Yorkshire Terrier (bus company)
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| Parent | Stagecoach Group |
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| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England |
| Service area | Sheffield |
| Service type | Bus |
| Hubs | Sheffield, Crystal Peaks, Sheffield Interchange, Meadowhall Interchange, Woodhouse, Halfway Hillsborough Interchange |
| Stations | Sheffield Interchange, Meadowhall |
| Fleet |
ADL Dart SLF ADL Enviro200 ADL Enviro400H MAN 18.220 MAN 18.240 Optare Solo Scania N94UD Scania N230UD VDL SB200 Volvo B7TL |
| Operator | Stagecoach Group |
| Website | Official Website |
Stagecoach Sheffield is a bus operator based in Sheffield, England, a subsidiary of the Stagecoach Group. It was formed from the Sheffield-based operations of the Yorkshire Traction Group, purchased by Stagecoach in 2005. Most bus services in Sheffield are operated by Stagecoach Sheffield or First South Yorkshire.
Stagecoach Sheffield services are marketed alongside the Sheffield Supertram, operated by Stagecoach since 1997. Stagecoach Sheffield also operate the related SupertramLink bus.
The Yorkshire Traction Group was a large independent bus operator that had grown out of bus deregulation in the UK. The Yorkshire Traction company had been privatised in 1987 as one of the National Bus Company, and from its base in Barnsley, as the Traction Group had gone on to expand its operations across West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Tayside, as well as buying up small operators in Sheffield.
Yorkshire Terrier was an independent post-deregulation bus company that had been formed in 1988 operating in Sheffield, and had also expanded itself with acquisition of some smaller operators within Sheffield.
In 1995, Terrier was bought by the Traction Group, and by 1998 all of their combined operations in Sheffield had been brought under the Terrier green and white identity (although trading as Andrews of Sheffield, one of Traction's Sheffield acquisitions).
On 14 December 2005 Stagecoach Group purchased the Yorkshire Traction Group, and by May 2006 the Terrier fleet was being converted into the Stagecoach Sheffield identity.
In June 2006, fourteen new buses arrived in Sheffield and entered service in July. These included ten brand new Dennis Dart SLF vehicles with pink "Route 88" branding, along with four other Dart SLFs from Stagecoach Manchester. Buses on routes 52, 83 and 120 also received the new "Route ---" branding, in sky-blue, blue and lime green respectively.
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