Transport for Wales' trains are not run by Keolis Amey anymore. They're only going to help with infrastructure improvements. The Welsh government stripped Keolis Amey of the franchise and took it over with an Operator of Last Resort. The standard heavy rail routes will be Bridgend/Barry Island to Rhymney/Coryton, Maesteg to Abergavenny and Cardiff Central to Ebbw Vale while the tram-train routes will be Cardiff Bay to Merthyr, Aberdare and Treherbert. Cardiff to Swansea isn't part of the South Wales Metro. This route will be served by the Swanline local trains, inter-regional TfW trains and GWR's high-speed trains.
Thank you for making this video Ashley. One thing you didn't mention is that Transport for Wales, awarded contracts for the railway vehicles for the Metro network to Stadler. The Light rail vehicles are going to be Tram-Trains to a similar design as the Four Class 399 Stadler vehicles used on the Sheffield Super Tram network. Stadler has started construction the the Class 398 tram trains which are to be based at a new £100 million pound depot at Garth Wells Industrial Estate, Taff's Well, between Cardiff & Pontypridd.
As a Welsh speaker, your pronunciation was pretty good! Da iawn! The Welsh Government has already done other changes to the Welsh railway lines outside this project, for example, on the Cambrian Line which runs from Shrewsbury to Pwllheli and Aberystwyth (it has two branches), they have rebuilt a station in the village of Bow Street, and are consulting if to open one in the village of Carno (which I hope they do, as it's my hometown haha)
This video is super informing, I had never seen your channel or heard about Cardiff metro before this! I just have to say in particular that your graphics and video layout are brilliant!! Top tier production. Subscribed!
Wow, that sound exciting. And I'm not even from the UK... also, very nice video! I loved the illustrations. Your style of explaning is very calm and understandable, I enjoyed that a lot.
I’m moving to Cardiff from Guildford in July. Really excited to see the evolution of South Wales Metro over the next few years with new trains and increased frequency.
@@ollie-t7862 Depends on preference and circumstances, really. Barry is much cheaper (plus nearer the sea!) but Cardiff is obviously where the city life is. Both are so well served by public transport, though, it's easy to have the best of both worlds. Never lived in Barry myself but know plenty of people who did their 20s in Cardiff before moving out to Barry to settle and love it. Good luck with the new job!
Seriously I don't want Stagecoach, First, Arriva or any other companies like that getting any where NEAR this project and great video and I'm glad that they are planning to improve Wales train networks :)
Ask people in the East Midlands, Surrey, Hampshire & Dorset what their view is. If only SC didn't take so many liberties with the pensions. They also ran most of VT & it's not so great now. First do a good job on gWr though they can be prone to over reaching themselves on other projects, like WCML or buses, hence they pulled out of most bus ops. I think the main problem in Wales was being given no-growth franchises so they were stuck with limited / old trains. Arriva do alright on Chiltern, they, but they don't have nearly enough trains to run Cross Country. Imo the Welsh government are dinosaurs when it comes to transport & the ONLY saving grace is they're finally getting some new trains in. Though it won't be nearly enough of them, as it's to replace trains that are being scrapped.
@@rubenkelman4013 North wales metro wouldn't work. The area is too sparsely populated and the area that is populated would be better integrated with Merseyrail. A North walian.
Recently the Welsh government have taken direct control of TFW Rail from Keolis Amey due to the losses incurred from the pandemic. Keolis Amey will however continue to be involved with the engineering side.
They did. After a collapse in revenue as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the original franchise (which began on 14th October 2018) became financially unviable. On 7th February 2021, the Welsh Government's operator of last resort suceeded KeolisAmey Wales as operator of the Wales & Borders franchise. KeolisAmey and Transport for Wales will continue their partnership on further improvements to the TFW network, with AmeyKeolis Infrastructure Ltd delivering some key projects such as the Core Valley Lines.
@@ashleyrabot I think the Keolis Amey debacle goes back way before the pandemic www.railjournal.com/policy/welsh-government-takes-control-of-rail-franchise/
As a planner Ashley you may well be interested in the work already carried out on the modelling of battery powered trains up the valley lines (re frequency / time under conventional catenaries / battery size-capacity and regenerative braking effects ).
Basically yes. Its very expensive to cross the valleys with rail due to the need for tunnels and viaducts so a BRT system is a much cheaper option to provide cross valley connectivity.
