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Number Carriages Routes Operated Withdrawn Built Notes mph km/h Diesel multiple units Sprinter: 150: DMU: 75 120 5 2 Valley Lines & Cardiff local routes; Heart of Wales/West Wales lines; Regional services between south and west Wales, north-west England and south-west England; 2022–2024 1987 Stored or scrapped Bombardier Turbostar: 170: 100 ...
The rail-based transport system in South Wales was heavily cut down following the Beeching report. By the 1970s, Wales kept less than half of the track it had in 1914. [ 3 ] There were closures of some lines and many sub-branches, mainly serving the ex-mining communities, and their easy links to ports and resorts on the coast.
The decimal system is widely used, but is rather uncommon for dates and ages. Larger numbers, however, tend to be expressed in this system e.g. 1,965 mil, naw cant chwe deg pump. In referring to years, on the other hand, the number of thousands is stated, followed by the individual digits, e.g. 1965 mil naw chwe(ch) pump.
The Beeching cuts had a significant impact on rail transport in Wales, closing a large number of railway stations. Since then some stations have reopened in Wales and following Welsh devolution, the Wales and Borders passenger rail franchise was established in 2001 and the operator was taken into public ownership by the Welsh Government in 2021.
Transport for Wales (TfW; Welsh: Trafnidiaeth Cymru; TrC) is a not-for-profit company owned by the Welsh Government and managed at arms length by its appointed board. [3] TfW oversees the Transport for Wales Group (TfW Group) consisting of itself and its subsidiaries: Transport for Wales Rail, the train operator of the Wales & Borders railway franchise; Pullman Rail Limited; and TfW Innovation ...
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Twenty (ugain) is used as a base number in Welsh from numbers up to 50 (deg a deugain) and from 60 to 100 (cant), although since the 1940s a decimal counting system has come to be preferred. However, the vigesimal system exclusively is used for ordinal numbers and is still required in telling the time, money, and with weights and measures.
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