From 1993-1997, I did some part-time coach driving, indulging one of my childhood ambitions.  Here are just some of the coaches and buses I drove.....

Newport Transport Coach 01 (above left) - a beautiful coach to drive, seen in rural Gwent at the start of a daily contract run into Saint John's College, Cardiff. 

Coach 40 (above right), seen in Bristol in July 1996. 

A somewhat less glamorous vehicle (although unusual in its combination of chassis and body) is Newport 14 (below right) - seen in front of the then new site of Saint John's College in Cardiff.

Newport 03 (below left), a solid workhorse,  seen, again, in rural Gwent.

Newport 47, a modern Scania double decker (left) contrasted with older Scania Newport 100 (above left), seen outside the National Museum of Wales, with Cardiff City Hall in the background.  Newport 03 appears again, seen against a backdrop of the Dare Valley Country Park.

Finally, some smaller vehicles.  A Mercedes midibus (left) seen on the A48 between Newport and Cardiff, just before spending a week in West Wales.  A luxuriously appointed Leyland DAF (coachbuilt by Leeds firm Optare) seen (centre and right) at its base in Cardiff (my house at the time!), just about to set out for a week in Devon.