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A year and a half into the Cymru Express service, there seem to be a mix of good and not so good things about it: THE GOOD - they've kept it running without a subsidy from the taxpayer - it's faster than trawscambria was - coach service to mcarthur glen and cardiff is very comfortable...

Still no sign of any new buses on the Cymru Express

re the 41, there's a new scheduled bwcabus service Llandysul - Pencader, with morning journeys out and afternoon journeys back. I think it's supposed to connect with the Arriva 40.

anyone know when the new arriva double deckers are arriving for cymru express?

I guess it's a case of we are where we are and maybe Trawscambria needs to be thought through again, maybe becoming more of an overall branding for a network of long distance bus routes, some subsidised and some run commercially. I like the idea of an Aberystwyth-Llandovery-Brecon route...

Arriva's revised timetable for the 40 looks OK to me. Personally, I'm still not too keen on the vehicles they are using, but overall it's a faster and more frequent service than the subsidised Trawscambria service that preceded it. So well done Arriva - anyone know if they're managing to make...

Will we be getting the same specification of bus for Cymru express as Arriva are using for the Cymru coastliner service up in north wales? Those do look quite nice

There does seem to be a problem with late running on Cymru Express. I took two return journeys, Saturday and today, and two of the four legs each ran 15 minutes late. I don't want to knock Arriva and you have to support them for wanting to run an unsubsidised service and make it pay. But...

Disappointing experience on the first day of the new 'Cymru express'. The timetable is much improved but the quality of the vehicles is a lot lower than the Trawscambria services were using. Bench style seating with no headrests, whole interior quite dirty and bus quite noisy. Not very...