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Remember that persistent speeding will bump up insurance premiums and potentially lead to being banned from driving. Professional drivers can lose their jobs if they accumulate six points. Persistent fare evaders can very often get away with paying what they owe plus £150. I've never heard of...

There was this high-profile case, for example. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34403023 Speeding motorists have to be 'caught on camera'. Equivalent to bring caught without a valid ticket on a train.

CAF offer a bi-mode version of the Civity, so it probably wouldn't have been a huge job to take the electric traction bits out but leave provision for them to be retrofitted. I don't think they do a tri-mode version as required for Rhymney Valley-Cardiff-Vale services though.

In which case construction shouldn't start until it's fully funded. Otherwise it's a white elephant.

It does seem a lot of money to save passengers for the Bay leaving Cardiff Central by the south entrance and catching a bus, or in many cases changing at Queen Street.

A now sadly deceased contributor to the UK.railway Usenet group used to give his location as something like 'Earlestown, in the occupied territories of south west Lancashire'.

It takes about 3 hours with a change at Shrewsbury. Are you advocating spending many billions of pounds on building a new rail route? How much time would that save and how would it stack up against a new high quality road and express coaches?

As long as 'Bristol Stations' was clearly and prominently defined. For example, Bristol Parkway, Filton Abbey Wood and Patchway are in the Bristol urban area but outside the City of Bristol. Stations as far as Avonmouth on the Severn Beach branch are in the City of Bristol but the terminus...

Although tickets are issued to Bristol Temple Meads or Bristol Parkway rather than 'Bristol Stations' I've had no problem arriving at one and departing from the other on a return ticket or going from Newport - Temple Meads or vice versa via Parkway. What benefits would making a station group...

Indeed. Even if it is insurance backed I'd need to be sure they'd paid the premium and the insurer wouldn't go bust!

I hope some others in south Wales are. I might get a good price on the new patio doors I've been procrastinating about for a year or two now.

Pwllheli - Machynleth is up 25 stops in 57 miles and, I gather, very crowded in the summer. Merthyr Tydfil - Bridgend via Barry is 23 stops in 50 miles and very crowded at peak times. Ignoring things like gauging issues, are 175s suitable for the former, the latter, neither or both?

The type of train selected to operate throughout much of Wales should be dictated by the needs of the couple of hundred passengers a year who used a station which should probably have been closed years ago?

What's the population of the area that uses your station as a railhead, where do the trains go? I'd expect a station within an hour of a large town or city to have greater usage, for example. I accept that my calculation overestimates the annual trips per inhabitant for Haverfordwest as I...

That's why I said it will be interesting to see what happens once it's reintroduced and, hopefully, properly resourced and reliable. The Ebbw Valley is an urban route by the way. Definitely so as far as Newbridge. The Welsh Government for the purpose of this thread. They have reduced support...

But for every nurse going to work in Withybush Hospital by train there are probably eight going by bus and eighty eight driving. If the railway was closed we might lose the one who used it but if the money saved was given to the NHS another eight nurses could probably be employed instead of...

The population of Haverfordwest is about 12,000 and even pre-covid about 120,000 used the station. On average each inhabitant took less than one train trip a month. Now it's down to about seven times a year. It's hard for those who work on the railway or use it frequently to appreciate how...

Public Transport generally makes a loss, except buses within and between urban areas, so it's more about making the best use of taxpayers' money. That has to be looked at in the wider context of health. welfare, education and all the other calls on it. SWWITCH (South West Wales Integrated...

It costs several times what a bus service would, even without making any contribution to infrastructure costs. Arguably the passengers service should pay the additional costs of maintaining the route to passenger standards. Or, to put it another way, you could have a better bus service for the...

Do we need a new thread 'Brands You Expect to Reappear Soon'? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67229923