I haven't used a train for 14 months, but whenever I plot a return I find the timetables have been reduced almost to unviable levels.
TOCs like TfW seem to be only thinking locally, and have reduced services to shuttles within their areas, rather than catering for longer journeys with connections between multiple TOCs.
There are minimal services across Chester, and the much trumpeted North/South Wales service has been truncated at Shrewsbury for over a year.
Avanti are not helping by reducing their Voyager service to minimal levels (while offering nearly normal Pendolino services on the main line).
It wouldn't be so bad if the truncated timetable had been constructed from scratch as an integrated set of services.
But mostly it is simply the 2019 timetable with deletions and truncations, which leads to short shuttles, broken connections and extended journey times.
Meanwhile, some TOCs (eg Merseyrail) have got back to something like normal, so, unlike TfW, you can rely on their network.
I'm personally surprised how little the TfW service is being changed this month, and with no prospect of early change.
If we get back to "normal" during the summer, TfW will not be offering an adequate service without significant improvements.
And Mr Drakeford (or Draekford as the BBC caption had it last night) is asking us to holiday in Wales this year, and avoid foreign travel (ie to England!).
On a related note, I see Transport Minister Ken Skates has left the Welsh Government (voluntarily), and is replaced by Health Minister Vaughan Gething.
I rate both of them, so it might be a decent change, except that Ken is a North Wales MS and Vaughan isn't.