Cardiff-Builth Road

welsh1980

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Cardiff-Builth Road

« on: July 22, 2013, 21:18:34 »

The Royal Welsh Show train between Cardiff-Builth Road and return was a 153 and 150 today. I think usually its a pair of 150s.

How are Arriva coping this week with the other Heart of Wales trains, are they being strengthened to 2 or 3 car to meet demand? And where are the extra units coming from?


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Chris from Nailsea

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Re: Cardiff-Builth Road

« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2013, 21:32:42 »

Due to my complete lack of local knowledge on that particular subject, welsh1980, I'm sorry that I cannot provide any answer to your queries.

However, I can offer you a warm welcome to the Coffee Shop forum in the meantime, and I'm sure some of our established Welsh members will be able to provide some more information here!


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welsh1980

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Re: Cardiff-Builth Road

« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2013, 23:05:22 »

Thanks for the welcome!


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Re: Cardiff-Builth Road

« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2013, 19:28:13 »

I noticed this extra service yesterday while at Pyle station awaiting the 07:51 Swansea service which I was traveling onto Baglan.

Not often I can say Pyle has a very good frequent service (i.e. departures orwards Port Talbot at 07:51, 08:10 & 08:20 although the 08:10 was going to Builth Road.)

My return train from Baglan however was not as great. It is supposed to depart Baglan at 13:32 instead because of a delay somewhere which required the train to be held in Swansea until the 13:28 Swansea - London Paddington service had departed it eventually arrived at 13:55.

A class 150 was the traction and there was very little people onboad, no surprise considering the hst was only 7 minutes in front of it at some point.

As for the Swanline services I will be glad when they go over to EMU^▸ 's and we get a better frequency such as a half hourly service like what was planned originally


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Re: Cardiff-Builth Road

« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2013, 19:34:55 »

They usually try to provide 150+153 Combos for the normal services and 2x150 for the Special. However, I travelled on a 2x150 Combo on 14 04 Shrewsbury to Swansea. There are enough Units allocated and the norm is to work round Maintenance schedules to provide the additional capacity.


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