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TfW ‘to shake up train timetables’ story This is on the BBC Wales News website but I’m afraid that I have lost the ability to do anything other than post the link. In essence, it’s a report on TfW Chief Executive James Price’s meeting today in Westminster with the Welsh Affairs Select...

This is the update sent out by TfW today detailing delays to service enhancements originally planned for December 2023: https://transportforwales.cmail20.com/t/t-e-ztiihuk-jijtkuydiy-h/

Don’t ask me how I know, but Turkmenistan Railways has a new app on IOS (Turkmenistan Railways), and an updated website - railway.gov.tm It’s only in Turkmen or Russian though...

Has a train stopping at, or even better, terminating at Tenby ever departed from platform 10b at Birmingham New Street? Or arrived there? What larks that would be... Any other similar examples?

Are the regular layovers at Pembroke Dock the longest at any distant termini (in this case, without permanent stabling and staffing facilities) on the network? Apart from the first and last services of the day, which turn around pretty quickly, the wait between arrival and departure on the...

I wonder if there’s any interest in starting a new thread devoted to the Whitland - Pembroke Dock line, given recent developments on it, and the prospect of changes in the future. Not only has it been cleared, pending minor work in two places, for the 800 series, and has seen the last passenger...

As ATW start talking to their successors regarding an orderly handover in the autumn, perhaps it’s time to assess their time on the franchise. My view? It’s been underwhelming. They showed little interest in providing more than they needed to: the continued lack of power points on their...

I wonder if anyone knows why 654Z [on Real Time Trains] is going down to Tenby overnight tonight from Whitland, please? Thanks in advance.

A report in the Western Mail today - and also on the Wales Online website - quotes UK Transport Secretary Chris Grayling stating that electrification will not progress past Cardiff during the lifetime of this current Parliament. He says that train times and seating capacity will not be affected...

The line from Whitland to Pembroke Dock will be closed for five days from Monday 24 April for engineering works. Does anyone know the nature and extent of these works, please? I'm ruling out electrification...

Is it just me, but on all their advertising announcing the fact that more and more Arriva Trains Wales units are being fitted with wifi, might they have pointed out that this is actually a (UK) Department for Transport initiative?

The current station opened on 4 September 1866, with the connection of the existing line from Pembroke Dock onwards from Tenby to Whitland. Now unstaffed, and has seen better days, but it survived the Beeching Axe fifty years ago, and looks set to last a lot longer, albeit with the removal of...

I noticed a solitary worker, armed with long handled hammer and wrench (sorry if this has already become too technical) walking between Penally and Tenby the other Sunday morning, banging a few things here and there (there I go again). It led me to wonder what the regular maintenance regime...

With the Welsh Assembly Government seemingly interested in exercising more control over the provision of rail services in Wales once the current Wales and Borders arrangements end (2017?), I wonder what people on this forum feel about Arriva Trains Wales's performance over the period of the...