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Job advert States must live within 1 hour - how do they judge that as I can get to Carmarthen at the speed limit in less than an hour from Cardiff, however google maps seems to think it should take me 1 hour 10 mins at best
Cardiff to Edinburgh for the rugby - 6 hours + of drinking on the train
or if counting sail rail
Cardiff to Dublin via holyhead - almost 12 hours total journey time
Llandaff station in Cardiff - about a mile north and on the other side of the river Taff to llandaff village. The railway here forms the boundary between llandaff North and Whitchurch.
From what I've read it seems the problem is that the uk government will fund the gwml electrification between London to cardiff and bridgend to Swansea. For some reason they have decided that the cardiff to bridgend section of the swml is part of the valley lines and not the main route between...
2 northbound platforms (current 1, and reused platform above booking office)
2 southbound platforms ( current 2 + 3)
1 south bound bay platform for cardiff bay services - new build
coryton line could be extended to j32 ish
the proposed beddau line would pass the m4 to the east of junction 33
while the south wales main line passes to the west of j34
It should be easy enough but I think gaer junction is a single line onto the main eastbound line so would need to rearrange the lines into Newport from the west ( adj tunnels etc ) to make it work
They would make sense, but I don't think there's space available in Newport station to stable the unit used, or paths to get it from the junction to the station in the first place
Just be glad they let you on the platform - at cardiff central during millennium stadium events they have queues outside separated by destination, and only let the capacity of the train up to the platform when the train is ready
Only problem is ferries arrive at 1130 and 1150 and the terminal is a fair way from the rail platform - even with the shuttle bus so ferry pax will still be on the 1238 ( done this trip a few times for the rugby In Dublin and sometimes it's been close for the 1238)
the car won because the car went direct - hammond and may on the train had to go through several changes en route - not just the tgv
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_Races#Aston_Martin_DB9_vs._French_TGV_-_Distance_900_miles
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