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216 Cardiff–Bristol Airport

England-Wales bus route

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ115857789 ↗
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Route 216 is a bus route that operates between Cardiff, Wales, and Bristol Airport, England, via Cardiff University and Newport railway station.

On 11 March 2013, Greyhound UK extended its service from Swansea to Cardiff to terminate at Bristol Airport. However, in February 2015 Greyhound UK announced that the Cardiff to Bristol Airport section would be withdrawn. Route 216 was introduced in March 2015 as a replacement for the Greyhound service. It is operated by Edwards Coaches on behalf of National Express. Route number 216 was chosen to commemorate Concorde 216, the last Concorde aircraft to complete a safe flight.

Six buses operate in each direction per day.

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“216 Cardiff–Bristol Airport” enters the record as england-Wales bus route. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cardiff, Bristol and Airport can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “216 Cardiff–Bristol Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.