First Cymru

First Cymru

Enviro200 Dart in Maesteg in April 2014
Parent	FirstGroup
Headquarters	Penlan
Service area	South Wales
Service type	Bus & coach services
Depots	6
Fleet	387 (March 2014)
Website	www.firstgroup.com/south_west_wales/

First Cymru is an operator of bus services in South Wales. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup with its headquarters in Penlan, Swansea.

In 1987, South Wales Transport was sold during the privatisation of the National Bus Company in a management buy out.

In February 1990, along with Brewers Motor Services and United Welsh Coaches, South West Transport was sold to Badgerline. All initially retained their trading names but following Badgerline merging with GRT Group in April 1995 to form FirstBus, all Welsh operations were rebranded as First Cymru.

The company operates around 200 bus services in the south Wales area, in and between Haverfordwest, Pembroke, Tenby, Carmarthen, Llanelli, Swansea, Pontardawe, Neath, Port Talbot, Maesteg, Bridgend and Cardiff.

The company operates a bus rapid transit route in Swansea, branded Swansea Metro and a frequent shuttle service from Swansea to Cardiff.

For students of Swansea University, Unibus service 8 links the Hendrefoelan Student Village, Singleton Park Campus and Bay Campus to Swansea City Centre. They also run a half hourly shuttle bus between Singleton Park Campus and Bay Campus called 8X and service 10 linking Singleton Park Campus and Bay Campus with student areas Uplands and Sketty. These replaced the 82a and 85.