By Rhodri Clark
News

New stock for South Wales: testing has begun on some of the new trains TfW has ordered for the South Wales Metro. Stadler has completed the first of 11x4-car Class 231 Flirt DEMUs (pictured), ordered for the Ebbw Vale, Cheltenham and Maesteg routes.
Construction of Core Valley Lines (CVL) overhead electrification equipment commenced on 26 July, when the first piles for masts were installed on the Aberdare branch.