Birmingham on Saturday

[SA73Swans]

First time poster, so please go easy. Live in Pembrokeshire and travelled to Birmingham on Saturday using public transport and Swans Travel. 17 hours from home to home for 90 mins football. Just reinforces LW's comments regards the effort that fans go to to attend football. Also goes to show how diabolical public transport is within Wales and in particular the west.

 

[Cooperman]

That's a good effort, fair play. The train service heading west of Swansea is very much hit and miss, and getting worse.

 

[PSumbler]

First time poster, so please go easy. Live in Pembrokeshire and travelled to Birmingham on Saturday using public transport and Swans Travel. 17 hours from home to home for 90 mins football. Just reinforces LW's comments regards the effort that fans go to to attend football. Also goes to show how diabolical public transport is within Wales and in particular the west.

Welcome. Trains and football are a great way to travel but the options of trains out of Wales to pretty much anywhere are difficult to do. My daighter went back to Manchester post-Xmas that was broadly five hours on a train that was (seemingly) built in the 1970s.

 

[Dillwyn the Dog]

Welcome. Trains and football are a great way to travel but the options of trains out of Wales to pretty much anywhere are difficult to do. My daighter went back to Manchester post-Xmas that was broadly five hours on a train that was (seemingly) built in the 1970s.

We have the worst railway in the U.K. No electrified line past Cardiff and the Valleys and horrible TFW trains that are antiquated with what’s on offer in Kent for example (140 mph sleek electric trains). And it won’t get any better under an “Independent “ Wales either. When the government wants less cars on the road it allows overly inflated fares (probably double what they should be) and services that become less frequent as the years go by.

I’d lovingly leave the car at home for when I go to work in England but even with TrainSplit the fare is seldom south of £80. That’s twice the cost of the fuel I use and even taking into account wear and tear it’s still way cheaper than using the car.