😮 Really great editing! I must ask how you do it! 😅

nice

Small correction, at around 1:05 you say that the class 756 hasn't entered service yet. It entered service on the Merthyr-Aberdare loop on the 16th November! Really good video :)

Well edited video😊

There was one form of transport you forgot to mention buses ,Transport for Wales love using them as a replacement for trains

Great video, I can't wait for the South Wales metro to open fully. The TfW PAYG area is also being extended, which will help the area feel more metro-y. You should cover the Swansea Bay & WW Metro, which is similar. Getting to/from Bay Campus takes ages because the buses get stuck in the awful traffic, but the Swan Metro would have a dedicated rail stop. It would also make travelling to nearby areas much easier to further reduce traffic through Swanesa. You could also touch on what Swansea lost, such as the unusually large tram network or the Mwmbwls Railway, the oldest passenger railway in the world (you can still see the stairs from the bridge between the park & beachfront). You might also look at the last attempt in Swansea, which was the ftrMetro bendy buses which existed for just 6 years (but did lead to a much-needed redevelopment of the city centre). I hope both serve as a good model for other cities/areas. Mad that Leeds is one of the most populous cities in Europe with no trams or metro, and the largest UK city with only one station. One thing Wales also has going for it is the large amount of heritage narrow-guage railways. The Rheidol Valley Railway went straight from BR to heritage ownership, so the line is in near-pristine condition.

Great quality production! With the guard panel, every panel has 2 door open buttons, so the guard doesn't mistakenly open them when intending to press another button. The doors will not be released unless both buttons are pressed together. Hope to see you in South Wales again soon!

Because white people don’t know how to build trains. If Britain wants to survive, it will need to import engineers from India, China, and Africa.

The metro is the jewel in the crown of Manchester's public transport system. Before its introduction, the options were pretty dire. Any further expansion would be a boon for the region. I hope you enjoyed your visit. How does it compare to Bristol's offerings?

Great videos well done

I caught this once from Heathrow to Paddington, really expensive and, in my opinion, misnamed...express it wasn't..kept stopping at regular intervals.!

Heathrow Express could of had the Class 379 Electrostars instead of the Class 387.

Why, as an English person, are you pronouncing route is 'row-t' and not 'root'? Best of luck with your videos, thanks.

Well done youngen excellent trip report. I had no choice but to use it years ago. My flight was delayed and I needed to be in the Westminster area of London but didn't want to spend taxi money getting there. I was in shock at the price. I remember the guard saying it's cheaper if you book in advance which wouldn't have worked for me. I took a train ride in Thailand.... standard class for the 2:20 round trip...worked out 13 pence.

TfW complete joke. I live on these lines come and live here and see how incompetent they are along with welsh assembly. You are looking through rose tinted spectacles

So worth every pound. To get from/to Heathrow/Paddington in 15 minutes... Yes please.

Great effort thank you. Just a note "route" is pronounced like "root" in British English.

the mk4s and 67 the " gerald " is an awsome train .. upgrade to 1st class and you get wonderful food etc on the cardiff - manchetsre services... however anything from 153's to 197s are on this route.. so rather then first clas serives you get cattle wagons..

I think I once heard that the Manchester Underground was at least partially built, and there's bits of infrastructure which apparently are part of it. Not sure how true that is, or if I just dreamed it. All I do know is that the current options are the hugely congested tram links through Piccadilly Gardens or the horribly underused (and hugely expensive) Ordsall Chord for the overground trains. For what it's worth, the Metrolink is fine. Yes, there are bits that are not so great, like where the trams steal a track from the Manchester to Chester line at Navigation Road, causing bottlenecks for both (not a problem with the trains, but the 12 minute tram service is a pain) and almost all of the run on the Ashton line which gets snarled up with the general traffic on Ashton New Road. And they really do need to get a move on with the tram-train option, which Sheffield has been running out to Rotherham for a while now. Getting the Glossop line moved to trams would be a big win at least, although the mess with the tracks over the Dinting Viaduct would need sorting out. I still don't know why it goes down to a single track going into the wonderfully triangular Dinting station, and they'll probably need to re-lay the second tracks from Dinting to Glossop and Hadfield - again, not a massive problem for hourly trains, but a regular tram service would see this lock up pretty badly. Oh, and the barely used line from Stalybridge to Stockport would be a massive win, bringing both into the network along with Denton and Reddish (although it would need something running to Stalybridge, so best get a move on with the extension of the Ashton line!) Oh, and a circular route that links the outlying suburbs, so you don't have to go into town if you're going between them

Just as a quick extra note. Not all the 197's have been delivered by CAF let alone having entered service.

I always find it hilarious how overkill this is. Meanwhile there's trains from Manchester to Cardiff that are only 2 coaches lmao

Now, if only Bristol could have at least a tram!!!

Manchester is to far North of London to get any of the good stuff.

1:30 wow that is genuinely so awesome I'm so jealous! How did he let you inside? Did you ask or did he just see you and ask you. My social anxiety could never ask

This is such an amazing video! The editing is absolutely amazing! And it is so well explained! As a person who lives in Cardiff and used tfw every day, this even taught me some stuff. Amazing job

Why not build elevated rail?

Manchester should have an underground. However the government does NOT authorise the funding. England is London centric. 100 times per head of population is spent on London than Manchester. Cross rail, HS2, Eurostar and additional underground stations. . . etc. Stockport is not connected by the metro link.

I'm mostly on Avanti trains in Wales, running from Holyhead to London, but I've also been on TfW and Great Western in South Wales and on runs from Holyhead to Birmingham or Manchester.

Great video. Very well put together and nicely presented!

Cymru am Byth!! Great video and very informative, best way I’ve heard classes of trains explained. Thank you!

You got to get further out of the city on the previous railway lines for the trams to get to top speed.

1:50 Mid* Wales

The ten minute shaving is two do with the locomotive hauled trains on the Manchster to Cardiff services by permitting them to travel at them at the same speed as the 197s. Also the 197s are diagramed to be 4 or 5 coach units on the Manchester to Cardiff services but if there is a failure of a 197 or 67 they will prefer to do a set swap for the failed 67 with a 197 and with a failed 197 pair they will just run it solo as it means you are not cancelling a train.

Amazing class 756 TFW keep up the fantastic work I've subscribe to u

About time tfw got rid of the shitty rust bucket 150s they are so old and so rusty no way can people rely on this crap trains tfw are pathetic relying on them soooi much

I enjoyed the video I also travelled from Abergavenny to Manchester on a two car train it was too full TFW really need to address this issue.

Class 756 have been in service since November 2024

It's a while since I was last in Manchester, but assuming nothing has changed, there is one very simple thing I think they got wrong (on this and other tram systems in Britain). It's the horn. It sounds like a normal vehicle horn (albeit loud - a lorry maybe). And that is going to be ignored by a lot of people in cars, as they will just think of it as coming from another road vehicle. If they'd used the traditional tram bell, everyone would instantly know a tram was coming, and get out of the way. I was a bit shocked when I first heard a tram horn, having lived in a city with trams which have bells in the past. And you very soon get used to clearing out of the way when you hear that distinctive bell.

Overall this is a really good video, and explained TfW pretty well (from a Australians perspective anyway). One thing that would be good is a bit more continuity between the sections of the video as they seem very disjointed. Overall though, a really good video, with some great footage!