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The current UK Government plans for the railway include a decision that track not currently owned by Network Rail and not due to be passed on to GBR should continue to be regulated by the ORR. This clearly makes sense with something like HS1 but in terms of the south Wales Metro, core valley...

Aplologies if there is already a thread on this but I can't see one. BBC Cymru Fyw are reporting that BTP have apologised to the family of David Tudor Evans, the man who died during the accident. The lack of support for the family seems apalling. I'm not sure English language media are across...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/lewes-bonfire-night.276090/page-3#post-7009938 I'd never heard of this event until I read this thread. It sounds nasty, unpleasant and anti-Catholic.Surely the answer is just to end it. I'm not familiar with Lewes but I'm...

I travelled from Cardiff to London this morning and the train was a total nightmare. Two trains (including my own) had been cancelled and the one that turned up was just five carriages. Sardine can doesn't begin to describe it. I'm a wheelchair user, so I was fine but I pity others who had paid...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/transport-for-wales-lowest-satisfaction-rating.254675/ I agree with all of the above. I wonder if Trans-Penines Nova 3s might ease TfW's problems when they come off-lease in December? They might offer an improvement on the...

TfW seems to get a lot of criticism on here but today, with no fanfare, passenger services resumed from the Ebbw Valley line into Newport for the first time since 1962. Initially services will run from Cross Keys into Newport hourly on weekdays. The services are due to be extended to Ebbw Vale...

There's a very interesting long read on the the history of Barmouth bridge and plans for its future on BBC Online

Let's not overstate the popularity of football. Sure, twenty million people in the UK watched the Germany game live on TV, a huge audience, but fifty million people either couldn't watch or didn't want to. Football is popular but it's not popular enough to cause either a shortage of crews or a...

Since this project now seems to be moving forwards rapidly, I thought I'd start a new thread for it, the previous one having been closed. The project is currently awaiting planning permission from Neath Port Talbot and Powys county councils as it straddles the county boundary but, with both...

The seemingly neverending saga of linking the Ebbw Valley line to Newport seems to be reaching a conclusion. Newport-Ebbw Vale rail line to be restored with £70-million loan

While the jury is probably still out on TfW, their scheme to make unused station buildings available for community use seems to be moving forward. Have any other franchises attempted this and, if so, with what kind of results...

Planning permission has been granted for improvements to Pontypool and New Inn station on the Marches line. Basically it involves the creation of a new 150 space car park to the west of the station linked to the island platform by a new footbridge/lifts. The existing eastern car park and subway...

There's a great programme to mark the 50th anniversary of the fire that destroyed the Britannia bridge between Anglsey and the the Welsh mainland on iPlayer. The programme is in Welsh but it's subtitled and is a really good watch...

Count this in the highly speculative category! I was just wondering what could be done to improve the connectivity of the 'blind' valleys of south Wales, the ones that basicaly have only one way in and out. There are plenty of them, the Garw valley, Cwm Clydach / Clydach Vale in the Rhondda and...

The Welsh Government has published a twenty year 'direction of travel' document for the railways warning that "These are not promises. They are not commitments. No funding has been allocated. But they do inform our direction of travel. They inform others of our ambitions. And, most importantly...

It's been confirmed that Aberthaw power station is to close next year. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/aberthaw-power-station-close-coal-16679614 This has to be the largest brownfield site to be created in Wales for some time. I should imagine that there'll be a lot of...

I couldn't find a thread for this, but the Cardiff rebuild seems to be moving forwards Cardiff Central railway station to get £58m upgrade

TfW has announced that demolition work is to start on the site of their new Taffs Well depot, north of Cardiff 'during July'. https://news.tfwrail.wales/news/making-way-for-the-south-wales-metro In the news release the plan is described thus; They appear to be cramming a lot onto what's a...