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A lot more challenging to design a queuing system for Queen Street. The station subways and platforms are a lot more contained than at Central. I believe Guildford St and Station Terrace are normally closed with access for buses only but I can't see that would be enough if there are large...

I see TfW will be trialling a new post event queueing arrangement in Cardiff, which involves Valleys passengers using Queen Street instead of Central. This is to cater for Metro works taking over large parts of the area South of Central station - the area previously used for the queue for...

You don't get free travel. Tap in as normal at the station readers at the start and end of the journey. If finishing a journey at a station with barriers you may need to speak to staff to tap out, as the exit reader will be inside the barrier. Likewise you would need to speak to staff if...

Exactly! Using it misses the main population centre of Bridgend and would be slower than the main line - it has a severe speed limit, as in living memory it wasn't much more than a loading siding for the open cast mine. It would cost a fortune to bring up to passenger standard. There is also a...

If any future Maesteg - Swansea was viable it would be better to go via Bridgend and reverse there anyway,

A passing loop would be needed, but ideally North of Tondu, in the vicinity of the paper mills, to enable 30 minute frequency. What is also needed is a double lead (is that the correct term?) at the bottom of the branch to allow northbound trains to clear the mainline if there is a late running...

I've done Holyhead to Cardiff entire way on a 197 with no toilet. Announced (after leaving Holyhead) that toilet stops would be made en route, but to inform staff if urgent! Had extended stops of 10 mins at Chester and Shrewsbury and 5 at Hereford and still made Cardiff on time. Chester was...

From the TfW website: The On-Board Inspection Charge will be renamed pay as you go penalty charge from Monday 9 February. It will also increase from £10 to £20.

As I was already outside the gate line i did speak to a member of staff there who said they could do anything with PAYG and I would need to call the helpline. The app did show I had attempted tap off, but showed as failed (I had tried 5 times on two different readers). The assistant on the...

Had my first major issue with PAYG last week. My card issuer had blocked my credit card (long story short they randomly changed my PIN without telling me, meaning it worked online, but the physical card was disabled). Ticket gates at start of journey let me in, card checked ok on train, but was...

Ok, thank you!

Had a trip to Cornwall last week, and spent a day with my son using a Cornwall Day Ranger. When I looked at the tickets afterwards, I'm wasn't sure how the price had been worked out. They are advertised as £17 adult and £8.50 child. We used a Family Railcard and the price paid was £11.30 for...

The east facing bay platform at Bridgend, which is used for VoG services (platforms 1A) is about 90 m, and more than long enough for 4-car flirts. It sees 4-car 150s regularly. I think the longest I have seen there would be 150+153+153. I wonder if someone has got confused with the west facing...

A 231 or 4-car 756 is 80.7 m long. The bay platform at Bridgend can happily accommodate a 4-car 150, which is just shy of 80 m, so this is very unlikely the issue. It's the fact that only Valleys drivers are trained on them, but don't sign the route between Barry and Bridgend...

Surely the 3-car 756s on the Penarth-Caerphilly-Coryton circuit, and the 4-car on Rhymney valley to Barry Island / VoG? Or will VoG be short changed yet again?

Wasn't it that the GWR payg staff handheld readers are not compatible with the TfW system, so they would have had to carry an additional reader, which was considered unreasonable?

Took me several weeks of travelling on 197s before i worked out what it was trying to show. The you are here arrow implies it is showing an accurate location on the train, but it is not. Glad that the display it is being revamped, as it has the potential to be so much better. The tiny size of...

The last service of the day was supposedly going to pause at stations en route which had toilets so passengers could use the facilities. Didn't sound very practical. Maybe that idea has been forgotten about.

Ah ok, I wondered if it was something deliberately connected to the rail post accident, temporary earth, or signalling related.

What's the yellow cable at the right hand side which appears to connect to the track?