Subject: Western Welsh 849 (CUH 849)
Chassis: Leyland Tiger PS1
Body: ECW B35R
Location: Cardiff bus station
Date: Aug-1956

Western Welsh bought a huge batch of these PS1s - a total of eighty with ECW bodies like 849 were delivered over a period of fourteen months. They introduced a policy of trying to match fleet numbers and registration numbers.

The service to Gwaelod-y-Garth was never very frequent and even in 1956 there were just four return trips a day, with an additional one on schooldays. The village sits under the Garth mountain (the village name translates as "foot of the Garth") and the coal seams outcropped here which, along with the local access to limestone and iron deposits, led to very early industrial development in the area.

From a negative in the David Beilby collection from the RHG Simpson archive