We understand that delays can be extremely frustrating but please think before you tweet. We’re doing our best to help and reply as quickly as we can. Let’s make Twitter a nicer place to be 😊
^Liv & the TfW SM team
(Some of the not-so-nice tweets we've received below)
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🚆Wales' first hybrid train enters service on Borderlands Line
Railway history was made today on the Borderlands Line between Wrexham and Bidston as we introduce the first battery-hybrid trains used in regular passenger service in Wales.
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🚆 Driver training has begun on our new Class 197 trains which are due to begin entering service from next year on long-distance services, serving destinations as varied as Holyhead, Fishguard & Liverpool.
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Croeso i Trafnidiaeth Cymru, eich cwmni trenau newydd.
Dewch gyda ni wrth i’r daith ddechrau.
#DechrauTaith
Welcome to Transport for Wales.
Join us as the
#journeybegins
.
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Rail Delivery Group proposals – Transport for Wales statement.
The Welsh Government and Transport for Wales (TfW) are not in scope of the ticket office announcement made today by the Department for Transport train operators in England.
Find out more:
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Helo! Bydd gwasanaethau Trafnidiaeth Cymru yn lansio ar 14 Hydref, a byddwn yn dechrau trydar o’r cyfrif yma ar y dyddiad hwnnw.
Hi! Transport for Wales services launch on 14th October, and we will start tweeting from this account on that date.
Diolch 🏴
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📢Bow Street Station is Open!
🚆The first train stopped at the station at 9.12am on Sunday 14 February, providing a link to the national rail network for the community of Bow Street for the first time since the former station was closed in 1965
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📢🚆The website
@RealtimeTrains
now shows you how many carriages your TfW service will have and what facilities are available.
Click on “detailed view” when you visit
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🚆 We are pleased to report that the first bodyshell for class 197s has been assembled, welded and painted.
Our new trains will be assembled in CAF’s factory in Newport and will enter service from 2022.
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🎂Transport for Wales turns 5 this year
This year we're celebrating 5 years since we took over the responsibility of rail services as Transport for Wales
ℹ️From cleaning stations to introducing new trains. You can read our story here:
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🐾This furry runaway jumped on one of our trains at Cadoxton earlier this afternoon and is now with staff and
@BTPWales
at Cardiff Central.
We would love to reunite them with their owner. Please RT ♥️
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🚅A wnaethoch chi weld ein trên 175 sydd wedi’I hadnewyddu heddiw? Mae ganddo bwynt pweru (USB), WiFi am ddim a golwg newydd ffres!
👀 Did you spot our refurbished 175 out across the network today? It has USB charging points, free WiFi and a fresh new look!
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⚠️✈️ We’d like to offer our support to stranded Flybe passengers: you can travel on our trains free by showing your Flybe booking confirmation for one week from today.
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🔧 The iconic grade II listed Shrewsbury Junction Signal box has had some refurbishment work.
Windows have been replaced, painting works completed and a new sign!
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❤A cardiac arrest can happen to anyone, any age, anywhere.
These yellow boxes help save lives every day. Respect them. They might need to be used on someone you love.
@RubinColwill
@CardiffCityFC
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🚆Cerbyd 158820 wedi'i adnewyddu ar y ffordd i Bwllheli heddiw
🚆Refurbished 158820 on it's way to Pwllheli today
📸Mark - Archwiliwr Tocynnau / Conductor
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🚆A wnaethoch weld ein trên 158 sydd wedi’i hadnewyddu heddiw? Mae ganddo bwynt pweru (USB) a golwg newydd ffres!
🚆 Did you spot our refurbished 158 out across the network today? It has USB charging points and a fresh new look!
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🚆Find out more about your service before travelling on the
@RealtimeTrains
website.
The website shows you how many carriages your TfW service will have and what facilities are available.
ℹ️Click on “detailed view” when you visit .
