Into The Marches | Episode 83 | The Welsh Marches Line

Welcome to the latest episode of Every Platform! In today's episode I am on the Welsh Marches Line visiting stations between Newport and Church Stretton. Services are seen by Transport for Wales. Stations visited in this video include Abergavenny, Ludlow, Leominster and Cwmbran as well as a few others!
The day out was really good albeit a lot shorter than most due to strike action. We had to get Megabus over to Newport from Bristol in order to change and start the day off. We had a few delays to trains which provided some challenges but overall it wasn't too bad, we still managed everything we wanted to do and saw some good variety.
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[@michelsaarloos4392]

Greetings from the Netherlands. Great film, also cause I love Wales. Been to Abergavenny 😊

[@KTVTransport]

Thank you!

[@philipsalmon2192]

Thanks for this new offering

[@KTVTransport]

No problem! Thank you!

[@conceyullena]

Like 16 beautiful video! Greetings 🚂🔝👍🙋‍♂️

[@KTVTransport]

Thank you!

[@tsl56]

Back in the late 60s, Pontypool Road was still quite a busy station, with plenty of buildings on the island platform and a lot of staff. Although it had lost three branchlines, a lot of valleys people found it a better place to get off and get on than say Cardiff or Newport. In effect, it was a shortcut, so that you could cut across the mid valleys, instead of always having to go to Cardiff to use the Marches line. But I suppose that is also the idea behind the current car parking and overpass improvements. I also seem to remember that there was at least one other platform with real buildings in those days. But it has always suffered from being a 'road' station, far from the downtown. Ponty used to be quite a happening place; even after the closure of nearby pits and steel plants. Here's hoping it will regain some of its previous glory.

[@tsl56]

I keep hearing that a new station at Pontrilas is a possibility. Not because Pontrilas is much of an urban centre, but because it has road connections with unserved places like Hay and Monmouth. But Herefordshire really does need more stations anyway.

[@ReubenAshwell]

Oh dear, Cwmbran, I have a cousin who lives there lol.

[@KTVTransport]

Not a great place 😂

[@brianmorrison9168]

Can you pre-book seats on Transport for Wales trains ? We are thinking about making a trip to Cardiff.
My wife and I have used LNER quite often in the past year and their booking system is excellant .. you simply select available seats and the numbers are added to the ticket .. easy-peasy.
We were recently on a TPE train and it was just a mad scamble to get seats, all seat rteservation lights were showing as green .. as folk with seniot railcards .. running about is getting more difficult for both of us

[@KTVTransport]

Only specific services can have booked seats, most don't have them.