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The South Wales valleys were treated to the sights and sounds of old coaching days as the Royal Blue Run travelled from Treherbert to Cheltenham crossing the Valleys via old routes. Photos below were taken in Ystrad Mynach.

Work continues apace to have WW1518 back at its original depot in time for WW90 in September, as can be seen a lot of progress has been made recently.

The Barry Festival of Transport attracted several hundred interesting vehicles to Barry Island on Sunday. Around 180 classic cars and around 240 performance and rally club cars came to the seaside resort. These were supplemented by a lot more visiting heritage and new buses than in previous years. Mike Taylor, the organising chairman of the…

We will be running a regular park and ride service on Sunday from the dock offices in Barry to the Depot and then from the Depot to Barry Island working between 10am and 4:45pm.We have over 500 vehicles attending, a mix of classic cars, buses and commercials.

This weekend on Sunday 9th June there will be a Depot open day and large vehicle display on Barry Island, we will be running free bus services from 10am until 4:45pm between Barry Island and the Bus Depot and a park and ride service from the Dock offices to the Bus Depot. Weather permitting we…

The top coat has been added onto WW1518 and it looks fantastic in original colours, work moves back to the interior now with new flooring & laminate to be added before glazing takes place.

Work on our Western Welsh Leopard has restarted and things are moving quickly, 1518 was new to Barry Depot and in later years was converted to a tow bus the rear quarter being removed in the process. As can be seen a new section has been added, this was removed from a scrap exOxford AEC…

The CTPG visited Swansea Bus Museum on Sunday 24th Feb, we took our National Welsh Olympian as the restoration of Swansea’s SWT Olympian had recently been completed. The photos below show the two preserved South Wales Olympians together almost identical to look at but with very different running gear, one being Gardner/Hydracyclic and the other…

Work has restarted on the restoration of WW1518 our Leyland Leopard ex tow bus now restored to full length, we hope to see some paint on her in the near future.