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From the Guardian: "... the original 370-mile route that links the capital with Lyon and which is near saturation point due to its popularity. Speaking in London last year, Guillaume Pepy, president of the SNCF (the French national rail authority) said that not building a four-track railway...

Greenback said: "That may be the case, I haven;t been to Dolwyddelan, so it may be a computer voice, that may have been what FNW put in?" It is a computer voice and mangles the place names as Manaichain described with his mobile phone. The equipment on the platform, at the Blaenau Ffestiniog...

I am pretty sure there is no human involvement in the announcements at Dolwyddelan.

At the risk of repeating myself, not only are there no Welsh announcements at Dolwyddelan (and I guess at most (all?) other stations in Anglesey/Mon, Conwy and Gwynedd) to come first or second but the English ones are worse than useless because the technology used is inappropriate, paying no...

It is not a minority language in Dolwyddelan and most of the rest of the Conwy valley; this map is at county rather than district level so does not show what happens in Conwy county away from the heavily-anglicised coastal strip.

From one point of view the automated announcements at Dolwyddelan could be interpreted as "We can't be bothered getting a technology which renders your weird place names remotely correctly and your weird language at all" which, given the still-remembered English hostility to the Welsh language...

I am very intrigued by this discussion! I am a regular user of Dolwyddelan station, in a very Welsh-speaking area of the country, and automated announcements have recently begun to be made there. However they are only in English and use a synthesised voice which completely mangles the Welsh...

What puzzles me is why starting at LLJ and changing at LLJ onto the same train should produce such different routes.

Yesterday my son wanted to travel from Dolwyddelan (DWD) to Burnham (Bucks) (BNM) so I used the National Rail Journey Planner to check the changes if he left DWD at 15.11. This showed him changing at Llandudno Junction (LLJ), going forward at 16.25 and arriving in BNM at 06.xx the following...