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Dim gair o gelwydd ond roedd hi’n gyffrous cael Ruth Jones yn ymuno a ni i wneud cyhoeddiadau rhwng Merthyr Tudful a Pontypridd bore mha
I won’t lie to you, it was pretty exciting to have Ruth Jones join us to make announcements between Merthyr Tydfil and Pontypridd this morning
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🚆Services will continue to be impacted for the rest of 2022 due to the recent train collision with a mini digger near Craven Arms.
ℹ️ Find out more here:
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We have big plans to improve rail travel across Wales and the borders over the next 5 years and beyond, but change doesn’t happen overnight and for now, trains and timetables will stay the same.
#journeybegins
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👀Look what arrived at Taffs Well Depot last night.
🚊The first of our Class 398 trains.
This will now go into testing and be used for driver training.
This train will be in passenger service on the Treherbert, Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil and City lines in 2024.
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Hyd yn oed wrth deithio mewn niwl a glaw, mae'r daith ar draws Bont y Bermo yn un hudolus 😀
Even when travelling through mist and rain, there is something magical about crossing Barmouth Bridge 😀
Diolch
@1bigcircle
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All 247 stations will be modernised. That means more parking spaces, WiFi at all stations, better shelters and ticket machines and more options when you need to grab a coffee or snack on-the-go.
#journeybegins
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Lots of you were excited to see our Mk4 units enter service yesterday.
Another four trains of five carriages will enter service on the Swansea to Manchester route from December 2022.
📸 Gallery including a sneak peek of the charity livery
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📣 Extra trains arrive for TfW! 🚆
The first Class 170 Turbostar has arrived. The three-car train has 186 seats and will shortly be joined by a further seven three car-units and four two-car units that each provide seating for 110 passengers.
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@MULLET_FAN_NEO
Good news, we're investing three-quarters of a billion pounds in the South Wales Metro so that we can deliver faster, more frequent services and significantly more capacity with brand new trains. Full details here ^Liv
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🚉 We can't wait to see the 1st service stop at the new Bow Street Station on Sunday 😀
But, please remember that using Public Transport in Wales is for Essential reasons ONLY❗️
📸We will be sharing images from Bow Street on our social media platforms
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💙 We're so grateful to everyone at the NHS and key workers who are supporting all of us across the country at the moment.
Our fleet team have been applying rainbows on our trains as a sign of our appreciation 🌈
#ClapForOurCarers
#StayHomeSaveLives
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Mae ein tîm fflyd yn gweithio’n galed i drwsio’r difrod a gafodd ei achosi gan Storm Callum.
Our fleet team is working hard to repair damage caused by Storm Callum.
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Bore da. Liv sydd yma gyda chi heddiw. Byddwn ni wrth law i’ch helpu tan 8pm heno 👋
Good morning all, Liv signing in. We’ll be here to help until 8pm tonight 👋
Happy birthday to me, 33 today 😭🎂🎈
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The
#JourneyBegins
for the team at Cardiff Central, with John Doubler as conductor on-board the very first Transport for Wales service to leave the station this morning.
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A big welcome to all our new followers! We are so pleased you've joined us, as the
#JourneyBegins
- Croeso mawr i'n holl ddilynwyr newydd! Rydym mor falch eich bod chi wedi ymuno â ni, am
#DechrauTaith
newydd
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Yesterday at Gobowen station one of our Trainee Drivers was very kindly presented with a handmade train money box with £2.00 inside for a cuppa!
This kind gesture was on behalf of Toby and we'd love to track him down
📷 Geraint our Trainee Driver
Please retweet & share
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We have big plans to improve rail travel across Wales and the borders over the next 5 years and beyond, but change doesn’t happen overnight and for now, trains and timetables will stay the same.
#journeybegins
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🚉Plans for five new railway stations in south east Wales and more cross-border services
Members of the public are being invited to share their views as part of a 13-week consultation which runs from today
ℹ️Find out more here:
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🚄 The new Class 231 FLIRT trains arrived in Wales from Switzerland and are the first of 35 to be delivered over the next 24 months from Stadler.
ℹ️ For a virtual tour of these, visit:
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Transport for Wales has partnered with
@1bigcircle
to fit smart cameras on trains.
The cameras will automatically record, analyse and report vegetation risks on the Wales and Borders routes.