Is this a through running rail line where they use it to add extra regional trains on surrounding rail lines by running the extra trains via this South Wales metro line?
It doesn't involve any additional lines, except probably doubling some single-track lines or adding passing loops - because some of the single-track sections are too long to allow a 15-minute frequency, even with the faster tram-trains that will be running. It will remain the case that the valleys just have all-stations trains into Cardiff, so no _major_ change to the organisation there. For a more in-depth look at what the plans involve, have a look at Gareth Dennis' #RailNatter episode: ua-cam.com/video/RiIo9kinLgo/v-deo.html
Your Welsh pronunciations aren't too bad - I've heard worse! Rhymney is something close to Rum - knee, by the way; Hirwaun is like Here - wine; Maesteg is like My's steg the last part of which rhymes with egg; and Pontypridd follows the Welsh language pronunciation of dd, which is like the -th ending of breathe, hence Pon - tee - preathe, with a p instead if a b at the eginning of the final syllable... Names beginning with Tre- are pronounced Tray followed by the rest of the name, hence Tray - Loo - iss for Trelewis; and Tray - Herbert, for Treherbert! I is pronounced ee as in see; f is pronounced as v in English; ff is produced as the English f; y is usually also ee if in thee Middle of a word and possibly hyphenated; and w is usually a short oo or ih. W and Y canbe vowels or consonants, incidentally. The emphasis is usually on the penultimate syllable, irrespective of which language is spoken by native Welsh people.
Extra bonus points if you can correctly pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch! 😂 🤣 Before you ask, no I didn't copy and paste that. I spelt that from memory. I'm 1/4 Welsh myself and I've been learning more of the language. Even though most of my Welsh ancestors passed away long before I was born, I hope I'll be doing them proud by learning it now that I'm in my 20's. Hopefully by my 30's, I'll be able to speak "Cymraeg" fluently. Thats my plan anyway 😁
If they decide to build a newer metro later, will it be called “New South Wales Metro”, potentially making one to think it’s the Australian New South Wales metro?
Well as we all know that Transport for Wales is replacing the older units with new rolling stocks including the Class 230, Class 231, Class 398, Class 756 and Class 769. And the Class 170 that was cascaded from Greater Anglia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_230 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_231 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_398 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_756 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_769 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_for_Wales_Rail_(2021)
this video was a month out of date about the Operator On 7 February 2021, Transport for Wales Rail Limited, the Welsh Government's operator of last resort, succeeded KeolisAmey Wales as operator of the Wales & Borders franchise. KeolisAmey and Transport for Wales will continue a partnership on further improvements on the network, with Amey Infrastructure Wales (AIW) continuing to have an involvement in the delivering of some key projects such as the Core Valley Lines
I hope all goes through as planned but so many projects fall before even being started in S. Wales that a pattern has formed, millions spent on planning then cancelled after years of stalling.
Keolis doesn't have a great "track" record. They've cut commuter rail service substantially in Boston over their 7 years with the contract and not saved money in doing it. Hopefully things work out different with this, but if it's the same style of management don't expect even the absolute bare minimum service level put in the contract.
I live in this region and there's not a chance of this happening, the line between Newport and ebbw vale should be about 19 miles but you have do a 11 mile detour into Cardiff first. The 4 South Wales valley lines are always standing room only as the rolling stock are always breaking down. The last two winters part of the railway lines have be flooded or washed away because of poor investment in maintenance, the bus route using the A470 will be slow as there always accidents on this road rush hours are a nightmare if there's an accident you know your going to be late. This will be the Welsh government's Great white elephant project.
Well hopefully there is scope for an upgrade of the A470 with at least one bus only running lane. Is there track direct to Ebbw Vale from Newport (or track bed?). New rolling stock should improve matters.
Well done on saying the area names. Just want to point out that 'f' is pronounced as a 'v'. ['ff' is pronounced as 'f'.] So Rondda Cynnon Taf is Ron-tha cy-non Tav. 🙂 Arriva Trains was a disaster when they were running the show!
