Do you use this line often? Your location is shown as Croydon, yet you have persistently made a bit of a song and a dance about the lack of toilets on this fairly short South Wales commuter route.
Genuine question.Bus journeys from the east of Cardiff from St Mellons to the city centre are at least 1 hour. Should all Cardiff buses have toilets on board as well?
I do use the lines. I visit Cardiff often enough (family there). My main use is to Pontypridd but also beyond.Do you use this line often? Your location is shown as Croydon, yet you have persistently made a bit of a song and a dance about the lack of toilets on this fairly short South Wales commuter route.
hundreds upon hundreds of people heading back up the Valleys with ten pints inside them and no toilets - what could possibly go wrong? 
Those units will become mobile bus shelters swimming in urine, vomit etc 
Given all metro systems around the UK (London Underground, Manchester Metro and even some mainline London services) don't have toilets on board I would think a legal challenge would have been made a long time ago if people were actively being discriminated against.
I'm sure they'll cope as well as the trains provided for Twickenham (455s, no toilets), the Aviva Stadium (DART, no toilets), Murrayfield (Edinburgh Trams, no toilets), Stade de France (Paris Metro and RER - no toilets at all on the former and on most services on the latter) and the Stadio Olimpico (no trains at all) do.I think the real fun will begin on the 398’s on Rugby International days
The first time someone does that, they are going to made a huge example of by TFW and BTP. Behaviour like that is illegal under the Public Order Act and the Sexual Offences Act and there's CCTV all over the train so would be very easy to prove. A few court cases later and no-one else will be willing to take the risk.I think the real fun will begin on the 398’s on Rugby International days
I think the real fun will begin on the 398’s on Rugby International days
Yes, the Valleys lot after a night out are absolutely horrendous to share a train with, I can say from experience living in Cardiff for three years.
All delivered with the exception of 017, 022, 024 & 025 which are at Old Dalby. 027 is the highest numbered one although 026 doesn't seem to have arrived as yet
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Ooooo interesting! Nothing out today but worth keeping an eye onRealtime Trains | Departures from Taffs Well Depot all day on 01/04/2025
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Plenty of test runs scheduled during the daytime this week if anyone wants to get out and about, supposing they run of course!
Footbridge on station, road bridge at Cardiff end of station, and a public footpath goes all the way around, but it’s a case of looking through gaps in bushes etc to see what you can get.
No. The only technical issue that has been mentioned on here previously was wheel profiles, but that wasn't from an official source.
Why would it derail the whole project?
I don't know which is why I was asking, I was wondering if there could be something major in the design or if it's just minor adjustments.
I did find in the TfW board minutes from December that "Further work is required to secure the necessary access to support the Class 398 testing and commissioning process, with the issue escalated to Amey Infrastructure Wales senior leadership". Unfortunately none of the 2025 minutes have been posted online yet so we don't know if there was any update to that this year.
Thank you Bob. As someone who's local station used to be Treforest, I will soon be doing my own filming. Wanted to wait until the 398s started daytime testing so I can get all 3 trains in 1 day, before the 150s finish