It will be the first time technology has been used in this way in the rail industry.
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Today marks the first ever locomotive-hauled railway journey. In 1804 Richard Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, in Merthyr Tydfil.
📸
@AmgueddfaCymru
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🚆Mae ein tim yn depo Treganna (Canton) yn brysur yn sicrhau bod y Class 170’s yn barod ar gyfer bore Dydd Llun.
🚆 The team at our Canton depot are busy getting the Class 170s ready for use on Monday morning.
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🚊You may notice two Northern-livered trains running a small number of our services
We've borrowed these to help with services across the network while we repair the two trains damaged in the collision at Craven Arms in May
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Mae gan Chris ein harchwiliwr tocynnau, neges pwysig iawn yn ystod yr cyfnod pryderus yma 🎤
Chris, the singing conductor has a very important message during these testing times🎤
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Work to refurbish our fleet of Class 158 trains is now complete 🎉
Passengers can benefit from Improved facilities, including USB charging points, re-covered seats, new carpets and new interior fittings.
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Throughout Covid-19, we've continued to work to improve our services across the network. This includes installing new Ticket machines at stations.
Wildmill and Sarn stations are 2 of the 26 stations that have seen ticket machines installed for the first time
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Treherbert Line Transformation
Some of the oldest railway infrastructure in Wales is set for a complete transformation as part of the South Wales Metro.
Buses replace trains between Pontypridd & Treherbert from the end of April 2023 until early 2024.
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⚠️
#StormCiara
⚠️ Monday 10th Feb
❌Due to flooding/debris on the line, all services on the Cambrian mainline and Cambrian coast will be cancelled on Monday 10th Feb.
❌All services on the
@LeinDconwyVLine
will be cancelled.
🚍 Rail replacement buses will in operation
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Ein Harchwiliwr Tocynnau James yn mwynhau'r olygfa o'i chab.
📷 Traphont Cnwclad.
Our conductor James, enjoying the view from his cab.
📷 Knucklas Viaduct.
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⚠️More trains than usual are currently undergoing repair at Transport for Wales depots. As a result, services are subject to change, please check your journey before travelling
📷 One of our trains that sustained damage during Storm Callum
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🚆 First up, our new Wales and Borders diesel trains, which are being assembled here in Wales, will be Class 197. These will enter service throughout the TfW network from 2022 🚆
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Our brand-new trains are currently being built but there has been significant progress with modernising the rest of our fleet. The first refurbished 153 unit is looking great!
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🚄Cyrhaeddodd y trenau FLIRT newydd dosbarth 231 yng Nghymru o’r Swistir a dyma’r cyntaf o 35 a fydd yn cael eu danfon dros y 24 mis nesaf gan Stadler.
ℹ️ I gymryd taith rithiol ewch i:
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On Sunday night 3rd May at 20:00 we will be encouraging and supporting Ruth Jones as she embarks on learning Welsh. Ruth will feature on our trains in the new
@S4C
programme Iaith ar Daith. 🏴
📺 Tune in!
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🚊At the beginning of April the first electric train travelled from Cardiff to Pontypridd during daylight hours.
Have a look at the Class 756 train below
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Safety warning as first Overhead Line Equipment for Metro goes live!
Trespassing on railway lines in South Wales is more dangerous now than it has ever been.
@BTPWales
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🚉 Check out this photo of Cardiff Central station taken by Adam our Head of Operational Planning.
Did you know the station used to be called Cardiff General? It was renamed Cardiff Central in 1973
#WednesdayWisdom
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🔊Service update
Following the storms in November, several trains have suffered wheel damage.
We have a comprehensive programme in place for repairing the damaged wheels on the trains affected, which will take most of December to complete.
🚆Please check before you travel
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It is with deep regret that we learned of the passing of Her Majesty the Queen. On behalf of everyone at Transport for Wales, we wish to send our condolences to the Royal Family.
