Ashes Building, Old Lane,

Holbrook Ind Estate,

Halfway, Sheffield,

S20 3GZ

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The Crucial Difference - Since 1982

Welcome to the Stardes News and Information Page

In the green room we invite you to join us in remembering tours past and present, where we’ve been and where we are going, new vehicles and new ideas...

Spend a little time looking through the bits and pieces of memorabilia we have collected and photo’s of places we have been

New Units Join Stardes Fleet

We have had two new tractor and trailer units delivered and only just in time ‘cos within a day they were out on tour. The two tractor units are called “Sir Nigel Gresley” and “Evening Star” after the memorable steam trains, the latter being the last steam locomotive to be built in Britain.

The Stardes Winter Tour

When we tour in winter the job sometimes becomes very difficult and we see some interesting sights, so we decided to send a camera out on this one. Click on the picture below to launch a slide show of our photographic journal of this tour.

Stardes ‘Stars’ in FTA Video

Whilst on tour with ‘Ne-Yo’ a film crew from the FTA tagged along just to see how we did things, click here to view the video.

Bring on The Sun

Even though it feels that we only go on tour in the cold weather, we sometimes need to warm up so, here are a few snaps of a tour in the sun.

Stardes gets in anywhere

Here are a few snaps we’ve taken just to show the amount of room that we sometimes have to squeeze our trucks into venues. Sometimes even we didn’t think it would go!

Well thanks for looking, please check back soon for current news and updates.

 

The Winter of 2010

We all remember the beginning of the year, the chaos and havoc caused by a little snow!!! Well, look at the pictures just to see what we had to cope with!!

More New Trucks For Us

One of our main consideration’s when we looking for new vehicles are the emissions, this is why once again Stardes chose DAF.

When DAF launched their Enhanced Environmentally-friendly Vehicle engines (EEV), we felt that this was the right way to go.

These state-of-the-art engines dramatically lower emission levels below those required by Euro 5 standards. By combining DAF SCR technology with a passive soot filter, particle emissions are reduced to levels even lower than most gas-fuelled engines - approaching the proposed Euro 6 Levels.

This is good news for the enviroment and good news for Stardes.

A quote from DHS “we’re not quite as green as grass, but we’re getting there!”

Our New “Loco”

Like all our tractor units our latest has been named after a great steam loco.

The “Dominion of Canada” was one of the great LNER Class A4 steam locomotive’s, completed in May 1937, she was withdrawn from service in May 1965 and since May 1966 has been preserved by the CRHA at the Canadian Railway Museum at Delson/Saint-Constant, Quebec, near Montreal.