This is the South Wales Metro:

My oh my, driver and signalman exchange the token in 2025 on a "real" railway, not a preserved line! I'd no idea that still happens.

wanna hear a new song?

I'm confused. the train is 21st century but the signalling 19th. London gets another eleventy billion investment

This is Tondu midway between Bridgend and Maesteg. Only one train/hour, but promised two trains per hour when the line reopened 20 years ago, plenty of rhetoric from the MP & AM,but no action,this service is known to be unreliable, and many journeys end here &never reach Maesteg

This is true railroading the way god intended. Just people living in the moment.

What is going on here? What did they just exchange? And why?

What’s the difference between this metro & a train ?

@Welshieepic

What’s this you want modern trains and modern signalling in the Valleys, like a traditional high frequency metro system? Nope it’s not a metro it’s a polished turd rolled in glitter and dressed up as improvements!

Why not fit

It should be clearly understood that this practise and the punitive linespeed is all on borrowed time and improvements are not far away