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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 Later TrawsCambria 702 was withdrawn.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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