All Transport for Wales Rail articles
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Rail Business UKRequest to Stop button ready for trial at Welsh stations
UK: Transport for Wales is to trial a prototype Request to Stop system incorporating train running information and a button which passengers arriving at station can push to alert the driver of the next train to the need to call at a request stop. This removes ...
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Rail Business UKContactless PAYG launched in South Wales
UK: Transport for Wales has launched a contactless card Pay-As-You-Go pilot project covering journeys between Cardiff Central, Newport and Pontyclun. The Ebbw Vale line will be covered next, and the scheme is to be expanded to 95 stations across South Wales during 2024. Passengers can tap ...
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Rail Business UKEbbw Vale line enhancement programme completed
UK: Network Rail has completed a two-year project to upgrade the Ebbw Vale line to enable the operation of hourly direct trains to Newport from the December 10 timetable change; these will run in addition to the existing hourly service to Cardiff. The Ebbw Vale line ...
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Rail Business UKFive stations proposed in southeast Wales
UK: Transport for Wales has begun public consultation on plans for five new stations between Cardiff Central and Severn Tunnel Junction. These would be at Cardiff East, Newport West, Somerton, Llanwern and Magor & Undy. Comments are also invited on train services between Cardiff, Bristol and ...
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Rail Business UKSignalbox develops Transport for Wales live train map
UK: Transport for Wales Rail has worked with technology company Signalbox to develop a live digital map showing the location of all its trains, enabling passengers to view their journey in real time and see expected arrival times at each station. Signalbox currently uses live data ...
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Rail Business UKWelsh government seeks plan to improve Wrexham – Bidston line performance
UK: Following a long period of disruption, the Welsh government’s Deputy Minister for Climate Change Lee Waters has asked Transport for Wales Rail to develop a plan to improve services on the Wrexham – Bidston Borderlands line. Earlier in the year, services had been suspended for ...
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Rail Business UKAugmented reality station maps designed to assist passengers
UK: Indoor wayfinding company Briteyellow has created augmented reality maps of six of the largest stations served by Transport for Wales, to help passengers locate facilities such as information screens, lifts, toilets, help points and waiting rooms. It is hoped the AR maps can be used ...
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Rail Business UKClass 230s finally enter service with Transport for Wales
UK: Transport for Wales has run its first Class 230 battery-diesel hybrid trainset in passenger service on the Wrexham – Bidston Borderlands Line. Tony Miles reports.
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Rail Business UKTransport for Wales Class 175s face slow return to traffic
UK: The return of Transport for Wales’ Class 175 DMU fleet to full service will be a slow process, according to Chief Operating Officer Jan Chaudhry van der Velde. Most of the fleet was taken out of service at the beginning of March after a series ...
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Rail Business UKTransport for Wales launches Class 231 Flirt DMUs
UK: Transport for Wales officially launched its fleet of Stadler Flirt Class 231 diesel multiple-units into revenue service with a ceremony at Caerphilly on March 29, at which unit 231001 was named ‘Sultan’. Ordered from Stadler as part of a £800m fleet replacement programme, the 11 ...
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Metro Report InternationalSouth Wales Metro tram-train delivered as route blockade announced
UK: The first of the Stadler Class 398 tram-trains for South Wales Metro services arrived at Transport for Wales’ Taff’s Well depot by road on the night of March 21. This follows several months of testing at Network Rail’s Rail Innovation & Development Centre at Melton ...
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Rail Business UKFirstClass to supply depot safety and control system for Cardiff Canton
UK: FirstClass Safety & Control has been awarded a contract to install a depot protection control system at Transport for Wales Rail’s Cardiff Canton site. This will combine FirstClass’s depot protection system with turnout controls, driver destination boards and driver location information boards, managed using its ...
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Rail Business UKTfW Rail scales back Class 175 DMU operation following ‘thermal events’
UK: Following a series of underbody fires, TfW Rail has stood down a significant proportion of its Class 175 diesel multiple-unit fleet from March 2 until each set has undergone an intensive cleaning process. Chief Operations Officer Jan Chaudhry van der Velde and Engineering Director Ryan ...
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Rail Business UKReliability headaches hinder Welsh train fleet renewal
UK: Transport for Wales updates Rail Business UK on progress with its rolling stock renewal programme.
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Rail Business UKWrexham line compromise shows the need for more capacity
UK: Capacity has been allocated to enable an increase in passenger services between Wrexham and Bidston, but local stakeholders say the compromise required shows the need for urgent investment in the route.
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Rail Business UKSoft launch for Transport for Wales Class 197 DMUs
UK: The first of the 77-strong fleet of Class 197 diesel multiple-units entered service with Transport for Wales Rail on November 14. Without any pre-announcement or ceremony, unit 197 004 carried its first passengers on the 05.30 from Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog, spending the rest ...
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Rail Business UKWelsh tri-mode multiple-unit on show in Berlin
INNOTRANS: One of the tri-mode Flirt UK multiple-units capable of operation on diesel, 25 kV 50 Hz electric and battery power which Stadler is supplying to Transport for Wales is on show at the InnoTrans trade fair, ahead of entry into service later this year. ...
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Rail Business UKCardiff Valleys Class 398 tram-train unveiled at InnoTrans
INNOTRANS: One of the Citylink Class 398 electric-battery tram-trains which Stadler is building for South Wales Metro services on the branch lines around Cardiff has been unveiled at the InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin. Stadler’s Citylink is a family of modular light rail vehicles designed to ...
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Rail Business UKRevised Cardiff Bay branch plans confirmed
UK: Transport for Wales has confirmed revised plans for electrification of the Cardiff Bay branch as part of the the Core Valleys Lines upgrading programme. Plans for a short extension of the branch from the current terminus to The Flourish have been dropped. Instead the existing ...
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Rail Business UKTrain instead of plane as Welsh government ends Anglesey – Cardiff flights
UK: Publicly-supported flights between Cardiff and Anglesey will not resume, the Welsh government has announced, with rail offering a viable alternative and the funding to be used to improve public transport in North Wales. The twice-daily flights operated by Eastern Airways under a Public Service Obligation ...