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The new TfW website is vague about when specific timetable changes will be implemented on the Core Valley Lines, and I noticed that the CVL was left out of the recent announcement of revised TT changes over the next few years.The dates for everything are rather 'fuzzy' and are definitely subject to change. This was my understanding from earlier in the year though though.
The new Taff's Well control centre and depot to start operation from November 2022, but this will be a transition and won't happen all at once.
From soon after this, the new Class 398s will gradually be introduced. The current plan is they'll operate on all lines from the get-go along with the Sprinters.
Then all infrastructure to be ready by May 2023 which is the earliest date for any increase in schedules. Four per-hour can't happen until all Sprinters are off the CVL due to timings of course.
Things do seem to have slipped a bit so I am guessing this is a bit unlikely.
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What improvements can you expect from the South Wales Metro?
We’ll be running more weekday and Sunday services than ever before:
Weekdays
- four services per hour between Cardiff and the Heads of each Valley
- two of the four services from Treherbert, Aberdare and Merthyr Tydfil will extend from Cardiff to Cardiff Bay
- an extra service per hour between Cardiff and Bridgend via the Vale of Glamorgan Line from December 2023
- two services per hour between Cardiff and Shrewsbury via Abergavenny from December 2022
- an hourly service between Cardiff and Cheltenham via Chepstow from December 2022
Sundays
While you can expect more frequent rail services across much of our network from 2022, we’ll be introducing a number of improvements in the Cardiff Capital Region before 2022.
- two services per hour on Sundays between Cardiff and the Heads of each Valley
- the first ever Sunday service on the Coryton and City Lines, with an hourly service from December 2023
- the first ever Sunday service on the Maesteg Line, with one service every two hours from December 2019, increasing to an hourly service from December 2023
- an extra service per hour between Cardiff and Bridgend via the Vale of Glamorgan Line from December 2024
- an hourly service between Cardiff and Cheltenham via Chepstow from December 2023