b12b in may 2006 parent wyn lloyd founded 2001 headquarters machynlleth service area mid wales website www.lloydscoaches.com lloyds coaches 1 operates bus and coach services in mid wales . it is a small family run independent firm . the company is based at the old crosville bus depot opposite machynlleth railway station . it was established in 2001 . 2 contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit plaxton pointer 2 bodied dennis dart slf in machynlleth in september 2014 enviro200 dart and optare solo at the companies depot in september 2014 lloyds coaches was formed in 2001 by former crosville cymru and arriva buses wales employee wyn lloyd . 3 the company began operations from a site in machynlleth and acquired the former crosville motor services garage in 2002 . the garage was briefly shared with arriva buses wales before the larger company moved away from the site . a powys county council contracted route between machynlleth and dinas mawddwy was awarded to the company and private hire work was also operated . six further routes were acquired in may 2004 . 4 the company expanded gradually over the following few years . coaching operations were increased with the purchase of new vehicles and the introduction of rail replacement work first for central trains and later arriva trains wales . route 34 one of the six routes won in 2004 was improved with the introduction of a clockface timetable between machynlleth and aberllefenni and is now run on a largely commercial basis . 4 in june 2010 an hourly route x28 between machynlleth and aberystwyth was launched after arriva buses wales withdrew its similar but shorter route 28 . in december 2010 two hourly x29 linking tywyn to machynlleth was introduced . the company gained pace with their expansion process and soon acquired the majority of services in the dolgellau area as well as the 28 service along the coast between dolgellau and tywyn . on 5 september 2011 the x28 and the x29 services were rebranded as the coastliner services operating under the brand name of the cambrian coastliner coast to coast network . 5 from april 2012 a new strategic bus network was unveiled including a new x27 service between dolgellau and machynlleth every two hours linking into the x28 coastliner service . service 522 was also renumbered x26 with services 34 and 34a re timed for better connections at machynlleth with other strategic services . on 24 september 2012 the company began operating on the t2 trawscymru service in conjunction with the welsh government as a replacement to the x32 service previously operated by arriva buses wales . see also edit list of bus operators of the united kingdom references edit companies house extract company no 7106672 lloyds coaches limited poole brian 2009 . montgomery s buses an empire of independents . usk oakwood press . pp. 105 17 . isbn 978 0 85361 694 8 . a life on the buses with lloyds coaches of machynlleth daily post 26 june 2013 a b jenkins david february 2011 . making money in machynlleth . buses . ian allan publishing 671 32 39 . cambrian coastliner coast to coast lloyds coaches external links edit company website wikimedia commons has media related to lloyds coaches . v t e bus operators in wales companies arriva buses wales bath bus company cardiff bus edwards coaches express motors first cymru lloyds coaches nat group newport transport richards bros stagecoach south wales tanat valley coaches long distance megabus national express trawscymru retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lloyds coaches & oldid 680873096 categories bus operators in walescompanies based in powyshidden categories use dmy dates from september 2015commons category with page title same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 13 september 2015 at 18 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view