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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.

At the end of January the move into Windward Depot was completed following a month of preparation and cleaning, the end result seems to be better than the old Atlantic Depot layout.

The CTPG received the keys to our new building on Barry Dock on 14th December, Windward depot will replace Atlantic depot in the new year.  Luckily for us Windward has a pair of pits, a spray booth and store room already in place and will be very useful to ensure we can keep the fleet…

Pontypridd 8 visited Swansea for the Bus Museums open day at the end of October, the weather was cold and bright as can be seen in the photos.  WW1370 and PTX830F also travelled along the A48 from Barry. No. 8 performed two timetabled runs during the day.

On Sunday 9th September, the Festival of Transport at Merthyr Tydfil Leisure Centre drew the visitors from many parts of The Valleys and some came from Swansea and Devon. Mike Taylor, the Chairman of the Cardiff Transport Preservation Group which organised the event said “It was a slightly mixed day weather wise but with enough…

August road run was around the Vale in PAX before stopping off for liquid refreshments, photo taken near Ogmore.

Photos from the successful trip to Newport in our Leyland PDR1, this was the first time 68 went home since she limped out in 2006 to join the CTPG collection.    On Sunday 12th August we will be taking a trip to Corporation Road, Newport to visit Newport Bus depot, we will be leaving Broad…

Our June & July road runs were undertaken with Cardiff buses both freshly painted, 258 ran into the Vale for a trip around Ogmore and a stop at the Red Lion and 434 performed well on a trip to Cardiff and return via Penarth and Sully to stop at the Cherry Orchard in Barry.

The event attracted large numbers of classic and performance cars and other vehicles to the seaside town. Around 480 visiting vehicles turned up from a 1929 Armstrong Siddeley to the latest Mercedes and buses from the 1950s to the 1980s including double decker buses used on services to Lands End, a Fairford Airshow bus and…