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Splitting North - South Wales services, especially Cardiff to Holyhead, is just not going to happen, period. Regardless of whether it makes operational sense, if you think TfW will even consider splitting south Wales/Cardiff to Holyhead services, you clearly don't understand the politics of the...

I agree entirely. But I don't even think Labour will consider a name such as "Rail England". Starmer is intent on wrapping Labour in the Union Jack just as much as the Tories are, look at the name for the publicly owned energy company he came up with - "Great British Energy" :rolleyes: We might...

The latest news article speculating that GBR is "set to be scrapped" from iNews. Of course, Truss could well be gone by the end of the year, and another PM could be in place by January, with Shapps et al back in cabinet to revive GBR...

Two articles have appeared in The Guardian recently and iNews today, speculating that under PM Liz Truss, GBR looks like it'll get scrapped. To add to this speculation, Modern Railways recently reported that the legislation needed to create GBR has been deferred. If the industry stays in limbo...

The same applies to Wales, where the Tories have not won an election for over 100 years, since the Labour party was formed. Seeing as ScotRail and TfW will both have their own HQ's in Scotland & Wales, it was never going to be located anywhere other than in England regardless. But...

Or talking about it in the correct way, DfT won't pay Network Rail to electrify their own infrastructure, hence why the VoG and Penarth lines are not being electrified, even though it makes operational sense. Welsh Govt own the CVL and have secured the funding from various sources to electrify...

When control of signalling is transferred to Taffs Well, all signallers on the CVL will work for TfW

It's only since Welsh Govt took control of the W&B franchise that we've seen any real investment in services in Wales, since the Sprinter fleet was introduced by BR in the 1980s. The DfT were in control under ATW for 15 years and through that whole time invested a few hundred thousand in...

Yes, they have. Thankfully all trains must now be compliant for disabled people

Are you aware of the extensive testing, thousands of fault free running miles, and crew training that's needed before any new trains can enter into service? These are UK-wide standards that must be met for all new trains. You can't just put a new train into service days after it's delivered...

The massive caveat to this consultation is that there's a strong possibility that there will be a new Prime Minister and/or government (whether it's Conservative or Labour) before the legislation for GBR is written and laid before Parliament. So as with everything in Westminster politics this...

Yes, and because the 37s + Mk2s on the Rhymney line were ridiculously unreliable, on a par with the 769s. The 37s + Mk2s had a 3 month PRM derogation until early March 2020, but by then TfW had had enough of their unreliability and binned them off, taking on more 153s to replace them.

Not a chance, because slam door Mk 3's are not PRM complaint. Among many other operational reasons, including crew training, traction knowledge etc. Non-PRM complaint trains are never coming back, no matter how much this forum might want them to. Hopefully this is the last summer that TfW will...

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/disgraceful-scene-train-cardiff-day-24205320 I'm not one to read Wales Online 'clickbait' articles, but this was pointed out to me today, and I must admit it shocked me. Yes, I know TfW have chronic DMU availability issues, the legacy of 15 years of...

Maybe not, but TfW own the station buildings now, so I doubt they'll leave it in the state it is long term

"TfW are outrageously bad at pretty much everything", whilst they push forward the biggest investment in rolling stock and infrastructure the railway in Wales has seen for generations :rolleyes: 1654554543 Track renewals, double tracking, piling for electrification masts, erecting...

No, that's fantasy land stuff

Since March 2020, Welsh Government have owned the Core Valley lines north of Cardiff Queen Street to Treherbert, Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, as well as the City line between Ninian Park and Radyr, and Cardiff Queen Street to Coryton. Transport for Wales manages the lines on behalf of...

I think Transport for Wales is now the only major TOC in Britain that is not in dispute with ASLEF or the RMT. But of course if Network Rail staff go on strike, no trains will be able to run in Wales & the English Borders anyway.

Since 2018, TfW has been on a massive recruitment drive to both replace retiring train crew and recruit extra crew. But unfortunately a global pandemic got in the way of training up those staff, whilst long serving staff continued to retire.