Weston-super-Mare is staffed and last time I was there (a few years ago) a cafe/bar occupied part of the buildings.
But the trains serving Barry Island will continue to have toilets, so the provision of additional toilets is a much lower priority, surely?
Not any more. Been gone a while.
I agree: the "local war museum" that has occupied much of the original station building does not add much to the immediate area. The Vale of Glamorgan Council has been trying to market the building (a 2020 online newspaper article here - text below). I don't know what came of that. It's a great pity, since it is one of the few original buildings on the Valleys network in something like its original condition - canopies and all - and could be a real asset. Despite is busyness, the immediate area is still quite scruffy and in need of improvement. In contrast, the area around the old Pumphouse (closer to the town and part of the Barry Waterfront development area) is now doing well.
Good to see that they have got on three people who are positive about solving the traffic problem and not the usual pro-car lobby.
I'd be amazed if anyone could make Barry Island look anything other than dilapidated and run down, frankly.
The station is the original Victorian building and should really be listed and renovated.
Eventually plus the aberdare to Hirwaun section is supposed to be converted to a tramway when the extension opens to get round the issues with the level crossings
Supposed to be a link.cominng off the Bay branch near callanghan Square dropping down to road level before running on street to a new set of platforms in the car park on the southern side of Cardiff Central Station
My great-great grandfather was the gamekeeper for the estate that included Barry Island before it was developed in the 1860s, and took my great-grandfather to shoot rabbits there. My great grandfather later became a driver on the Barry Railway...
Will you forgive them when the shiny new 398s are running,or will you have bought a car and given up on public transport by then?
This is what happens when a major upgrade is put in place. I live on the same line and it's frustrating, but having a tantrum and using caps is absolutely to neither your benefit or anyone else's. And as @Llanigraham says, what expertise makes you so certain you know that the delays are down to "incompetence?"
WOW!!
I think the point that is being made is that to discover an embankment problem so late in the work, or so it would appear, after several extensions to the finish date asks the question how could this be discovered so late? Or on the other hand why do you keep giving new completion dates, surely you should be at a stage when you know what is left to do and the issues that may affect this work. I can see why the travelling public would not be impressed.
Well, it's an opinion and you're entitled to it. Every survey and poll though shows that people in Wales have far more confidence in the Welsh government than the UK one. Out of interest, why do you use the term "pseudo agencies"? I'm not sure what you mean by that.
Pseudo agencies - sorry I was meaning things under Welsh government influence/control but not part of government so NHS, TfW. We could discuss the polls further but that would be to go off topic.
Compare this with Network Rail's repair of the bridge over the Thames between Didcot and Oxford. They gave an accurate estimate of when it would be completed and the line actually opened a day earlier.
However, that was an emergency closure when the work they were planning to do didn't fix the problem - if all had gone as planned there would have been no closure at all. With civil engineering, particularly when old earthworks are involved, there is a risk of finding unforeseen problems regardless of whose network they are on.