Trains from Heath / llanhishen

[UNDERHILL1927]

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No worries mate. Yeah was good service that. At be we should start a 2 man petition.

🤣🤣 it was always decently full, I've only just started using it and they take it away 🤣

[Michael Morris]

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Looks like it might only be a temporary disruption.

This was on TFW website

City Line / Coryton line:

An increase to two services per hour. However due to essential restoration work to a town centre railway bridge, there will be no direct services* between Coryton and Radyr. Services will run between Coryton and Cardiff Bay and between Radyr and Cardiff Central. Please use other services to connect between Cardiff Queen Street and Cardiff Central.

* with the exception of the direct 0745 Coryton to Radyr and 1459 Radyr to Coryton services (Monday – Friday).

[UNDERHILL1927]

Re: Trains from Heath / llanhishen

Looks like it might only be a temporary disruption.

This was on TFW website

City Line / Coryton line:

An increase to two services per hour. However due to essential restoration work to a town centre railway bridge, there will be no direct services* between Coryton and Radyr. Services will run between Coryton and Cardiff Bay and between Radyr and Cardiff Central. Please use other services to connect between Cardiff Queen Street and Cardiff Central.

* with the exception of the direct 0745 Coryton to Radyr and 1459 Radyr to Coryton services (Monday – Friday).

Ah thank you Mike. 👏

[JamesWales]

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I think the Coryton - Bay - Coryton change is at least semi-permanent until anything more than a half hourly service to the Bay can be justified. WFH is really damaging sustainable transport networks.

More widely it's shocking how unco-ordinated the club, TfW and Cardiff Council are on getting more of us to get the train to games.

[light up the darkness]

Re: Trains from Heath / llanhishen

I think the Coryton - Bay - Coryton change is at least semi-permanent until anything more than a half hourly service to the Bay can be justified. WFH is really damaging sustainable transport networks.

More widely it's shocking how unco-ordinated the club, TfW and Cardiff Council are on getting more of us to get the train to games.

TfW and organisation of and communication about trains on match days are best viewed when Wales rugby are playing. Central station is a disaster area especially after the game ends

[Its been emotional]

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It's Temporary until Network Rail fix the bridge that's stopping the Cardiff Bay service going to and from Queens St platform 1/Cardiff Bay

[UNDERHILL1927]

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It's Temporary until Network Rail fix the bridge that's stopping the Cardiff Bay service going to and from Queens St platform 1/Cardiff Bay

4 years then? 🤣

[Fine Lines]

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It's Temporary until Network Rail fix the bridge that's stopping the Cardiff Bay service going to and from Queens St platform 1/Cardiff Bay

Nice one. Hopefully the work be fixed done soon. But I’m not optimistic.

The options of getting back and fore the stadium are terrible. No shuttle bus from town. Buses a complete lottery after the game. Cat park only for permits only ? ( is this correct?)

[the other bob wilson]

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Judging by the message posted earlier in the thread, I assume I'm right in thinking that if I were to start using the train to get to games again, the service from Treherbert, which enters Cardiff via Llandaff and Cathays, is not affected, so I could still get a train straight to Cardiff Central and change for Ninian Park there, whereas if I got out at Queen Street station, which I used to prefer doing to change trains, I'd have to go via the Bay?

[Llanishen Bull]

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City line trains to Radyr, via Ninian Park, are starting at Central atm, so yes, go via Central. It may be quicker to change at Radyr and get a city line train to Ninian Park, worth checking.

[Its been emotional]

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Judging by the message posted earlier in the thread, I assume I'm right in thinking that if I were to start using the train to get to games again, the service from Treherbert, which enters Cardiff via Llandaff and Cathays, is not affected, so I could still get a train straight to Cardiff Central and change for Ninian Park there, whereas if I got out at Queen Street station, which I used to prefer doing to change trains, I'd have to go via the Bay?

You would be better getting off at Radyr and catching the train around the City line instead of going via Queen St/Central

[Its been emotional]

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Trains from Radyr via City line to Ninian are 2 minutes past the hour or 32 minutes past the hour

[the other bob wilson]

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You would be better getting off at Radyr and catching the train around the City line instead of going via Queen St/Central

Thanks to you and Llanishen Blue for your replies. The timetables may have changed during the pandemic, but I remember it was a bugger before because the train to Ninian Park from Radyr was always leaving just as my train arrived, so it was always a half an hour wait for the next one. That’s why I’d stay on the Treherbert train until Queen Street where I’d have a short wait for a City Line train going in the opposite direction, hence my question about whether the detour to the Bay applies only to City Line trains.