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Tanat Valley Coaches
Leyland Lynx
Founded
1921; 103 years ago (1921)
Headquarters
Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant
Service area
Shropshire and Powys
Service type
Bus and coach
Routes
22
Destinations
Llanfyllin Montgomery Newtown Oswestry Welshpool
Chief executive
Chris Chadd
Website
www.tanat.co.uk
Northern Counties Palatine bodied Leyland Olympian seen on Kiln Street, St Helens, Merseyside, in April 2008
Tanat Valley Coaches operates bus and coach services in Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, in the United Kingdom.
The family-run firm is based in Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant.[1] It also has a depot in the nearby village of Pentrefelin, in addition to Kerry, near Newtown, Powys. The former includes facilities to park vehicles, whilst the latter includes workshop premises and is used to operate services.[2]
In addition to bus and coach operation, Tanat provides private and commercial vehicle service and repair facilities within two large and fully equipped workshops.[3]
It has a wide variety of vehicles of minibuses, midibuses, single-decker buses, double-decker buses and coaches. Tanat Valley operate 22 local public bus services, many of which are contracted by Powys County Council and Shropshire Council. The local councils and schools also contract 34 school buses, which carry approximately 1,560 students every school day. The fleet amounts to approximately 60 vehicles.[1]
During the Covid-19 pandemic the company invested in their maintenance depot and began to offer vehicle MOT and servicing to the general public.[4]
^ abAbout Us Tanat Valley Coaches
^Poole, Brian (2009). Montgomery's Buses: an empire of independents. Usk: Oakwood Press. pp. 105-17. ISBN 978-0-85361-694-8
^Nook Lane Garage, Kerry Tanat Valley Coaches
^"Family-owned coach firm to take over several Oswestry town centre routes". Oswestry & Border Counties Advertiser. 31 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
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