Ticket and Fare Options

For most travel itineraries, except the shortest, it is best to buy an all day ticket, available from the driver on the bus. Train tickets must be bought at the station; if the ticket office is close; buy them from the train conductor on board. For some itineraries, we have suggested Plus Bus; these are bus tickets sold at train stations and allowing all day bus travel within defined areas from destination train station.

First Cymru buses  have a series of day rover tickets for the area, as follows:

First Day Neath Port Talbot for unlimited travel for a day within the county boundaries
£4.00 adult; £2.80 child; £8.50 family of four.

First Day Swansea Bay for unlimited travel for a day in the wider Swansea Bay area including to most of the Valleys of Neath Port Talbot, Mumbles and Pennard. £4.40 adult; £2.80 child; £9.00 family of four.

First Day Bridgend & County for unlimited travel from Port Talbot to Porthcawl, Bridgend and Maesteg.
£4.90 adult; £2.80 child; £10.00 family of four.

Weekly versions of these tickets are available at around four times the cost of a day ticket.

First Single & Return tickets are usually cheaper for journeys under about 5 miles

Veolia Transport Cymru buses on route X63 will sell the Powys Day Rover at £7.50 adult (£5.00 child) giving unlimited travel in a day along the entire route and onward connections from Brecon to Storey Arms for Pen y Fan; Abergavenny, Talgarth, Hay on Wye & Builth Wells all on the same ticket.

Train tickets are available from the ticket office at Port Talbot station; or, when closed, from the conductor on the train. Local single (one-way) and day return tickets are exceptionally good value between Port Talbot and Neath, Swansea, Bridgend and Cardiff. Special circular day ranger tickets are available to the Heart of Wales line, returning to Port Talbot via Shrewsbury and Cardiff; price £28 (summer 2010).

Train Plus Bus tickets: If you are travelling to the Vale of Neath or Dulais Valley using the train from Port Talbot to Neath, buy a Neath Plus Bus . If travelling to Swansea city destinations (including Mumbles and Pennard), buy a Swansea Plus Bus  with your train ticket. Both tickets cost £2.50 additional to the train fare.