Parent Eric Jones Service type Bus services Founded 1908 | Service area Gwynedd Headquarters Penygroes, Gwynedd Fleet 40 | |
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Website www.expressmotors.co.uk Profiles | ||
Express Motors is a bus and coach hire company based in Penygroes, Gwynedd. The company operates public bus services in the Caernarfon, Porthmadog, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Bangor and Llandudno areas, as well as long-distance TrawsCambria service T2 between Bangor and Aberystwyth.
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History
Express Motors was established in 1908. It remains a family-owned business and is owned by Eric Jones. It operated a small number of local bus services alongside its main coach hire work until 1970, when the bus routes were sold to Silver Star.
With bus deregulation in October 1986, Express Motors re-entered the local service market. A local route in Caernarfon was introduced in competition with National Bus Company subsidiary Crosville Cymru May. Contracted work on route 1 (Caernarfon-Blaenau Ffestiniog) was won at the same time as part of the Bws Gwynedd network. The operations of Maldwyn Jones were acquired in 1989. A competing route between Caernarfon and Bangor was introduced in 1991 but withdrawn after four years.
In 2005 the company began a new route linking Llandudno and Blaenau Ffestiniog. Two years later the Welsh Assembly Government granted free rail travel to pensioners on the parallel Conwy Valley Line, causing passenger numbers on the route to be lower than expected.
The four bus services operated Silver Star were taken over by Express Motors with four buses in November 2010 in a move which reversed the events of 1970.
Fleet
As at September 2012 Express Motors operated 25 buses and 15 coaches.