I use the luas and the dart regularly, they are both perfectly ok for short hops and journeys up to half hour, 40 minutes at a stretch, over that I’ll take the creature comforts of heavy rail, plonking trams on the tam valley lines where journey times can be over hour is a pointless downgrade. The flirts that run up there now are perfectly fine.
The flirts might be perfectly fine, but they are a stop-gap measure and were never intended to run on the route.
True, but you'd never see 3 car 197s running instead of 398s, it would only be FLIRTs which all have one.
The 398 top speed is only 60mph, no idea of the comparative accelerations, but surly it cant be more than few seconds 0 to 60 quicker than a flirt.
It's noticeably quicker to 60. Best place to feel it so far is Llandaff to Cathays as the line speed allows for full acceleration out of the platform. Will be great on the Treherbert line where some of the stops are quite close together, and hopefully when they bed in will allow more stations to be built.
Agree.
I am inclined to agree. Line of sight also means a lower speed to allow for stopping within range of sight. The standard signalling on the heavy rail sections would most likely be essential to allow speeds to stay higher than on road.
Oh I expect the 398s accelerate really well. If anything like the trams in Croydon then hold on tightly when on off street sections !.
My italics - dare I infer the disruption is just for today......
Tis a bit cringe worthy.
I believe that was posted on a different forum, namely the South Wales Metro updates. It may be on here as well but it's hard to follow specific talking points with all the noise caused by reactions to one specific poster.
The "Sunday special" Butetown service isn't due to start till 13th December with the national timetable change, as already stated by previous posters on the South Wales Metro thread and now shown in Realtime Trains.
Ah, ha. Sorry I overlooked that date
Why can't they send the Sprinter to the bay and back 4 times per hour? The service is now in the realms of embarrassing, it's a one mile shuttle between 2 stations for god's sake.
I’m sure it’s not as simple as we only need 1 unit so let’s run it back and fore 4 times an hour all day. Said unit has to be staffed by both drivers and guards all day from 6 in the morning to after midnight. Driver and guard rosters throughout the day would have to be altered not just for when working the Bay branch but for any other valley lines services the staff might have found themselves working later in the day. Seems simple ask on the face of it but the reality is anything but.
Show did ATW manage to do 5tph back in the day? It can't be insurmountable.
It almost certainly isn't. But "back in the day" is based on a previous timetable, with associated rosters. If you change one bit, others change too
Plenty of Bay shuttles showing today on RTT
Lack of shower curtains
