Re: Metro
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 6:03 am
Ash wrote:Frank wrote:What would light rail mean on the Rhymney line? I'm thinking something equivalent to a tram. They don't tend to be very quick do they? I thought trams only really worked in a city where the gap between stops is very small?
Another name for light rail is Train-Tram. They can run in both modes. The journey times should be about the same although there are likely to be more stops as these units have far shorter stopping distances.
They can only be run on on-street lines and dedicated rail corridors which have no heavy goods services. Presumably the Ebbw Vale and Maesteg services will remain as heavy rail due to the goods traffic on the South Wales Main Line.
The Rhymney line isn't very quick anyway, with quite few stops. It'll be interesting to see how they deal with the tunnel in between Caerphilly and Lisvane when preparing/changing the line in any way (assuming they have to at all).