But instead of Rhymney line trains just running to Penarth they will also be going to Barry and Bridgend. I also thought I'd seen suggestions that 231s were going to temporarily move over to the Pontypridd routes.
(Does CVL exclude Rhymney? - I thought it meant core valley lines and included the Rhymney Line).
This is part of a major change to train routing which I would have expected to be well advertised in advance.
Instead all we seem to have is a news story you can find on their web site if you go looking for it that makes a big point of improved frequences, but doesn't explicitly mention the fact that many people that currently have through journeys will have to change.
They do offer a map for the new arrangements (with nice colours for the different lines)...but it's bizarrely chopped off just below Cardiff Central (including losing the label for Central) and doesn't show what trains do south of there. Though if you look carefully you can just see that it can only be the Coryton and Rhymney lines that do go to Barry and Penarth.
Or am I missing something?
I don't follow them on Facebook - is all the information there perhaps?
Ah there is some information on Twitter, including a map that isn't chopped off.
Though it might be nice if as well as trumpeting the improvements they also explicitly mentioned the various journeys which will be made less convenient in the new timetable - and the introduction of a reduced and irregular service to the Bay (two gaps of 18 minutes per hour between trains rather than every 12 minutes as at present).
I realise that this is an interim timetable with more trains planned in the future and I don't see what they would have to lose by pointing this out, rather than just making it seem at first glance as if things are only getting better.
I don't think that a policy of only announcing good news and leaving people to work out the bad news for themselves gives the best impression of an organisation.
I'd also have thought that posters at stations giving at least the same information as on Twitter would be a good idea but maybe they just haven't got round to that yet.
Ah - there's also a link on Twitter to a good description of the changes (and what they mean for people making various journeys) on the TfW web site at
https://tfw.wales/projects/metro/south-wales-metro/june-2024
(Too complex to quote here).
Maybe I'm being thick but I went looking for something like this on the TfW web site and failed miserably.