Transport for Wales has released details of cancelled and altered trains this Saturday, 17th November 2018.
The cancellations are due to more trains underdoing repairs art depots and means that the fleet cant provide the normal level of trains.
Certain routes will see no trains and will be replaced by buses, with ticket acceptance on some other operators.
Transport for Wales has apologised for the inconvenience this may cause to its passengers.
Routes affected
Aberystwyth – Machynlleth – Shrewsbury
- Services that start or terminate at Shrewsbury will not operate between 0600 – 20:30.
- Services that start or terminate at Birmingham New Street / Birmingham International will run as planned.
- Replacement buses will run instead of cancelled trains. The timetable can be found here
Llandudno – Chester – Manchester Airport
- TfW services will terminate/start from Manchester Oxford Road.
- Passengers tickets will be accepted on Northern, Transpennine Express and East Midlands Trains services
Blaenau Ffestiniog – Llandudno Junction – Llandudno
- All trains will be replaced by a bus on this route.
- The replacement bus timetable can be found here
Swansea / Carmarthen – Pembroke Dock / Fishguard Harbour
The following services will be amended:
- 09:07 Whitland – Fishguard Harbour will be cancelled
- 09:53 Fishguard Harbour – Carmarthen will be cancelled
- 10:58 Carmarthen – Pembroke Dock will be cancelled
- 13:09 Pembroke Dock – Swansea will be cancelled
- 16:08 Swansea – Pembroke Dock will be cancelled
- 19:09 Pembroke Dock – Cardiff Central starts Carmarthen
- Replacement buses will run instead of cancelled services, the timetable can be viewed here
The following additional alterations will also be implemented
- 04:35 Cardiff – Manchester Piccadilly service will start at Crewe.
- Customers should travel on either the 05:09 Cardiff – Bangor or 05:35 Cardiff – Manchester Piccadilly service
- 06:10 Shrewsbury – Manchester Piccadilly (via Chester) will depart earlier at 06:07 and terminate at Chester.
- Customers should travel on the 07:38 Chester – Manchester Piccadilly service
Please plan ahead if you are travelling this weekend!
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Telling passengers to Manchester Airport to use Northern trains is a bit daft, seeing as miss of their timetable is in tatters due to the RMT strikes.
Better by car or coach nowadays.
Not a good start for the new franchise who took over from Arriva Trains Wales. Reminds me of when SWR first had problems when First Group took over from Stagecoach South West Trains last year.
So much for Arriva not providing a god service new franchise failing already
Repairs or changing the branding?
Could be either, our source of information says repairs 🙂
Regards,
Michael