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If Network Rail is broken up / privatised / flogged off to Cameron & Osborne's 'friends' in the City then the Tories will have once again shown their true colours. No-one should ever be allowed to forget the series of catastrophic and fatal rail crashes that happened under Railtrack in the...

Does this bug also apply to buying advance tickets over the counter from station booking offices? If so I hope it's resolved in the next 2 weeks, as by then I've got Rail vouchers to spend on buying FGW advance tickets for a trip to the South West in the summer. :|

FGW Advance fares on the routes I've been looking at the last few weeks have all changed recently. Mainly FGW routes from South Wales to London, to Bristol and on routes in the South West. Not sure on their other routes. Perhaps I exaggerated slightly using the word wholesale, I've now edited...

So it's just Anytime and Off-Peak fares which are regulated and can only rise once per year, usually in January? Thanks for the information

I've noticed that there are changes to FGW Advance fares from the start of the summer timetables on 17th May. FGW Advance fares have been unavailable from the National Rail website over the last few days and buying tickets directly from FGW's website shows some advance tickets have gone up, with...

Indeed, the T9 Cardiff Airport service is a colossal waste of money and I can think of many public services, including other than transport, that the money used to fund an empty bus to run back and forth between the airport and city centre 3 times an hour all day could go towards. There are...

When asked the direct question by Lucy Owen "Does this mean you haven't planned for the increase in the number of people using trains though?", Lynne Milligan replies "We operate a rail franchise that was let in 2003 and the contract set out the number of trains that we were able to have". So in...

I notice this program didn't mention services to Barry Island and Bridgend via Barry which are just as bad as services on the 'Valleys'. Peak time services on the Valley lines need to be at least triple Pacers or double Sprinters. The worst line south of Cardiff is Bridgend via Barry, which...

So why build the new extra platforms at Queen St then? Just to be able to overtake broken down trains at Queen St or Central?

According to leaflets that were being handed to passengers passing through Queen St today, from this Sunday...... Platform 1: Cardiff Bay Platform 2: Services towards Penarth and Radyr (via the City Line) Platform 3: Services towards Barry Island, Bridgend (via VOG), and trains terminating...

I think the point is that £15 bn can be found in the run up to a general election to improve roads going through marginal constituencies in England (not Scotland or Wales), but what is an arguably more important and urgent infrastructure issue is the need for a diversionary rail route for...

I didn't feel safe because it felt like it was going to leave the tracks. Jumping up and down, rocking from side to side. The panels in the gangway hammering together. If I hadn't been on a 10 minute journey I was considering getting off and waiting for another train. Depends how tolerant you...

BBC Wales is saying that 'work on electrification will take place between 2019-2024' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-30154568 so this could mean: 1) We get cascaded 150s from FGW or Scotrail to replace at least the 142s in the valleys until electrification is complete (best option) 2)...

Depends how you define 'working' :roll: My season ticket, which happily passed through the barriers a few weeks ago now refuses to let me through, so I have to be let through by an assistant....... Queen St is far from a fully completed, upgraded station right now.

According to posters erected outside the station in the last few days, the new ticket office is opening on 30th November with the new platforms coming into use on 14th December. However, I can't see how Network Rail will be completely finished with Queen St by the end of this year. There's...

So do we know when any definite news will be released on whether this project will go ahead? How long is a 'short number of months'? There was no mention of any rail projects in the WAG draft budget last month With all the talk in other threads of the possible replacement of Pacers in the...

Something that is being forgotten here is that the South Wales valleys also have a large number of Pacers currently running its services. Whilst the situation isn't as bad as in the North and we do have 150's in our fleet as well as 142s and 143s, there STILL is no rubber stamp guarantee on the...

I don't quite understand some of the posts in this thread regarding 1st Advance tickets. Are FGW intending to abolish 1st Advance fares on ALL of their services, or just selected routes? I've just booked 1st Advance tickets for a Cardiff --> London Paddington trip in January and had no...