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ATW have confirmed that no extra trains (above the usual Sunday service level) will be put on to get fans home, mainly to the Valleys and the Vale of Glamorgan, after the Ed Sheeran concert at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff this Sunday night. So how are fans who have taken the train in to...

https://m.arrivatrainswales.co.uk/south-wales-mainline-modernisation/ ATW have just announced late timetable changes to weekday services from 23rd April over 3 months. No trains Cwmbran - Cardiff and/or Newport - Cardiff and complete bus replacement on some weeks Ebbw Vale - Cardiff. Network...

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P13494/2018/04/23/advanced 1V93 0830 Llandudno - Cardiff Central (Monday - Friday) Does anyone know what is usually allocated to this service and what usually ends up running it? I may be doing the entirety of this journey in April, but I don't want to be...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42466312 I thought in a situation like this, anyone occupying a disabled/priority seat or wheelchair space had to move, even if it meant the able bodied passenger then standing? Should the staff member (doesn't say whether it was platform staff or TM/guard) have...

Can someone please direct me to where it's possible to find out the full details of Underground network closures between Christmas and New Year 2017-18? I live in Cardiff and am planning on visiting relatives in Chelmsford. Cardiff --> Paddington trains are fine, but getting across London looks...

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/arriva-trains-wales-clamping-down-13390885 The key to this is that statement I have highlighted - "passengers who could not pay by debit card would still be able to get a discount". How are ATW going to prove a passenger cannot pay by debit card...

So, another period of hot weather, and yet again passengers complaining of cooking on class 158s due to faulty air con. I myself was one of those passengers on Wednesday. When a green GWR 158 pulled in to the platform at Bristol TM I expected that as it's obviously just come back from an...

Apologies if this has been discussed already, I've done a search but can't find any relevant threads, but when looking up timetables in and around Cardiff on Saturday 3rd June in connection with this massive event at the Principality stadium, there are some strange timetables appearing on RTT...

Taken from this article Is this enforceable? I don't want this thread to be about the behaviour of the RPIs - that's been discussed already - but ATW's policy on fines if you don't have a ticket, and valid reasons for not having a ticket - is completely different to their policy on ticket less...

ATW are slowly refreshing their Pacers and WiFi will even be fitted on 150s within the next year. Too little, too late? Are ATW trying to 'impress' passengers and the WG ahead of the new franchise announcement by the end of the year? And maybe they know something we don't by...

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/what-happened-transport-minister-joined-12453520 Of course, ATW weren't going to let the Transport Secretary travel on a crush loaded 2-car 142 to Treherbert at tea time were they? No, a nice internally refreshed, clean and quiet 150 please. So...

Quite a substantial article today on the BBC News Wales website, with input from Prof Cole. I'd recommend reading it on the BBC website but have copied and pasted the story to make the thread legal: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-38391608 All very good, but how could any...

Once again passengers have had to evacuate an ATW Pacer formation due to fumes inside the carriage. Not as dramatic as the train on fire at Caerphilly a few months ago but it's not good. It's not uncommon to be on an ATW Pacer lately and have the smell of fumes accompanying you throughout the...

Is there such a thing as DMUs, I'm thinking specifically Pacers and 150s, developing what sounds and feels like 'square wheels'? Most of the ATW fleet of Pacers and some of it's 150s have developed this with wheel sets recently, and the only way to describe it is as 'clunking' when moving that...

Obviously no-one predict the future in Politics at the moment, but with parts of the GWML electrification project being 'defrerred' today, what implications could this have for the electrification of the Valley Lines? Will it ever happen? I guess it's inevitable now that Cardiff - Swansea...

This question follows my experience of being on a dangerously overcrowded Pacer today, when all it would've taken was someone to lose their balance and everyone would've gone down like dominoes causing a crush on the train. It's a long time since i've felt genuinely unsafe on a train, but today...

This week I've been getting the 0755 Barry Island into Cathays and every morning the train has been late due to being stuck waiting outside Cardiff Central for 10 minutes for platform 6 to clear and then again being stuck at platform 6 (for no apparent reason) for 5 - 10 minutes before moving...

I don't know much about the railway infrastructure in the UK, and I never seem to read about any new electrification projects using a 3rd rail. Any new electrification infrastructure always seems to use overhead wires. Are there any particular reasons for this? Surely it's cheaper and simpler...

So it appears that the Welsh Government STILL has no rolling stock strategy to deal with the fact that by 2020 ALL of the DMU’s currently operating on the Valley lines will become illegal and will have to be withdrawn. The electrification of the Valley lines, the first phase South Wales Metro...

If anyone can give me the specific info that I'm looking for on the Mon - Fri ATW 1510 Swansea - Chester (1621 from Cardiff Central) service I'd be very grateful. Does anyone know what type of DMU is normally used on this service? RTT has it pathed as a 150/153/156 DMU. Is this usually the...