Service area South Wales Depots 6 Headquarters Penlan Fleet 387 | Service type Bus & coach services Parent organization FirstGroup Founded April 1995 | |
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Website www.firstgroup.com/south_west_wales/ | ||
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First Cymru is an operator of bus services in South Wales. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup with its headquarters in Penlan, Swansea.
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History
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.
Operations
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.
Unibus
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.
Park and Ride
First Cymru operates park & ride sites, which are located at Fabian Way and Landore in Swansea and Nant-Y-Ci in Carmarthen. They also operate a summer park & ride in Tenby.
X10
First Cymru operate an hourly shuttle service between Cardiff, Bridgend Designer Outlet and Swansea called the X10. This replaced a Greyhound UK service in December 2015.
Cymru Clipper
In 2014, First Cymru started the Cymru Clipper express network which spans from Carmarthen to Cardiff.
Services X1, X2, X3, X4, X11, X13, X50, X51, X55 and X58 are encompassed into this network. Dedicated vehicles operate these services, with the majority of them offering WiFi and leather seats as standard.
Swansea Metro
First Cymru operate a bus rapid transport route between Singleton Hospital, Swansea University, Swansea City Centre and Morriston Hospital as Swansea Metro. On 28 August 2015 the fleet of Wright StreetCar articulated buses that operated the service were replaced by conventional buses and had lost the FTRmetro branding.
National Express
Until July 2012 First Cymru were a National Express contractor and operated services on routes:
Fleet
As at March 2014 the fleet consisted of 387 buses and coaches.
Depots
First Cymru operate eight depots in Bridgend, Cardiff, Haverfordwest, Llanelli, Port Talbot, Tycroes, Maesteg and Ravenhill.