Sun Jun 16, 2019 10:31 pm
I have no doubt that Cardiff East station will be very successful; it has a big catchment area, and congestion on Newport Road makes bus journeys into the city quite slow. Two trains per hour is a good start, but to reach its full potential we should aim for 4 - this would give it a "turn up and go" service.
This could be:
1 tph to Ebbw
1 tph to Cheltenham
1 tph to Bristol (GWR)
And 1 tph from either the proposed Grand Union service to London, or something from the Marches line.