Double Deck Vehicles - Low Floor

 32627/44/5/6 KP54KAO/AZG/L

KP54KAO arrived at Worcester from Leicester in September 2011 in exchange for single deck KX05MGY that went in the opposite direction. With changes to school bus requirements at both Redditch and Worcester garages from September 2011 33404 and 33405 moved from Worcester back Redditch and KP54KAO was moved to Worcester to maintain 3 low floor double decker at Worcester. KP54KAO was part of a batch of 24 split initially between Northampton, Bath and Leicester garages with 9 at Northampton, 3 at Bath and the remainder at Leicester. At the time other than the one at Worcester 2 were still at Northampton, the 3 that were at Bath had moved to Western super Mare and the remainder were at Leicester. After the arrival at Worcester KP54KAO spent most of it's time on the service 144. With the requirement for two double deckers at Hereford for the start of the School year in September 2013 32644 and 32646 were loaned to Worcester from Leicester. This was to cover for 33042 and 33043 which were loaned to Hereford Garage whilst the planned vehicles 32852 and 32854 were prepared for service. 32646 was withdrawn on 20th February 2023 on expiry of its MOT and was replaced by 37147 which was transferred from First Cymru. Similarly when the MOT on 32645 expired on 26th May 2023 this was replaced by 37148 again transferred from South Wales, 32644 was finally withdrawn from Worcester depot on Friday 26th April 2024 as the MOT on the vehicles was about to expiry. 32644 had the distinction of being the last vehicle in everyday service running in the Barbie livery.

Various For London Dennis Tridents 

A pair of Dennis Tridents LN51GOC and LN51GOE appeared at Redditch in late July 2012. The vehicles are numerically the first 2 of a batch of 28 vehicles built in 2002 for Transport for London contracts. The vehicles were built with a dual door arrangement and had been operated by First Capital Ltd Rainham depot and were used on the service 607 from Uxbridge to White City. The vehicles were originally used on the service 207 but when this was converted to articulated buses in 1995 these Dennis Tridents were transferred to the 607. On re-tendering of the service in 2012 First retained the route and from 7th April 2012 brand new Wrights bodied double deckers were introduced. In a quest to improve the quality of vehicles  used by many of their subsidiary companies the displaced double deckers have under gone an extensive refurbishment including painting in the latest corporate livery and the removal of the centre doors. The temporary entry into service with First Midland Red will allow the withdrawal of a number of step entrance vehicles. In August 2013 32852 and 32854 were acquired for use on a school contract at Hereford, the first double deckers in the allocation since the early 1980's. Both vehicles required work on them before they entered service 33042 and 33043 were loaned to Hereford Garage and 32644 and 32646 were loaned to Worcester garage from Leicester.

 33401-5 VX54MTV/Y/Z/UA/B

In November 2004 Firstgroup announced a major vehicle order for a total of 125 new low floor buses from Alexander Dennis at a total cost of £15M. As part of the order First Wyvern are to receive a total of 46 new vehicles which include five 10.7-metre Dennis Trident double deckers out of a total of ten ordered. The other five are for First Devon and Cornwall and will be bodied by East Lancs. As a result of this First Wyvern took delivery of it's first new double deck vehicles on Friday 26th November 2004. Double deck vehicles have never figured very much in the fleet but to allow both the conversion of normal bus routes in Redditch to low floor operation and the flexibility of higher capacities on one vehicle for school services a number of these Alexander Dennis have joined the fleet. Initially the vehicles were put into store at Worcester Garage awaiting preparation for service together with staff training for both drivers and engineers. The vehicles are built to the standard First Group vehicle specification both inside and external livery. The first three vehicles were joined on 3rd December 2004 by a further two vehicles 33404 and 33405. Currently the Redditch Union will not allow type training to start on the vehicles because they are not fitted with periscopes and FMR policy on the alternative CCTV equipment is not to switched on. The company would rather to wait until there are problems and then use the CCTV equipment. As the vehicles to be used on school services such as S57 and S58 the union are understandably not happy! To cover a need for extra vehicles at First Leicester 33401-5 were placed on loan from 8th December 2004 pending their introduction at Redditch and they are being used mainly on their services 14 and 14A. All five vehicles were licensed at Worcester before being sent on loan to First Leicester. Non of the vehicles currently carry any legal lettering though each has a type written notice in the front near side window saying on hire to First Leicester. 33405 to Redditch on Friday 28th January 2005 where together with sister Enviro 67643 it was used for the launch of the new vehicles in Redditch. 33405 returned back to Redditch on Thursday 10th February 2005 for promotional use during the visit of the Minister for Transport. After a period at First Leicester the vehicles have moved to First Northampton during March and April 2005. During December 2005 the vehicles gradually started to enter service at Redditch. Due to continued problems with trees the vehicles are only allowed to operate on services 57 and 58. Drivers are under instruction not to deviate off of the registered routes without specific permission. By 8th February 2006 all five vehicles were operating from Redditch Garage. On 25th June 2006 route branding for the redline services 57/8  was added to all five vehicles. It was decided during the Summer of 2008 that 33401 and 33405 would be re-allocated to Worcester Garage and so the route branding was removed. During July 2009 33402 and 33404 moved to Worcester in exchange for 67601 and 67602.

