR6EGY14482 | B39F | Burton on Trent |
YY67USO | 31431 | ADL E200 SFD7S1AR6HGY16291 | B39F | Burton on Trent |
YY67USF | 31432 | ADL E200 SFD8S1AR6HGY6481 | B39F | Burton on Trent |
YY67USB | 31433 | ADL E200 SFD8S1AR6HGY16415 | B39F | Burton on Trent |