With another
round of eagerly anticipated autumn rugby internationals set to run through
November (aside from a collective fingers crossed) across much of the former
county Gwent (and no doubt elsewhere) rugby fans and rail users will be
preparing themselves for the ordeal of trying to get into Cardiff on
overcrowded (or full) trains). I have no doubt that the franchise holder will
run short trains, which by the time they reach the stations (e.g. Abergavenny,
Pontypool, Cwmbran, Chepstow, Caldicot, Severn Tunnel Junction and Newport) in
the green and pleasant old county of Gwent, will be so full of people that passengers
cannot board. Every year in recent years it has been the same with the same old
lame excuses being rolled out by the franchise holders to why there was no
space, why the trains were short, etc. The real reason for the shoddy service
is about profits, extra trains and extra carriages have to be rented and this
hits profits and dividends. The day that
the rail franchise (in Wales and the marches) is run as a not for dividend
profit franchise cannot come soon enough.
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