This is going to be a massive inconvenience for current passengers from Aberdare who travel to Llandaf (me), Cathays and Queen Street. I don't have any figures but I'd guess it's about half the train. Using the current timetable it will involve changing trains at Ponty/Trefforest/Taffs Well/Radyr and waiting 15 minutes for the next train down. That's a pretty long wait when you're used to getting there directly. Hopefully the extra trains from Ponty will be slotted into that gap but we all know that when they're short of train crew or "more trains than usual are being repaired" that's the service that will get axed. Wouldn't it make more sense for the the extra trains from Ponty to go via the City Line rather than pissing off the existing passengers? It's not so bad for me as Danescourt, Fairwater and Waun Gron Park are all about the same distance from my place of work as Llandaf is. The most annoying thing though is the current fare system which uses zones to calculate the fare but doesn't show zones on the ticket. If I bought a ticket to Fairwater it wouldn't be valid to travel back from Llandaf even though it's in the same zone. I could buy a ticket to Central which would be valid for both routes but it's an extra 2 quid. At the moment I've got a weekly ticket to go between Aberdare and Maesteg which means I can go anywhere on the Vale of Glamorgan line (except Penarth) but if I wanted to go to Porth (ok, it's closed at the moment) or Quakers Yard which are in the same "zone" as Aberdare it would cost me about 4 quid. When I buy a weekly with the intention of using it for Cardiff Central I always make sure to buy it to a station way beyond as it's exactly the same price. I usually choose Maesteg as it gives you more options if you do actually choose to use it but sometimes I go for Rhymney or Ebbw Vale.