{"id":15257,"date":"2016-11-22T19:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=15257"},"modified":"2016-11-22T19:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:00:24","slug":"rail-disruption-vale-glamorgan-line-continue-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2016\/11\/22\/rail-disruption-vale-glamorgan-line-continue-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail disruption on Vale line to continue until January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PASSENGERS who are unhappy with rail services on the Vale of Glamorgan line can expect more travel disruption through the festive season.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Passengers have been advised to plan their journeys in advance due to major engineering works which are part of Network Rail&#8217;s Cardiff Area Signalling Renewal Project (CASR) to upgrade lines for electrification. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the biggest renewal project for over 100 years, Network Rail is installing signalling technology with\u00a0work expected to last until 2018. The railway lines in South Wales will then be electrified and\u00a0the project\u00a0will be completed by 2019. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Network Rail spokesperson said: \u201cWe have been carrying out essential upgrade works as part of the final phase of the \u00a3300m Cardiff area signalling renewal scheme \u2013 the biggest remodelling and resignalling project in Wales ever \u2013 which will be fully commissioned over this Christmas and New Year.\u201d <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Network Rail say that the scheme will be \u201ccongestion-busting\u201d because the signalling technology they are installing allows more trains to run along the track and so increases passenger capacity at peak times. The work has been undertaken at the weekend to try and minimise disruption.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Network Rail say the scheme will prepare the railway for the arrival of a new fleet of bigger, faster and greener electric trains.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, Arriva, which currently runs the Wales and Borders Franchise which covers the Vale of Glamorgan line and other services between Cardiff and the Valleys, only has a finite number of trains. Their current rolling stock is 127 trains that are available for the track. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Engineering work started yesterday\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">between Barry and Bridgend. The 21:38 Merthyr Tydfil to Bridgend service will be replaced by a bus between Barry and Bridgend until Friday. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The festive disruption will run from December 24 until January 2 affecting services between Cardiff, Bridgend, Newport, Ebbw Vale Town and Cardiff Valley Lines. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There will be no train services at Barry from 22:00 on Christmas Eve until December 27. There will be a replacement bus service until January 2, and then on January 2 Barry train services will start and terminate at Cardiff central.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Claire Lillie, PR Manager for Arriva Trains said: \u201cIt is important for passengers to check the Arriva website before travelling. Barry will be affected on certain days.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some residents from Barry are dissatisfied with the current train services. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marcus Stevens, 40, owner of Dimes on Pagent Road, Barry, said: \u201cBus replacements are useless. For people coming down here it\u2019s not good enough. It puts people off from coming.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\nCherrelle Hobbs, 19, from Amherst Crescent in Barry said: \u201cThe trains are unreliable and it\u2019s been going on for years. They think they are making it better but they\u2019re just making it worse.\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some passengers aren\u2019t clear where the replacement bus services run from. Amy Harrison, 19, from Bath was using the Pontypridd line to get to Cardiff station on Sunday, but was unaware of the engineering works. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She said: \u201cThey should provide better replacement bus services. I don\u2019t even know where they\u2019re running from and I have to keep to a schedule.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other travellers don\u2019t believe that the engineering works will be enough to improve services. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jannat Ahmed, 21, from Barry town centre is an MA student and frequent traveller on the line. She said: \u201cThe current service on Arriva Trains is woefully inadequate. Even without engineering works often in rush hour there are only two carriages and they are often very full.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASSENGERS who are unhappy with rail services on the Vale of Glamorgan line can expect more travel disruption through the festive season. Passengers have been advised to plan their journeys in advance due to major engineering works which are part of Network Rail&#8217;s Cardiff Area Signalling Renewal Project (CASR) to upgrade lines for electrification. In the biggest renewal project for over 100 years, Network Rail is installing signalling technology with\u00a0work expected to last until 2018. 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