Recent content by sefyllian

The filename will be based on UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), but our local time is now BST, which is an hour ahead.

I think they must be planning expansion of platform 0. The render of the north entrance shows a substantial new building on the site of the M&S, including an extra storey for passenger facilities at platform level and presumably extending west across the small carpark on that side. I doubt they...

The TfW part will be electrified, or at least was planned to be, from Cardiff Bay to just north of Butetown, then over to Central. Shown on the latest plan (post 6765). The part from north of Butetown to Queen St won’t be electrified as it’ll still be Network Rail infrastructure.

There are six planned stations on the SWML between Cardiff and Severn Tunnel Junction. Five developed by TfW, plus Cardiff Parkway as an independent project. Most of that consultation is indeed about the 5 TfW stations, but the part about service patterns includes Cardiff Parkway (see Service...

TfW ran a consultation last year on possible service options for the new stations on the South Wales main line. The consulation document has options for two, three and four tph. Basically, the Cheltenham Spa services would stop there, plus proposed new Cardiff Central–Bristol Temple Meads...

It doesn’t add 10 minutes, it adds 4 minutes. So what you’re saying is that adding 4 minutes to your own journey is completely unbearable, but adding 4 minutes to other people's journeys (by making them walk from Harbour City to MediaCity) is totally acceptable. OK...

Let’s just hope that no-one tells Andy Burnham how many semaphore signals are still in use.

The sleeper just counts as one day (the day of departure). If you then travel on any other services, that’s another day. Details: What is a travel day?

For info, here’s the full text of the official announcement, which has some more details than the BBC report, including the reference to the Deganwy crossing, the intention to install temporary footbridges on the mainline before building permanent accessible ones (which suggests they’re keen to...

I was answering @markymark2000's question in post #19 about this quote from the Nation.cymru article:

Is it this one here? [Google Streetview link] Looks like they may have some trouble, as they’ve tried (and failed) to close it before according to this BBC report from 2021.

Yes that’s simply how you say the time in Welsh. As Tom says, trying to say “Un deg saith…” for 17:00 sounds wrong and feels unnatural (even though there’s no real reason it should, it just goes against accepted practice). The closest equivalent I can think of is if you tried saying a year like...

The 4th Doctor and Romana take the Paris Metro in City of Death from 1979 (one of the very few classic stories filmed abroad?)

The file for the map is dated May 2021 so I guess they just haven’t updated it yet!

Metro includes Maesteg and Ebbw Vale, and as far east as Abergavenny and Severn Tunnel Junction – there’s a map on the on TfW Metro site. I thought the branding wasn’t on the 231s because they would also be going to Cheltenham Spa.