I’m sorry but he mispronounced 80% of welsh place names and even 50% of the English ones, bare minimum research wouldve fixed this. these comments will not help him improve
It's about time for them to have more services ! Lol. I am currently planning our trip to Wales and England & so surprised to know that their transportation service / systems aren't that great !! In countrysides & rural areas !! And illogical somewhat ...very frustrating !! Especially as a tourist ...some places which are closer on the map ,but no train goes there from Wales ,I have to go back to England to get there ,or no more than 4 services ( buses & trains ) a day available !! Those make it harder for us ,tourists to do a day trip !! So ,a great news!! But, it'll be after we'll go there ! Lol. 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎵🎤🎶💞
I kept reading the title as "NEW South Wales" :P :P :P I live in Sydney, btw, and we're getting Metro trains everywhere now. Largely, I think, so that the incumbent government can give money to their business buddies.
I'm sure you will get the welsh names right one day! start with Celtic is like the nations not the Football Team you have to brake up the others names like Tre-her-ber-et
Yes, the EU funded some of the scheme in the time the UK was a member state. Now that the UK is no longer a member state, their funding has stopped, naturally.
When will the UK wake up to the fact that practically all our train operators are foreign concerns. In fact most are foreign governments/state owned rail companies. Keolis is another example. Are you happy to pay 70% of your ever-rising fares to French State Railways (SNCF)? The other 30% hoes to Canada! Beeching regarded railways as the ‘cinderella’ mode if transport. Successive governments had and still have the same attitude. Which is not confined railways. Water and electricty are two other examples where foreign ownership and foreign governments have the power to turn off the switch and tap! Get someone else to do the work is the laid back attitude of all the political parties whilst those handpicked at the top, including the unions by the way, live a life of luxury. I wish the South Wales Metro the best of luck but the EU is hardly likely to be contributing now!
It’s EU funding which has to go to Wales as it was one of the EU’s poorest regions. Westminster would never prioritise Wales like the EU has for 40 or so years...
The EU didnt contribite any, lets get it straight. We were net contributors so that money was actually UK taxpayer money, ie me and you. We all used to pay £166 a year for the EU so they could give a scheme like this 140 million (or whatever it was) and you give them credit for it !!! It was the Uk taxpayer that gave the money not the EU
Great work! Delighted to hear you're really interested in our plans for the Metro :)
We are all very interested in what is going on
This is a fantastic project! This is the level of investment we need to be seeing across the whole UK!
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Transport for Wales' trains are not run by Keolis Amey anymore. They're only going to help with infrastructure improvements. The Welsh government stripped Keolis Amey of the franchise and took it over with an Operator of Last Resort. The standard heavy rail routes will be Bridgend/Barry Island to Rhymney/Coryton, Maesteg to Abergavenny and Cardiff Central to Ebbw Vale while the tram-train routes will be Cardiff Bay to Merthyr, Aberdare and Treherbert. Cardiff to Swansea isn't part of the South Wales Metro. This route will be served by the Swanline local trains, inter-regional TfW trains and GWR's high-speed trains.
Thank you for making this video Ashley. One thing you didn't mention is that Transport for Wales, awarded contracts for the railway vehicles for the Metro network to Stadler. The Light rail vehicles are going to be Tram-Trains to a similar design as the Four Class 399 Stadler vehicles used on the Sheffield Super Tram network. Stadler has started construction the the Class 398 tram trains which are to be based at a new £100 million pound depot at Garth Wells Industrial Estate, Taff's Well, between Cardiff & Pontypridd.
As a Welsh speaker, your pronunciation was pretty good! Da iawn! The Welsh Government has already done other changes to the Welsh railway lines outside this project, for example, on the Cambrian Line which runs from Shrewsbury to Pwllheli and Aberystwyth (it has two branches), they have rebuilt a station in the village of Bow Street, and are consulting if to open one in the village of Carno (which I hope they do, as it's my hometown haha)
£12m on bow street station! It only has one platform.
And the T2 bus goes in to bow st station every two hours and not once has it picked anyone up.
This video is super informing, I had never seen your channel or heard about Cardiff metro before this! I just have to say in particular that your graphics and video layout are brilliant!! Top tier production. Subscribed!
Wow, that sound exciting. And I'm not even from the UK...
also, very nice video! I loved the illustrations. Your style of explaning is very calm and understandable, I enjoyed that a lot.
I’m moving to Cardiff from Guildford in July. Really excited to see the evolution of South Wales Metro over the next few years with new trains and increased frequency.
