Streetdeck

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.