Transport For Wales Cardiff To Pontypridd & Valleys

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  1. Reeon1999

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    The Route
    Transport for Wales, the new operator who took over from Arriva Trains Wales have on average six trains per hour running in either direction between Pontypridd and Cardiff Central making it a somewhat busy section of railway. Starting in Cardiff Central you would drive through the city to Radyr before going out into the open countryside on a trip up to Pontypridd. You could then choose to travel up the Rhondda valley to Treherbert, up the Cynon valley to Aberdare or up to Merthyr Tydfil. Possibly the initial DLC would only take you from Cardiff to Pontypridd with some further expansions in the future. However it all depends on how generous Dovetail Games feel at the time and how much work it would take to develop this route.
    Along the way you would see sights such as the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Queen Street from (you guessed it) Queen Street Station, Cardiff University buildings in Cathays, Castell Coch between Radyr & Taffs Well, University of South Wales at Trefforest, and then each valley will have it's own sights to see.
    Further up the valleys you start to get single line tracks with some token block sections such as that between Porth - Ystrad Rhonda (passing loop) - Treherbert. I feel this token block system gives the perfect opportunity to take advantage of the walking aspect of Train Sim World as you could get out of your train and be told to walk to the token machines and take one before you're allowed to proceed.

    The Stock
    It would give the opportunity to introduce and drive the class 150/2, Class 143 and Class 142 trains into Train Sim World
     
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