Good luck with your move and welcome to the 'Diff 😊
@@lowri.williams Thanks Barry or Cardiff where would you recommend? I'm working at the airport so Barry seems ideal
@@ollie-t7862 Depends on preference and circumstances, really. Barry is much cheaper (plus nearer the sea!) but Cardiff is obviously where the city life is. Both are so well served by public transport, though, it's easy to have the best of both worlds. Never lived in Barry myself but know plenty of people who did their 20s in Cardiff before moving out to Barry to settle and love it. Good luck with the new job!
Great video sir, you and Jago Hazzard need to do a joint video.
Yay! I always wanted more details about this. Good job.
So this is basically a train/tram/bus network which goes everywhere in the Cardiff Capital Region (except Penarth)
Seriously I don't want Stagecoach, First, Arriva or any other companies like that getting any where NEAR this project and great video and I'm glad that they are planning to improve Wales train networks :)
Ask people in the East Midlands, Surrey, Hampshire & Dorset what their view is. If only SC didn't take so many liberties with the pensions. They also ran most of VT & it's not so great now. First do a good job on gWr though they can be prone to over reaching themselves on other projects, like WCML or buses, hence they pulled out of most bus ops. I think the main problem in Wales was being given no-growth franchises so they were stuck with limited / old trains. Arriva do alright on Chiltern, they, but they don't have nearly enough trains to run Cross Country.
Imo the Welsh government are dinosaurs when it comes to transport & the ONLY saving grace is they're finally getting some new trains in. Though it won't be nearly enough of them, as it's to replace trains that are being scrapped.
The should be the named The South East Wales Metro as it only covers the Cardiff Capital Region as it only covers half of south wales
Yep, Newport and Swansea dont exist.
Swansea metro is in the pipeline as well
There is also Swansea Bay metro and North Wales metro all are happening at the same time
@@rubenkelman4013 North wales metro wouldn't work. The area is too sparsely populated and the area that is populated would be better integrated with Merseyrail.
A North walian.
@@highpath4776 Don't know whether you actually watched the video, but... Newport is included.
Recently the Welsh government have taken direct control of TFW Rail from Keolis Amey due to the losses incurred from the pandemic.
Keolis Amey will however continue to be involved with the engineering side.
Excellent video. This coincides with Swansea projects. I've now subscribed.
what are the projects ?
Could you do a video on the Glasgow Connectivity Comission plan?
It looks a lot like the Rodalies de Catalunya system that fans out from the Barcelona metropolitan area.
I thought the Welsh Government took over operation of TFW?
They did. After a collapse in revenue as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the original franchise (which began on 14th October 2018) became financially unviable. On 7th February 2021, the Welsh Government's operator of last resort suceeded KeolisAmey Wales as operator of the Wales & Borders franchise. KeolisAmey and Transport for Wales will continue their partnership on further improvements to the TFW network, with AmeyKeolis Infrastructure Ltd delivering some key projects such as the Core Valley Lines.
@@joeymandrews Couldn't have summed it up better
@@ashleyrabot I think the Keolis Amey debacle goes back way before the pandemic www.railjournal.com/policy/welsh-government-takes-control-of-rail-franchise/
As a planner Ashley you may well be interested in the work already carried out on the modelling of battery powered trains up the valley lines (re frequency / time under conventional catenaries / battery size-capacity and regenerative braking effects ).
@@richard_wenner I'll be having a dig into this for some light weekend reading
Hi Ashley, love your videos! Keep up the good work! 😊
So rail to downtown the main lines and BRT for crosstown?
Basically yes. Its very expensive to cross the valleys with rail due to the need for tunnels and viaducts so a BRT system is a much cheaper option to provide cross valley connectivity.
Is this a through running rail line where they use it to add extra regional trains on surrounding rail lines by running the extra trains via this South Wales metro line?
It doesn't involve any additional lines, except probably doubling some single-track lines or adding passing loops - because some of the single-track sections are too long to allow a 15-minute frequency, even with the faster tram-trains that will be running. It will remain the case that the valleys just have all-stations trains into Cardiff, so no _major_ change to the organisation there. For a more in-depth look at what the plans involve, have a look at Gareth Dennis' #RailNatter episode: ua-cam.com/video/RiIo9kinLgo/v-deo.html
The biggest rail change its history??? Are you kidding. Lord Beeching gives off evil laugh in your general direction.
