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Keilos/Amey, so Amey, will be responsible for upgrades and maintenance on the Valley lines to 2033. Who will control & be responsible for signalling is unclear, as all HR signalling will remain, but it's not been confirmed whether NR will keep control in it's signalling centre at Canton, or the...

No new information in the latest issue of RAIL (available digitally today) other than the boundary between TfW owned 'Core Valley lines' and NR owned everything else will be "just south of Cardiff Queen Street", presumably after the Bay line branches off, and that the Stadler CityLink...

Maybe they do manage them all, I wasn't 100% sure. There aren't any NR managed stations in Wales so ATW do manage them all then!

Radyr and Llandaf have already been done. I wonder if TfW are paying ATW an undisclosed sum to re-paint as many stations as possible by October, as ATW aren't obliged to do it and technically they still manage nearly all stations in Wales.

Do we think the 150s & 158s will appear in the TfW colour schemes? Any sensible person would realise that the heavy internal refresh & deep clean just given by ATW to the 150s, along with new seat covers, new flooring, new panelling on most, means the 150s internally are fine to 2023. Externally...

Maybe an order of 9 x 230s would arrive sooner

I'd suggest the follow on order for an extra 4 x 769s to the 5 ordered is put in now. Maybe they'll arrive by 2021.

What's the problem with the 769s and why are they so delayed? ATW should be running them in service around now, esp. considering ATW have contributed £1 million towards their introduction.

From all the information available, it seems there are no plans to take on any of Northern's 144s or GWR 143s as they are gradually released from this autumn. IMO this is a missed opportunity for KeilosAmey to get a 'quick win' and provide a capacity increase and more seats, esp in and around...

Ken Skates said in his cabinet statement on Monday 4th June: "The new trains will offer an overall improvement to the quality and ambience of passenger facilities compared to the current fleet. We are committed to ensuring that this includes comfortable seats." If this is a swipe at the...

The same line is being used for the building of the Taffs Well depot and 'Metro control centre' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-44440614 (Sion Barry's piece on Wales Online gives Skates' 'made in Wales, jobs for the Valleys' comments in full)

If you take out the 2tph from Aberdare that will divert at Radyr along the City line into Central, but then go straight on to Queen St and then up to Merthyr, along with Merthyr services going into Central via Queen St and back up to Aberdare via the City line, it's then down to 12tph?

Well my experience of using the network since childhood is that Central is as busy as Queen St with passengers from the Valleys and the Vale for all the reasons stated by multiple posters so far. Demand for direct links into Central will only grow over the next 5 + years for these reasons...

I was on a train into Central that had come down from the Valleys on Saturday and it was rammed all the way to Central. I thought there must have been a special event on at the stadium but it was just sheer numbers of people going into the centre of Cardiff for shopping / socialising etc on a...

Do you have any idea how complex the HR infrastructure is at Cardiff Central? The only way to have your 'proper trams' up the Valleys would be to completely cut the Valleys off from Cardiff Central, sever cross-city links from the Valleys to Barry, Penarth, the Vale and the western City line...

And when it's realised that 40m tram-trains that offer no increase in seating capacity to the current 2 car 150s, are completely insufficient to meet passenger numbers and the overcrowding compliants continue, Taff Valley routes can get Stadler Flirts as well ;) (And before people shout...

By interpreting the maps in the presentation: Treherbert - Queen St - Flourish (2tph) Treherbert - Queen St - Central (2tph terminating) Aberdare - Radyr - City line - Central - Queen St - Cathays - Merthyr (2tph) Aberdare - Queen St - Flourish (2tph) Merthyr - Queen St - Central - City line...

I am not against Professor Barry and his plans, it's fantastic that we've finally got someone with status and power being listened to in Wales who is championing public transport against the road and bypass lobby. I am one of the most anti-car people you will meet, but his plans seem to...

So the Prof now thinks we should get tram-trains running up to Ebbw Vale and along the mainline, avoiding Cardiff Central altogether and going down to the Bay. Tram-trains mixing with freight and class 800s. Right. A new station at Herbert St would make very little difference to numbers at...

The Valleys tram-trains are very much intended to mix with heavy rail traffic, they will be mixing with all the various HR trains between Ninian Park and Queen St, around Canton depot and into & through Cardiff Central.