TrawsCambria

X32
Overview
Operator	Arriva Buses Wales
Predecessors	701
Route
Start	Bangor
Via	Caernarfon Porthmadog Dolgellau Machynlleth
End	Aberystwyth
Service
Level	Mondays-Saturdays

X40
Overview
Operator	Arriva Buses Wales
Predecessors	540 701
Route
Start	Aberystwyth
Via	Aberaeron Lampeter Llandysul
End	Carmarthen
Service
Level	Daily

X50
Overview
Operator	Richards Brothers
Route
Start	Cardigan
End	Aberaeron / Aberystwyth
Service
Level	Monday-Saturday

X50
Overview
Operator	Richards Brothers
Route
Start	Cardigan
Via	New Quay
End	Aberystwyth
Service
Level	Monday-Saturday

550
Overview
Operator	Richards Brothers
Route
Start	Cardigan
Via	Aberporth New Quay
End	Aberystwyth
Service
Level	Monday-Saturday

X94
Overview
Operator	GHA Coaches
Route
Start	Wrexham
Via	Llangollen Bala Dolgellau
End	Barmouth
Service
Level	Daily

704
Overview
Operator	Stagecoach South Wales
Route
Start	Newtown
Via	Llandrindod Wells
End	Brecon
Service
Level	Daily

TrawsCambria is the brand name for a network of medium and long distance express bus routes in Wales sponsored by the Welsh Government. From 2012 most of these were replaced by the TrawsCymru network.

TrawsCambria started in 1979 as the branded experimental coach service route 700 Cardiff to Bangor via Brecon, Builth Wells, Llandrindod Wells, Newtown, Machynlleth, Dolgellau, Porthmadog and Caernarfon. The initial trial summer service operated Fridays to Mondays only with one coach in each direction on the 230-mile route, with walk-on fares. By August duplicate and triplicate operations occurred which resulted in the Welsh Office approving the continuation of the service through the winter.

The following spring saw the 700 service run daily, joined by:

After three years the network continued to run without any subsidy although daily operation on the 700 and 702 routes was cut to Friday-Monday in winter. Later TrawsCambria 702 was withdrawn.

The TrawsCambria name and the original red and green logo was a registered service mark jointly owned by National Welsh Omnibus Services of Cardiff and Crosville Motor Services of Chester. Traws, pronounced to rhyme with 'house', is the Welsh equivalent for 'cross' as in cross-country. Therefore, TrawsCambria was roughly equivalent to 'cross-Cambria' or 'trans-Cambria' in English.

In the late 1980s TrawsCambria also crossed bridges and ran daily to the Isle of Anglesey in the north and Bristol in the south. Following privatisation of the National Bus Company subsidiaries, modifications and cut backs resulted. While profits could be made most of the year, November and February low patronage always resulted in knife edge annual performance.

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