33863 and 33864 were part of an order for 60 vehicles from Alexander Dennis that took the fleet numbers 33831 to 33890 and as they were new in the summer of 2014, they joined the First Games Fleet for use on the contract for transport First had for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. After use on the Games contract the vehicles soon joined their intended operating unit of First South Yorkshire. The vehicles settled down normal service in South Yorkshire. With the introduction of new electric vehicles, the many of the existing fleet was surplus and has been cascaded to other first group companies. 33863 and 33864 arrived in the Worcester fleet over the weekend of the 20th and 21st March Both vehicles required very little preparation and entered service on Monday 22nd March. The most obvious change was the removal of the Sheffield fleet names. In the middle of July 2024 a further seven vehicles from the same batch moved from South Yorkshire to Worcester. During the first week of August 2024 sister vehicles 33859 and 33862 arrived at Worcester from Bath depot. With the arrival of 33861 on 13th August from Bath Worcester now has the whole batch from 33859 to 33870 made up of vehicles transferred from Sheffield and Bath depots.  Ironically the movement of the ADL 400s to Worcester was part of a plan to make the Worcester depot totally ADL vehicle operated. In moving the E400s from First West Yorkshire this meant that that this was the first time for 64 years that there had not been a Dennis or Alexander vehicle in that fleet. 

On Friday 29th May 2015 First announced it had ordered 385 new vehicles for 2015 of which 65 are Wrightbus StreetDeck and 183 are Wrightbus StreetLite. Of the order Worcester was due to have 13 of the StreetLite single deckers for the service 44 from Worcester to Great Malvern. However following a review of the route and usage it was decided to divert 4 of the single deckers to First Leicester in exchange for 4 of their double deckers from their pat of the order. This meant Worcester would get it’s first new double deckers since November 1967 where DD12 Daimler Double Decker fleet numbers 6092-6096 were delivered new and allocated to the garage . Much has been said on other internet sites that the Tridents 30401-5 were in fact the last new double deckers This was not the case as whilst they were used on a Worcester Park and Ride they were purchased for Redditch but did enter service there because of union dispute and in fact there first temporary home until the dispute was resolved was First Leicester (see section on 33401-5 for details).  35156 arrived at Worcester on 11th September 2015 and the other soon followed and the work to prepare them for service started including fitting of branding for the 44 route. 35158 was the first to be completed and one of the first uses was to represent Firstgroup at an pre awards event at the Wythall Transport Museum on the 8th October 2015 for the UK Bus Awards. After a period of testing, driver training and cutting of trees in the Malvern area the vehicles all entered service on Monday 16th November 2015. With introduction of electric vehicles at the Leicester depot during the summer of 2023 a number of vehicles from same batch as the ones at Worcester depot were moved from Leicester to Worcester. The vehicles arrived in their livery for the service 14 and this was removed before entry to service Worcester but the vehicles retained their red based fleet livery.