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September 26, 2006
From Ystrad Mynach
I've been working in the Welsh Valleys for the last couple of days, and one of the delegates on my course was telling me how he used to commute by train - from Cardiff where he lives close to the station - up the valley to Ystrad Mynach to work. It's cheaper in the long run that the car, and if the train turns up it's more relaxing too. Problem is, though, that the train he catches keeps getting "pulled" to fillin for other more popular services.
I had a few minutes to look around in South Wales early this evening, and it's lovely. I've posted a picture or two on my other site. But this pair struck me. Standing more of less in one spot, but turning 180 degrees. On one side, the magnificend old railway viaduct, expensively turned into a path with a single walker. And on the other side, the road traffic that, were there still a train service across, would at least be shared.
What a crazy situation. The current operator / regime is not looking after its customers (pehaps it has so many that it doesn't mind loosing some?), there's unused trackbed expensively turned into walkways and roads clogged with cars and buses. And I keep hearing the cry I would use the train if I practically could
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Posted by gje at September 26, 2006 08:41 PM