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The Gelynis Farm crossing is now blocked. The new bridge is open I am a bit annoyed that they did not put a foot path on the approaches to the bridge. If they had any statistics for the crossing they would see far more pedestrians and cyclists than cars using the crossing.

The now no longer existing Platform 5 used to be a bay Platform at the West end of platform 4.

Perhaps they should return to the station configuration with the twin bridge restored. The Rhymney Railway using Platforms 1 and 2. The Taff Vale Railway using platforms 3 and 4.

Maybe not at the moment. Its a journey I have often taken. It is multiple stages. Radyr to Cardiff Central, walk from platform 6/8 to platform 2, Cardiff Central to Bristol Temple Meads, Bristol Temple Meads Airport Bus Stop to Bristol Airport. Currently that is a single ticket. I do not...

I was wondering if I could use a card either a TFW or GWR to make a journey to Bristol from Radyr. Radyr to Cardiff would be a TFW train Cardiff to Bristol is GWR. Even more complex the bus transfer to the airport. Hopefully it will be sorted out by the time I would want to do it.

Unfortunately the best part of the walk was from the Wenvoe Tunnel in a deep cutting. It was dry the first times I walked it but one winter the drainage channels got blocked and that section was challenge to keep dry feet. Then the cutting reduces and under the Drope bridge the land continued...

I appologise. I was living in Culverhouse Cross as a teenager 40 years ago. I walked out of the City from the Wenvoe Tunnel to the Llanltrisant road twice (the big walk Radyr once, St Fagins often. I would not have met the Llantrisant Number 1 branch until North of Creigau which is a very long...

Thankyou. I was looking at a too old OS map around 1900 and too late 1970. A 1930s map clearly shows the connection. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=51.49778&lon=-3.23865&layers=10&b=1

I am always fascinated by talk of the metro travelling along the City Line North of Fairwater through Pentrebane to Creigau. I have lived nearly all my life in West Cardiff. As a young man I liked to walk along the disused railways near my house. So I know where a few of them ran. There is...

30 years ago I was living in North London. There was often a beggar lying on the floor outside the Angel (Islington) tube station. I felt sorry for him. Then one weekend I went home to South Wales. It was the weekend of the Wales - England Rugby International. On Friday evening I caught the...

I think it is political. At the start of the project it was pushed by George Osbourne who wanted to promote the regions. For example the Northern Power House. He understood that it is important for a country not to concentrate investment in one place. DFT and rail track were told not to...

just an uninformed opinion, back five years ago the WAG was expecting the electrification of the Valley Lines to be complete. It would not have been sensible to invest in rolling stock that was due to be superceded. Of course there is no excuse after they realised electrification was not...

My home station is now called Radyr. A long time ago it was called Penarth Junction. The first time I travelled by train as a small boy I was travelling from Cardiff to Pontypridd. I knew a little about local Geography and told my mum we were on the wrong train. I do not think the station was...

Ticket reservations had all sort of problems when they were used. Problems I encountered. 1. Bike reservations were 'compulsory' on the local companies trains. Try to book. That train does not have seat reservations so the bike reservation cannot be associated with your seat ticket. 2...

I admit to being a cyclist who occasionally takes the train overloaded with other bikes. Normally I am quite happy to ride the sixteen miles between my home station (Radyr) and work which is situated half way between Bridgend and Pencoed stations. However I occasionally I need to take the...