South Wales Transport was a bus company that operated services in South Wales centred on Swansea and

West Wales West Wales ( cy, Gorllewin Cymru) is not clearly defined as a particular region of Wales. Some definitions of West Wales include only Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, which historically comprised the Welsh principality of ''Deheub ...

History

South Wales Transport commenced operating on 2 May 1914 in Swansea. It operated bus services that connected with the

Swansea Improvements and Tramway Company The Swansea Improvements and Tramway Company operated street Tram, trams in and around Swansea in Wales from 1878 to 1937. Background Swansea is Wales's second city and was a leader in the Industrial Revolution owing to the ready availability o ...

. It was owned by

British Electric Traction British Electric Traction Company Limited, renamed BET plc in 1985, was a large British industrial conglomerate. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Rentokil in 1996, and the merged company is now known as Rento ...

. In 1937, buses replaced the trams. In 1958, South Wales Transport bought the

Swansea and Mumbles Railway The Swansea and Mumbles Railway was the venue for the world's first passenger horsecar railway service, located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Originally built under an Act of Parliament of 1804 to move limestone from the quarries of Mum ...

which was an electric tram service between Swansea and

Mumbles Mumbles ( cy, Mwmbwls) is a headland sited on the western edge of Swansea Bay on the southern coast of Wales. Toponym Mumbles has been noted for its unusual place name. The headland is thought by some to have been named by French sailors, ...

which closed in 1960. On 1 January 1969, it became part of the National Bus Company. In May 1987, during the privatisation of the National Bus Company, South Wales Transport was sold to a management buy out. It was resold to

Badgerline Badgerline was a bus operator in and around Bristol from 1985 until 2003. Its headquarters were in Weston-super-Mare. Initially a part of the Bristol Omnibus Company, it was privatised in September 1986 and sold to Badgerline Holdings in a manag ...

in 1990. It was included in the 16 June 1995 merger of Badgerline with

GRT Group :''This article describes the bus group, for the Grampian Regional Transport bus company and successors/predecessors, see First Aberdeen'' GRT Group was a bus operating company in the United Kingdom from 1989 until 1995. It was formed when Gr ...

to form FirstBus and became part of

First Cymru First Cymru is an operator of bus services in South West Wales. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup with its headquarters in Swansea. History In 1987, South Wales Transport was sold during the privatisation of the National Bus Company in a man ...

in April 1998.

South Wales Transport (Neath) Limited

The South Wales Transport name has been revived by a bus operator in Neath.Companies House extract company no 5295622
South Wales Transport (Neath) Limited

References

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