Recent content by Hwnt52

Bearing in mind that little work has been done on the Rhymney line north of Caerphilly for months and months I also wondered if electrication was being cut back or 'descoped'. However it may be that financial constraints are behind all this. Delay expenditure until the next financial year...

There are no masts up north of Llanishen apart from the few at Pontlottyn which were erected some months ago. If fact there is little evidence of any work at all apart from the conductor bar at Caerphilly. At the overbridge at Gilfach Fargoed there are signs warning of overhead electrification...

756116 on test today: 1 Passing Danescourt Station enroute to Pontypridd , 2 At Radyr returning to Canton.

I guess the reason as usual is money. There is a low bridge at the west (Rhymney) end of the station which would be expensive to deal with, so the wires will start immediately beyond the bridge.

I cannot see Ynyswen opening in summer 2024. When I was there last week very little progress had been made apart from reinstating the second track. A second platform, footbridge and lifts need to be installed in what is naturally very wet ground. There never has been a second platform here. The...

Aberdare looks finished. All wires are up into the station.

I think you need to be very careful interpreting sych figures. Many people, myself included, buy a return ticket to Central, get off at Cathays and maybe return from Central or Queen Street. We think of all three as one and use whichever is most convenient.

Three pics from the Rhondda line today: 1. Treherbert with the new platform and new track in place. The station building is right centre. 2. Dinas looking towards Porth with the new track in place. 3. Dinas looking towards Tonypandy showing the end of the redoubling.

I happened to be in Lisvane Station last Wednesday waiting for a train north and a small group of men in orange suits were putting up these signs. I pointed out to the foreman that the 'Welsh' version of the direction signs was complete gobbledygook with different gobbledygook on the southbound...

I had a walk down to the station at Quakers Yard yesterday to see what was going on. A large army of people were busy working on the down platform. When I asked I was told the work would take some days and to take the bus. I guess like everything else here it will be finished when it's finished.

Progress at Dinas Rhondda - lengthy redoubling and a new platform.

Don't know why I put Monday in my comment about 231009 Nick since I took a photo of it at Bargoed on its first day on Wednesday. I tĥink old age is getting to me.

231011 worked the Rhymney-Rhymney via Heath Junction test on 26 January and that is the only time I have seen it on the line until it turned up yesterday. I don't think 231009 had been on the line at all until it turned up on Monday. Photo shows 231011 at Lisvane on 26 January.

This was Rhiwbina this afternoon with 153921 returning from Coryton. The trunking is clearly marked 25000V,