Cardiff Central Railway Station Announcements 

RWL2012 Cardiff is a lovely city 🙂

For some reason, the first Cardiff-Pompey train had Avoncliff entered into the system as a request stop, it came up as so on online systems too but definitely a mistake, that’s been corrected now. Ruth and Eryl also used to just say ‘Euston’ too, maybe they have some of the London Underground Network recorded. There is a bit of a Mar-lebone and Marra-lebone split between announcers, Rodger says London Mar-lebone. Coleshill Parkway hadn’t been entered into the ATW database, it was just listed as something like ‘CLSHLLPWY’ on the dot matrix boards at the station. Guess it’s been missed as there only 1 train a week from Cardiff stopping there.

@@Parallel395 Ah that's a shame, btw, where's the best place to record the announcements here at Cardiff Central?

TrainspotterPhil HD The Platform 3/4 waiting rooms are good, or West end of Platform 1 on a Sunday when Platform 0 isn’t used as much. Platform 8 waiting area is quite good for Valley services.

@@Parallel395 Ughh, the waiting rooms and their horrible sounding Penton RCS 6 ceiling speakers

So, why are there services to Leictwester in Cardiff Central and why is Coleshill Parkway not right.

Derby

CrossCountry service

Likely engineering works closing the last bit.

I think it gets two CrossCountry trains a day, one to Manchester via Bristol in the morning and a return journey in the evening, but there were engineering works when this one was recorded and it went to Edinburgh instead.

It was due to engineering works

@@Parallel395 how did it get to Marylebone?

@@ymodnarafter Swindon, turn left at Didcot then through Oxford, Bicester Village, then onto to Chiltern Main Line

Yup! :)

I think it only ran in bank holidays pre-Covid

@@Parallel395 when will the longer distance XC services from Cardiff return again???

Most likely

Last year there was a GWR service from Cardiff to Worcester via Bristol as I used it to go to Cheltenham Spa but I've never seen a service to Edinburgh before, only as far as Nottingham

They ran when there were engineering works in the Filton area