Wrights streetlite

20176-84/6

As part of on an ongoing process to upgrade the vehicles based at Heathrow Airport operating a shuttle bus networks of the hotels in the area under the Hotel Hoppa brand that was acquired from National Express a number of years ago. The services used a fleet of Enviro 200's that are fitted out internally with additional luggage facilities and reduced seating capacities. To gradually  replace these vehicles a fleet of short wheelbase Wrights Streetlites have been acquired. With the issues around Covid 19 the demand for the shuttle services have reduced so the latest five new vehicles have been temporarily allocated to Kidderminster Garage. The aim is to understand if new vehicles allocated to Kidderminster service whether this stimulates additional passenger demand. If it does then it is planned new vehicles will be allocated to the garage when these five vehicles finally moved to Heathrow Airport.   

32212-19/307-24

To introduce further new vehicles to the Redditch operation Diamond acquired a further eight brand new Wrights Streetlites in February 2016. These vehicles were introduced into service from February 2015 and were initially deployed on the routes 57 and 58. Delivery of the vehicles was delayed following a decision to include more space for buggies as well as the required single wheelchair space. The vehicles were delivered to Redditch from the Wrights factory in Ireland via the ferry at Heysham in all over blue with the logos and branding being added before the vehicles entered service.  In April 2016 a further four vehicles were added to the fleet and were Tividale in April 2016. However to meet the requirement of the Signature contract in Solihull these vehicles were soon moved to Redditch to operate routes in Solihull. In March 2020 32307-10 moved from Redditch back to Tividale for use on the joint service 40 with National Express West Midlands. Also during that month a further 8 Euro VI Streetlites joined the Tividale fleet for use on key routes at the garage such as 4,4H and 16/16A.

32221-38/40 

To introduce further new vehicles Euro VI vehicles into the Diamond Bus operation a further 17 brand new Wrights Streetlites entered the fleet in February 2018. The batch of vehicles were split across the three operating depots with the Redditch one for the service 50 in South Birmingham, the Kidderminster ones for the service 125 and the Tividale ones for the service 002. To allow Diamond to provide Euro VI standard vehicles for the new 40 partnership route in West Bromwich with National Express West Midlands two further vehicles were allocated to the West Midlands fleet 32238/40. These vehicles had been used as demonstrators by Wrights Bus and in joining the Rotala fleet had intially been used in the Diamond North West fleet. Both vehicles were painted in West Midlands Bus red livery.