Recent content by tomwills98

IIRC, you send a qualified nature person to check for signs of nesting. If no nesting cut down as normal, if there is you make a 5 metre boundary around it and move on to the next tree. I guess depending on the necessity of the work you either check regularly to see if the bird has moved on or...

So which was the newest Newport, or Newtown :lol:

And single line working now, with Bridgend-Cardiff via Pencoed reopen after a tree was removed

There's a new person there now and the hours are updated on the NRE website, not sure if they're doing phone orders though

The Baglan Bay to Chirk log train hauled by a Colas 56. Comes past about 7am for a nice alarm clock and goes back around 5pm. On a good day when the wind's right you can hear it rumbling up the hill between Bridgend and Pencoed...

One of these? A470 coming out of Cardiff

Machynlleth, what a fun couple of days that was to deal with. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58406885

They've been due a refurb for the last few years. Do TfW have to hand them back to the ROSCO in same or better state than what they were given in?

So how do people with sight impairments manage? Yes, there's a lot of spam on the tannoy, but some of it is vital information for people who are unable to read the info screens.

platform 3 at Bridgend, the west facing bay platform only accessible from the Maesteg branch. Used when the Maestegs are really late and terminate there to work back, usually when something's blocking the line to Cardiff too.

I think it was about 3/4 weeks for a SCAAT, this was the longest as I guess they're sifting the most people. Then after that it was about a week for each one. Check the junk mail too as mine ended up there...

went up to York at the start of September and guard was out then I know, four electrified trains per hour, terrible

Just because Arriva's gone doesn't mean the effects of that franchise are still felt. 15 years of no investment and growth isn't going to be undone in three. Scope to lengthen trains? thirty pacers have gone to be replaced by a few barely working 769's, and 3rd/4th hand 153's. I think the only...

I think Cardiff Central's is "will the inspector of the line please come to the carriage depot"

Back when I first started working on the railway with my mate, went down to Dawlish for day but only got our tickets to Exeter as we didn't know what we were going to do. Got back on the train at Dawlish Warren and couldn't use the machine as we had privs so waited for the guard to come around...