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    Trawscymru Service News

    The status of this registration now seems to have changed to 'Withdrawn'. The 'effective date' of 1st April doesn't seem to tie up with the expected contract renewal dates either (which, for the T11, is not until November) although according to that the T5 contract was up at the end of Jan. and...
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    Trivia: Rare and unusual bus and coach types

    Is YJ14 CCV still the only VDL SB200 with an MCV Evolution body?
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    Trawscymru Service News

    Definitely not the only example of this - when Arriva withdrew from Aberystwyth what would become the T5 was diverted via New Quay to replace the Arriva service 50 between Aberystwyth and New Quay (via Synod Inn). Doing so probably made a huge amount of financial sense, but made...
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    Trawscymru Service News

    Is TrawsCymru a QuANGO like TfW or just a brand name? I know there is a 'TrawsCymru Network Manager' (I believe his name is David Hall) but who is his employer?
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    Trawscymru Service News

    I can't remember if it was T2 vehicles or other services, but I'm pretty sure I've seen Lloyds buses using the petrol station at Aberystwyth Morrisons to refuel in the past. With Bwcabus going and various bus routes seeing cuts recently (the ones I'm aware of being the 349...
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    Trawscymru Service News

    Indeed I did. Quite possibly in the National Transport Delivery Plan (page 64) which also mentions hydrogen buses for the T6. Why the contradition between that document and the more-recent press release?
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    Pembrokeshire CC - Bus Operators Taken In-House

    Thanks; glad to hear it.
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    Pembrokeshire CC - Bus Operators Taken In-House

    As I said, I have very little recent experience; it's possible they're not as good as they used to be. Certainly, they used to have the domain gobybus.net which could be thought of as innovative promotion but they have now let that lapse by the looks of things. Or maybe the St. Davids routes...
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    Pembrokeshire CC - Bus Operators Taken In-House

    Admittedly I've not been out on the buses much for a few years now for a number of reasons (COVID restrictions being one of them for a good chunk of that time) so have very little recent experience, but back when I was using them fairly often I would not have described Richards Bros as a "low...
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    Trawscymru Service News

    Interesting that the latest press release says new electric buses for the whole network; I thought I read somewhere that the T5 was going to have hydrogen buses instead.
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    Trawscymru Service News

    11 new single deckers, will these be electric I wonder? With the Welsh Government having some fairly ambitious targets for an entirely zero-emission bus fleet it seems a bit late in the day to be ordering more diesel buses. Also, does this mean the T3 no longer justifies the double deckers that...
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    Pembrokeshire CC - Bus Operators Taken In-House

    I understand that Pembrokeshire County Council acquired the assets of Edwards Bros (Tiers Cross) at some time over the past year. However, during a recent Zoom meeting one of the other participants said that she believed that the council had taken over at least two bus operators. My efforts with...
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    Trawscymru Service News

    Some of those routes (at least 460 and T11 and probably many more) are/were branded TrawsCymru Connect not just TrawsCymru. Not sure why some of the 'Connect' routes were renumbered with T prefixes and others weren't. I have a feeling the 460 wasn't included when the TrawsCymru weekend free...
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    Poor experience on Trawscymru T1A service

    Are there no other buses to Tregaron anymore? No 585 and no T??s (I forget the numbers, but when I was at university in Aberystwyth I'm 99% sure there was at least one service, possibly two or three, operated by Evans Coaches of Tregaron and numbered with a T prefix* (I think the numbers were in...
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    TrawsCambria / TrawsCymru

    Since they have published the statistics previously, they should have no grounds for objecting if you submit a Freedom Of Information request asking for them to be published again.
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    TrawsCambria / TrawsCymru

    Assuming you mean 2-hourly (every two hours) and not two services each running hourly (ie. 2 trains per hour) then you could run the trains clockface every two hours all the way to Blaenau Ffestiniog. It would require two units but, provided the passing loop at North Llanrwst is functional...
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    TrawsCambria / TrawsCymru

    Both the T11 and T12 are shown on the TrawsCymru route map as 'TrawsCymru Connect' services (although other pages on the website do describe them without the word 'connect'). As such, I have no problem with them being existing local bus services. To me at least, that is exactly what the...
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    TrawsCambria / TrawsCymru

    Do passengers have to change bus on the T4? Pre-COVID at least (I've not been out much since), the T5 was split to such an extent that you often had to change bus in Cardigan (there may have been the odd one that worked through, which did happen occasionally before TrawsCymru when the...
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    TrawsCambria / TrawsCymru

    The timetables available online (dated 27th June (M-F) and 2nd July (SAT)) show no T5 services to the university on Saturdays and only two Mondays to Fridays. Are you trying to tell us that these final two runs to the university have also been discontinued? If not, then you may be correct about...
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    TrawsCambria / TrawsCymru

    Richards Bros' website is now showing new timetables for the T5 from 27th June. The 'links' to download a PDF at the top of the T5 new timetable page don't seem to be working, but if you scroll down there are JPEG versions there. I haven't had a detailed look, but there is one obvious change...

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