First Cymru M111 PWN at Cardiff - 26 Feb 2001

Monday 26 February 2001 (approx. 1545) – When I took this photograph in Cardiff bus station of First Cymru Buses 111 (M111 JWN), I didn’t realise I had already seen it at Heathrow Airport earlier in the day. It had worked the 0510 National Express ‘Flightlink’ service 202 from Swansea to Heathrow (Terminal 4) arriving at 1040. It then worked the 1155 service 202 due in Cardiff at 1535. In March 1996 National Express acquired the Manchester-Birmingham-Heathrow-Gatwick express coach services of Birmingham based Flight’s Travel Group which included the ‘Flightlink’ brand name. The branding was expanded to cover a number of National Express services that linked different regions of Britain with key airports including the services from South Wales. A Plaxton Expressliner bodied Dennis Javelin new in 1995.