Rails in Wales. Infrastructure update, Feb 2024
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Travel with us as we check the improvements in track, stations and signalling in Aberdare, Treforest, Taffs Well, Ninian Park and Canton Depot and finally Coryton. Also traction availability in Canton and more trams in Taffs Well. Otherwise a quiet day due to another national rail strike.
All's well Taffs Well. Nice video footage and a steady hand around the bend. Nice addition to your collection Mike. 🚊🚉
More to come soon, now trains are running up to Treherbert
Thank you for sharing this FANTASTIC tour and insights into the major changes taking place! Personally I’m delighted to see that rail is doing well in and around Cardiff - a proper world-class city. Obviously sad to see the big heavies gone, but comparing Barry Docks in the 1930s with what we saw in the 70s, old timers then were depressed by the change! Definitely need to arrange myself a day ranger down there soon. Thanks again for posting this positive railway news!
"Explore Cardiff and Valleys" rover is the ticket to buy, £9.20 for we pensioners!
More to come next week.
Thank you Mike for this Infrastructure Update. Great video. Phil Evans
Interesting and enjoyable. Thank you for taking and posting.
Monmouth - a town effectively ignored by the Cardiff Metro scheme. No rail link and a totally inadequate bus service. You can tell that the town and its hinterland are of absolutely no consequence to the Welsh Assembly - we are far too posh and prosperous to require public transport!
I live in a similar town in South Wales, missed by the GWR, but it is too deep in a valley and was passed 5 mile further north.
Thanks for the update on what's happening back in the Cardiff Valleys. Mega investment.
I suppose never did anyone ever dream of trains powered by overhead electrical wires travelling to Coryton!
Does Treforest Trading Estate station still exist?
Merthyr service stops here
@@andrewbutler6477 Thanks. Only at peak times, I guess?
Good video, great to see how work is progressing.
Last time I visited Cardiff and Pontypridd was is in mid 2019, just in time to catch the last of the TfW Pacers. I'm definitely going to make a return visit over a couple of days to explore the network when all the new trains and services are running.
Buy a "Explore Cardiff and Valleys" rover ticket. I'm a pensioner and it only cost me £9.20 for all the Valleys.
3:08 These DMU’s are soooo loud you can’t even hear the announcement…
Thanks for another interesting video Mike, I've never been to Coryton before. Were you on the platform at Dinas Powys at lunchtime today?
Peter
No, this time it wasn't me. I'm the 80 year old guy with the white hair and video camera ( not a mobile!)
Ha ha, this Guy had an SLR and was munching on a sandwich@@TheMichaelWilcock2016Railways
The Avocet Rail Users Group in Devon are eyeing up those ancient 150 units hoping they get some passed down from TfW. Now that sums up the sheer despair and desperation
They're a step up from Pacers
They are still great trains with a new years left in these warriors
A Class 150/2 is a right old workhorse that has kept the Valley network running for 35 years plus so I think anyone who takes them on would have a good,old horse on their hands.
150's are a bit noisy but the seats are more comfortable than those on the mew 197's
@@letrainavapeur to be honest being more comfortable than a 197 isn’t difficult as they are utterly horrendous when sat anywhere near a bogie.
New isn't always better than the old. Trams are OK. But new unit trains that don't have windows that can be pulled open to let fresh air in are a death trap.
Does that apply to buses too??
Plus those awful "ironing board" seats
More people are killed from being thrown out of train windows, you could always smash them in emergency and open windows let noise in and stop the air con working correctly