hope we get a Glasgow metro in the next few decades as well
My local station now has contactless pads and there are some new class 170s running
Your Welsh pronunciations aren't too bad - I've heard worse! Rhymney is something close to Rum - knee, by the way; Hirwaun is like Here - wine; Maesteg is like My's steg the last part of which rhymes with egg; and Pontypridd follows the Welsh language pronunciation of dd, which is like the -th ending of breathe, hence Pon - tee - preathe, with a p instead if a b at the eginning of the final syllable... Names beginning with Tre- are pronounced Tray followed by the rest of the name, hence Tray - Loo - iss for Trelewis; and Tray - Herbert, for Treherbert! I is pronounced ee as in see; f is pronounced as v in English; ff is produced as the English f; y is usually also ee if in thee Middle of a word and possibly hyphenated; and w is usually a short oo or ih. W and Y canbe vowels or consonants, incidentally. The emphasis is usually on the penultimate syllable, irrespective of which language is spoken by native Welsh people.
Extra bonus points if you can correctly pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch! 😂
🤣
Before you ask, no I didn't copy and paste that. I spelt that from memory. I'm 1/4 Welsh myself and I've been learning more of the language. Even though most of my Welsh ancestors passed away long before I was born, I hope I'll be doing them proud by learning it now that I'm in my 20's. Hopefully by my 30's, I'll be able to speak "Cymraeg" fluently. Thats my plan anyway
😁
If they decide to build a newer metro later, will it be called “New South Wales Metro”, potentially making one to think it’s the Australian New South Wales metro?
a metro video, and a very tidy original yellow metro in the background. coincidence?
Would you be able to do a similar breakdown of the plans put forward for a massive overhaul and expansion of mass transit planned for West Yorkshire?.
Well as we all know that Transport for Wales is replacing the older units with new rolling stocks including the Class 230, Class 231, Class 398, Class 756 and Class 769. And the Class 170 that was cascaded from Greater Anglia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_230
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_231
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_398
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_756
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_769
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_for_Wales_Rail_(2021)
Very well informed gentleman.
I shall subscribe.
The houses in the background look like London houses, so I imagine the film wasn't made in wales.
this video was a month out of date about the Operator On 7 February 2021, Transport for Wales Rail Limited, the Welsh Government's operator of last resort, succeeded KeolisAmey Wales as operator of the Wales & Borders franchise. KeolisAmey and Transport for Wales will continue a partnership on further improvements on the network, with Amey Infrastructure Wales (AIW) continuing to have an involvement in the delivering of some key projects such as the Core Valley Lines
I hope all goes through as planned but so many projects fall before even being started in S. Wales that a pattern has formed, millions spent on planning then cancelled after years of stalling.
Keolis doesn't have a great "track" record. They've cut commuter rail service substantially in Boston over their 7 years with the contract and not saved money in doing it. Hopefully things work out different with this, but if it's the same style of management don't expect even the absolute bare minimum service level put in the contract.
Transporting Wales is a devolved function, the contract in Wales is set up differently to England, TFW are in overall charge of service levels etc
As a Welsh man the pronunciations were a bit off however I've heard other Welsh people say these names incorrect to
they had a brt type thing in swansea and it failed within 5 years
I live in trethomas village near caerphilly
I live in this region and there's not a chance of this happening, the line between Newport and ebbw vale should be about 19 miles but you have do a 11 mile detour into Cardiff first. The 4 South Wales valley lines are always standing room only as the rolling stock are always breaking down. The last two winters part of the railway lines have be flooded or washed away because of poor investment in maintenance, the bus route using the A470 will be slow as there always accidents on this road rush hours are a nightmare if there's an accident you know your going to be late. This will be the Welsh government's Great white elephant project.
Well hopefully there is scope for an upgrade of the A470 with at least one bus only running lane. Is there track direct to Ebbw Vale from Newport (or track bed?). New rolling stock should improve matters.
Great video.☺️
WHEN TF ARE THEY GOING TO DEVELOP SWANSEA ?!?!?! 4 stations for a city of over 300000 people. Cardiff has more than 20 for 100000 more people
Great video! Greetings from Germany
Danke and greetings from the UK!
2:46 By local train from Cardiff to Rimini? Really? :p
You forgot to mention that some of the Valley lines are also being electrified
Never mind you mentioned at 7:30
Where's the overground goblin line history I dying to see it
On it's way! It hasn't been forgotten
Well done on saying the area names.
Just want to point out that 'f' is pronounced as a 'v'. ['ff' is pronounced as 'f'.]
