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    ATW: 'No trains' after Ed Sheeran concert in Cardiff this Sunday

    Keilos Amey have said that: "there will be an extra 294 services across Wales on Sundays, an increase of 61%, creating a true 7-day service for the first time" This will include going from the current 1tp2h on the Valleys to 2tph from 2023. How on earth will they achieve this by relying on...
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    ATW: 'No trains' after Ed Sheeran concert in Cardiff this Sunday

    Why wouldn't ASLEF tolerate it? If ASLEF won't tolerate new drivers having contracts with Sundays in the working week (whilst existing drivers don't), as well as not tolerating existing drivers having their contracts changed to bring Sundays into the standard week, you're basically saying...
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    Keolis Amey Wales - Future Rolling Stock

    If this is true, and I fully suspect it is, it's a shocking abdication of responsibility. It explains why the whole process was carried out in top secret, why there has been a desperate power grab for the 'Core Valley lines', and why there was not an ITT. Anyone seen the much promised ITT yet...
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    ATW: 'No trains' after Ed Sheeran concert in Cardiff this Sunday

    Scheduled finish time of 2230, all last trains up the Valleys and to the Vale of Glamorgan on Sundays are 10pm ish. Last trains are: Aberdare 1941 Merthyr Tydfil 2026 Rhymney 2116 Treherbert 2206 Barry 2225 (the only line with a resemblence of a decent Sunday service) Even I didn't realise how...
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    ATW: 'No trains' after Ed Sheeran concert in Cardiff this Sunday

    The 2003 SRA specified Wales and Borders franchise was deeply flawed before it had even begun. The powers that be were well aware of this and have been since 2003. It was a 15 year, standstill, no allowance for growth franchise. Essentially Wales was told you're not allowed anymore trains, no...
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    ATW: 'No trains' after Ed Sheeran concert in Cardiff this Sunday

    Barry and Pontypridd, or anywhere in the Valleys, are not 'distant' from Cardiff! People from Barry or Pontypridd should not be expected to have to book into a hotel on Sunday night just because ATW won't provide a service home after the event, esp as most people will have work on Monday...
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    ATW: 'No trains' after Ed Sheeran concert in Cardiff this Sunday

    As @Envoy alluded to, and as I was trying to say as sensitively as possible in my argument, does it matter what days are rest days when you work in an industry that provides a 7 day service? The NHS doesn't rely on nurses and junior doctors volunteering to work Sundays. It's written into...
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    ATW: 'No trains' after Ed Sheeran concert in Cardiff this Sunday

    In 2018 it doesn't and it shouldn't. I told someone recently that the railways rely on volunteers to work trains on Sundays, and if there aren't enough volunteers, trains are cancelled, and they were genuinely shocked and stunned. Is there any other public service that provides a 7 day service...
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    ATW: 'No trains' after Ed Sheeran concert in Cardiff this Sunday

    ATW have confirmed that no extra trains (above the usual Sunday service level) will be put on to get fans home, mainly to the Valleys and the Vale of Glamorgan, after the Ed Sheeran concert at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff this Sunday night. So how are fans who have taken the train in to...
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    Keolis Amey Wales - Future Rolling Stock

    Don't be silly, don't you know that Welsh Government has NO control over Network Rail? Nasty Westminster prevents WG from doing anything with NR. They're not even allowed to give money to NR to fund improvements to rail infrastructure in Wales themselves (*cough* Vale of Glamorgan re-opening...
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    Keolis Amey Wales - Future Rolling Stock

    Edwina Hart, Ken Skates, Carwyn Jones and TfW are the ones to blame and responsible for the fleet crisis facing Wales. They were warned in 2013 to start preparing immediately to modify Wales' trains and at least get a plan in place. They did nothing and ignored all advice from the ROSCOs and...
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    Keolis Amey Wales - Future Rolling Stock

    All we've heard is that ATW would be most likely to use them on Penarth - Bargoed/Rhymney, but I doubt ATW will need to be worried about running 769s in service.
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    Keolis Amey Wales - Future Rolling Stock

    I'm not 100% sure myself, something to do with throw on curves and/or platforms? @PHILIPE knows I think. The Class 769 thread is increasingly pessimistic. What are the realistic options to save Wales' PRM mods and Pacer replacement plan if the 769s fail to materialise this year? There's the...
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    Porterbrook Cl.769 'Flex' trains from 319s, initially for Northern

    How quickly can Vivarail build 230s though? The 769s are supposed to be in service with Northern and ATW right now. Meanwhile 31/12/2019 is only 18 months away and counting. Derogations in Wales must now be inevitable. Wales' entire PRM mods and Pacer replacement plan is based on getting up to 9...
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    Keolis Amey Wales - Future Rolling Stock

    A better option would be to re-arrange services into the 2023 diagrams earlier. You can already get 6tph from Caerphilly. Or sort out the restriction at Taffs Well than bans any coaches over 20m, although granted it's not worth it for the sake of 153s working up there for 2 or 3 years. Surely...
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    Keolis Amey Wales - Future Rolling Stock

    True, but don't forget coaches over 20m are banned north of Radyr, which immediately excludes 153s from Bridgend/Barry - Aberdare/ Merthyr/Treherbert diagrams. Seeing as the 769s are thought to be going on Penarth - Bargoed/Rhymney diagrams, outside of the Valleys, apart from Ebbw Vale, it's...
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    Keolis Amey Wales - Future Rolling Stock

    Has the work actually started yet, or are we still waiting for the 769s? The clock is ticking.
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    Keolis Amey Wales - Future Rolling Stock

    So the 153s will only be able to provide 'extra' trains to release 150s for PRM work for 6 - 7 months next year, before they will have to be permanently attached to other trains and so whilst boosting capacity of existing trains, won't help to increase the number of trains running overall and...
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    Keolis Amey Wales - Future Rolling Stock

    Yes but you also can't have 153s (or any train) running around West and rural Wales without toilets. It's not the Metro.
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    South Wales 'Metro' updates

    All of the Stadler City-Link tram-trains will be high floor, current platform height, running as trains on existing HR infrastructure. There's a short piece on the Valley lines on pg. 66 of the latest issue of RAIL magazine.

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