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Liv signing in from home to help this afternoon. Physical isolation doesn’t have to mean social isolation so here to chat about trains or anything else 🙂👍
#BritainGetTalking
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📷🚆153333
Spotted today - the first of our Class 153 units painted in the TfW livery, which has just entered service. Keep an eye out for it if you’re travelling on the network!
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We love these 1930’s tile signs at Cardiff Central. Cardiff Central is a Grade II listed building. It is the largest and busiest station in Wales.
#WorldArchitectureDay
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🚉 Yesterday saw the first service depart from the newly refurbished Platform 4 at Swansea service. Here is the 1032 Swansea - Manchester Piccadilly (Sunday 16 May)
Diolch
@NetworkRailWAL
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Fe wnaeth Chloe o swyddfa docynnau Caerdydd pobi'r cwcis yma. Ydyn nhw'n edrych yn flasus?
The talented Chloe from Cardiff booking office made these cookies. Don't they look tasty?
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Bore Da. Rydym yn falch o fod yn cefnogi Pabïau i Paddington heddiw, er mwyn cofio am ein harwyr sydd wedi cwympo.
Morning. We are proud to be supporting Poppies to Paddington today, to ensure that our fallen heroes are remembered.
#RemembranceDay2021
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🚆Edrychwch beth fydd i'w weld ar y rhwydwaith yn fuan 👀
Ein DVT 82216 yn ei darluniad Tŷ Gobaith newydd 😀
🚆Look at what is about to be seen on the network 👀
Our new
@HopeHouseKids
livery on DVT 82216 😀
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🚊This week saw the introduction of the Mark 4's on the Holyhead - Cardiff service as we continue with our plans to transform transport across our network.
📸 Gary Thomas
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Pwy wnaeth gweld Ruth Jones ar Iaith Ar Daith?
Roedd yn grêt gallu i'w helpu i ymarfer ar un o’n gwasanaethau.
Who saw Ruth Jones on Iaith ar Daith?
It was great being able to help her as she learns Welsh
Gwyliwch eto/ Watch again;
🎥
@S4C
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🚆Here's a time-lapse video of our Class 150 trains being re-branded with TfW's grey and red livery on the outside as part of our 40 million refurbishment programme.
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Our CEO Kevin Thomas, customer and commercial director, Colin Lea and TfW colleagues Alexia Course, Geoff Ogden and Heather Clash are welcoming customers at Cardiff Central this morning as the
#journeybegins
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Tomorrow at 09:43 a one minute’s silence will be held to remember those lives lost in the accident near Stonehaven in Scotland.
Am 09:43 yfory bydd munud o dawelwch yn cael ei chynnal i gofio am y rhai a chollodd ei bywydau yn y damwain ger Stonehaven yn yr Alban.
#RailwayFamily
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We’re excited to share some photos of Bow Street
🚉 The new station will have:
- Ticket vending machines
- A car park, a bus interchange and cycle storage
- Real-time passenger information
& more 👉
Opening soon❗️
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Thanks for all your lovely comments on our first day! See you tomorrow as the
#JourneyBegins
- Diolch am eich holl sylwadau hyfryd ar ein diwrnod cyntaf! Gweler chi yfory i
#DechrauTaith
newydd.
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From Monday 4 March, we'll be introducing a Penalty Fare for TfW journeys on routes between Severn Tunnel Junction and Carmarthen.
The penalty will be given to anyone travelling without a valid ticket or permit for their journey.
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Today we remember the 116 children and 28 adults who lost their lives during the Aberfan disaster and pay tribute to all the emergency services that endangered their lives to help the victims and the community. They will never be forgotten 🕯
#RememberAberfan
At 9:15am today, Wales will fall silent to remember those who were taken from us in the Aberfan disaster.
55 years may have passed, but we will never forget them.
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🚉 Huge thank you to Hywel, one of our
@HeartofWales1
station volunteers. He's stepping down after 16 years years of dedication at Llanwrda railway station.
🏖Tenby
Discover Tenby's glorious beaches, a warm atmosphere and fine Victorian houses. Enjoy a spot of fishing, relax on Caldey Island, visit the 15th century church, or take a walk along the beautiful Pembrokeshire coastal path
🎥
@visitwales