So Rondda Cynnon Taf is
Ron-tha cy-non Tav.
🙂
Arriva Trains was a disaster when they were running the show!
Your pronunciations were just fine 👍
I’m sorry but he mispronounced 80% of welsh place names and even 50% of the English ones, bare minimum research wouldve fixed this. these comments will not help him improve
no they werent.
It's about time for them to have more services ! Lol. I am currently planning our trip to Wales and England & so surprised to know that their transportation service / systems aren't that great !! In countrysides & rural areas !! And illogical somewhat ...very frustrating !! Especially as a tourist ...some places which are closer on the map ,but no train goes there from Wales ,I have to go back to England to get there ,or no more than 4 services ( buses & trains ) a day available !! Those make it harder for us ,tourists to do a day trip !! So ,a great news!! But, it'll be after we'll go there ! Lol. 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎵🎤🎶💞
Correction *210.7km
I kept reading the title as "NEW South Wales" :P :P :P I live in Sydney, btw, and we're getting Metro trains everywhere now. Largely, I think, so that the incumbent government can give money to their business buddies.
Nice stuff Nice stuff
Nice video 👍
I need to subscribe
Wales, United Kingdom 🏴🇬🇧✌️
Are you Welsh??
EU still contributing when Wales voted Leave 🤯🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
If you would like to contact me. I can give you all the correct pronunciations of the names you found difficult. Easily done nowadays
Do what the tyne and wear metro will look like in 2029
Should be renamed TFSW (Transport for South Wales).
With the BRT Stagecoach and First shouldn't get their share as itis what TFW want to do therefore TFW should own it
Men of culture recognise the background music.
I'm sure you will get the welsh names right one day! start with Celtic is like the nations not the Football Team you have to brake up the others names like Tre-her-ber-et
EU?
Yes, the EU funded some of the scheme in the time the UK was a member state. Now that the UK is no longer a member state, their funding has stopped, naturally.
We've been screwed
Aberdare is pronounced Abba-Dare. Rum - Knee
south wales? yeah lets forget swansea and such
theyre in the south west wales metro apparently. the transport in swansea is now dire.
You do realise that TFW is now a non-profit publicly owned company
When will the UK wake up to the fact that practically all our train operators are foreign concerns. In fact most are foreign governments/state owned rail companies. Keolis is another example. Are you happy to pay 70% of your ever-rising fares to French State Railways (SNCF)? The other 30% hoes to Canada! Beeching regarded railways as the ‘cinderella’ mode if transport. Successive governments had and still have the same attitude. Which is not confined railways. Water and electricty are two other examples where foreign ownership and foreign governments have the power to turn off the switch and tap! Get someone else to do the work is the laid back attitude of all the political parties whilst those handpicked at the top, including the unions by the way, live a life of luxury. I wish the South Wales Metro the best of luck but the EU is hardly likely to be contributing now!
Did I hear you say we were still in the EU? If so, have you been living under a rock?
The EU Development Fund paid for some of the works Pre-Brexit. Pretty sure most people know we're out of the EU...
@@ashleyrabot Sorry, I must have misheard. Mind you, the UK always pid in far more to the EU than it got back in grants.
Rhondda = Ron th a
Liberate Hong Kong
Turn up and go service is departures every few minutes not 15mins apart
That is most definitely not turn up and go
If you’re used to your transport getting London funding maybe. 15 minutes is absolutely turn up and go.
@@jayamber4448 incorrect
@@jayamber4448 The official national definition of turn-up-and-go is every 10 minutes or less
You 're speaking English-no need to apologize.
sts.
No new rail lines just going to be for Cardiff and suburbs, the rest is just a rebadging and smoke and mirrors.
Ah, ah, ah...not EU funding... UK funding. This was always being given our own money, back. That is not a 3rd party funder.
Yes but the EU had control of the pursestrings. Now the UK government has control - will they be as generous?
It’s EU funding which has to go to Wales as it was one of the EU’s poorest regions. Westminster would never prioritise Wales like the EU has for 40 or so years...
The EU didnt contribite any, lets get it straight. We were net contributors so that money was actually UK taxpayer money, ie me and you. We all used to pay £166 a year for the EU so they could give a scheme like this 140 million (or whatever it was) and you give them credit for it !!! It was the Uk taxpayer that gave the money not the EU