New ticket machines?

Transport for Wales has signed a £1.9 million contract with multinational information equipment and service company, Fujitsu. This is to upgrade ticket office machines and mobile handsets across the their network. The machines are to be smart enabled so staff can add season tickets to customer smart cards, allowing rail passengers the option of using more robust and secure paperless tickets as well as making the overall process much easier for customers and staff. Train and station staff handsets will be also replaced with Fujitsu’s STARmobile technology, enabling staff to provide passengers with improved travel information on board trains, so that passengers […]

Sunday services

We understand that TfW have asked Network Rail for their agreement to improve Sunday services with additional trains. If NR agree, these could be in place in late 2019. CASPA has campaigned for this for many years. Update: we are delighted to see that TfW are to provide additional Sunday services from the December 2019 timetable.