Obviously I picked the wrong time of the day to visit Cardiff Bus Station, better to get there first thing in the morning but it was a great place to take photos, so much variety and even in the Nineties. Many of the old operators I remember from the Sixties still called but most had changed both names and livery like this two-tone blue and white Islwyn East-Lancs bodied Tiger which in the old days would have been maroon like much of the other buses found here and run by West Mon which was more memorable to everyone except the 'locals'.
In earlier years route 36 (Cardiff - Tredegar) was operated jointly by Cardiff Corporation (maroon livery), Caerphilly UDC (green livery) and West Mon Board (maroon livery) to an hourly headway over the near two hour journey time route. Later, West Mon became Islwyn Borough Transport, the other operators dropped out and so Islwyn maintained the route using two buses from Blackwood. This led to an uneven headway ranging between hourly and three hours.
ReplyDeleteYes I rode on those lovely lowbridge Massey bodied Titans of Caerphilly, being a Massey and Leyland fan this was obvously my favorite Welsh Municipal although Bedwas and Machin were in the same league.
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