Metro

Goodness me, the rear entrance looks better than the front? Absolutely adore the victorian style archways. Nice to see the part of the station underneath Platform 0 being used as active frontages too. Should bring the station to life.

Wales deserves a top class train station in the capital. Can’t help but to feel that the current station feels a little bit sad at the moment. Even the grade listed part at the front is looking very grubby. Needs a good blast and clean.

Been gone a while, hence why I’ve only just seen this.

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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-lau ... tdtcreator

A lot of funding announced for the Metro and Wales/TfW in general. Good to see plenty of funding in there for new stations in S Wales, and for Cardiff crossrail potentially. Not sure how reliable this is coming just before an election though, and shame they are waiting until now to announce this. Better late than never though

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80jyx2xljno

A lot of funding announced for the Metro and Wales/TfW in general. Good to see plenty of funding in there for new stations in S Wales, and for Cardiff crossrail potentially. Not sure how reliable this is coming just before an election though, and shame they are waiting until now to announce this. Better late than never though

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80jyx2xljno

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no extra funding anounced there right? It's the funding for the 7 stations that was announced last year and then just the vaguest of vague "commitment" to TfW's other future plans. The £14bn figure in the headline is meaningless as that's just TfW's estimate of what all their plans would cost, none of that money is being allocated.

The only previous announcement was £445m for various projects (not including the Metro works). Despite a lack of detail at the moment, committing £14bn is quite a jump to say the least.

The only financial committment is for the £445 million already announced. The £14 billion is only an estimate of TfWs wish list but with no financial committment.

Typical politician bullshit. More jam tommorrow - no more jam today.

Must be an election coming up....

The only previous announcement was £445m for various projects (not including the Metro works). Despite a lack of detail at the moment, committing £14bn is quite a jump to say the least.

They're not committing £14bn though, the only money they've committed is that £445m. No new money was commited this week, no timeline for future money to e committed, nothing more than a "yeah, that £14bn list of stuff TfW wants to do looks good doesn't it? We're totally going to do it one day, don't know when though. A timeline for it? Nah we're not going to give anything like that level of committment. Can you mention the £14bn figure in your news headlines though, there's an election coming"

https://www.wales247.co.uk/plans-move-f ... ardiff-bay

Have their been any details at all on how the tram will travel southbound after going across Callaghan Square?

I assume it'll be running alongside the existing Queen Street to Cardiff Bay line on another new track, but haven't seen any details on a ramp for it to get across Bute Street and up to the level of the existing tracks, or how it'll integrate into the upgraded Cardiff Bay station and new Bute Street Station (if the latter ever opens!).

Presumably as soon as the upgraded stations and duelling of the existing line is finally finished, it'll become a giant construction site once again for the additional platform.

Have their been any details at all on how the tram will travel southbound after going across Callaghan Square?

I assume it'll be running alongside the existing Queen Street to Cardiff Bay line on another new track, but haven't seen any details on a ramp for it to get across Bute Street and up to the level of the existing tracks, or how it'll integrate into the upgraded Cardiff Bay station and new Bute Street Station (if the latter ever opens!).

Presumably as soon as the upgraded stations and duelling of the existing line is finally finished, it'll become a giant construction site once again for the additional platform.

The tram tracks will climb a ramp near the top of Bute Street to join the 2 tracks of the Bay line. The extra track and Butetown station are due to be completed next April, rather later than originally scheduled. Adding the 2nd track involves lots of track work at Queen Street and the station will be closed for 3 weeks to facilitate this.

The 3rd platform at Cardiff Bay will be added in the project, presumably there will still be access to the station from both sides during the construction, but I haven't seen a plan for this.