Arriva Trains Wales Review | Stus Reviews

Come to watch this a little late, honestly so true, under TfW it is well, a little better. No longer Pacers as seen in this video but it's still mostly 2 coaches, only a matter of time now until this will become more rare fully as newer 3-4 coaches are introduced.

I was on a 2 carriage TFW 150 recently after WMR has their trains cancelled and I managed to get a seat but it was not great. I went from Hereford to Shrewsbury

I suspect you will be really happy with the new trains and timetables over the next few years!

South West Trains had rolling stock even older than Arriva Trains Wales.

Their toilets were also infamously rank! Under the new franchise, they have improved by leaps and bounds over the past two years with the suction flush toilets and walk-in cubicles... About bloody time as it seems like other parts of the U.K have had those toilets for years, but they seem so "hi-tech" and alien to us. Went into one coming home on a train from Barnsley in 2016 and I felt like I was walking into The Tardis! They even had carpeted trains! I shouldn't really be impressed by such things, but sadly I was.

My opinion on ATW old rolling stock
67+Mk3 - Great
Class 142/143 unacceptable
Class 150 only acceptable on short routes
Class 153 Unacceptable
Class 158 fine, good quality
Class 175 fine, good quality

Travelling from Cornwall to Portsmouth on a Sunday afternoon/evening, now there’s an adventure.

2021 update arriva trains wales is gone

We don't have arriva trains but buses are the same shit

Most trains on the Crewe to Shrewsbury line is crowed pre covid times and they are one car most of the time.

It's now transport for Wales

When I was younger was about 9pm with my friend and his mother and wanted to go back to Llanelli from Swansea got on the train and showed the conductor the ticket he said it was the write train 4 stops later we were in Bridgend and we had to get off and get a GWR train back to Swansea and get a diffrent train back to Llanelli witch took about an exter 2 hours

Probably under tfw but not had anything that bad yet

We got good sounding engines on our trains.

How about spending the 35 billion earmarked for HS2 on getting the UK's entire network up to at least a reasonable standard?

I have had trouble with northern rail, trust me its bad

Mate you haven't seen the train travel in the north east

Tut tut. Arriva trains Wales does (used) to cover the whole of Wales. Wales is North and South, not one place - dont upset us North Walians please - we are very different!The trains in North Wales are also very different.

In North wales its quicker to get to all the large English and Scottish cities than it is for us to get to south wales. The cardiff assembly makes Venezuela look competent.

Are we gonna get a review of the TFW trains

Thank god it is finally over, Arriva Train Wales. Their train service is absolutely abysmal and their customer service is non-existent. Train is as about as fast as you cycling. And don't even get me started on the valley train routes and its inflation of ticket prices, absolutely disgusted.

LAST DAY OF ARRIVA SHIT WALES!!!

Electric trains are coming!!

class 143or 142?

it smells like wee :)

wer s my comment

Should wait and see how Keolis amey will perform when they have the new 15 year contract from October 14. I seen the new trains but is it still enough to stop the over crowding?
Answer - I think it is. Can’t wait to see the pacers scrapped or whatever they do with em cause they are just rusty old and leaky buses on train tracks.

check out my channel pls

I work a a dispatcher at Shrewsbury and a lot of problems aren't down to us. The valleys line is under restoration as we improve it for faster services. I would blame Network Rail for these problems.
Also you were riding the old stock and we now run faster, longer services.

Arriva Trains Wales will cease to operate the Wales and Borders franchise in October 2018 when the new Transport for Wales (operated by KeolisAmey) takes over with many service improvements and the entire replacement of the fleet by 2024 (starting in 2019), half of which will be made in Newport, South Wales (for 2022-23 introduction) at a new factory.

I've been on an arriva trains wales about twice as cramped as that.

have you seen what keolisamey is bringing to wales? they are replacing every train and deep cleaning stations!

They are going in october!

Now put the same amount of people onto a two carriage Northern Trains (Pacer) on a morning rush hour and then you'll have some idea of a Northern Rail experience.

Arriva north western is shit worst experience is when it TOOK 28 MINUTES INBETWEEN MANCHESTER PICCADILLY TO MANCHESTER OXFORD ROAD so we missed our connection from Oxford road to manchester Victoria so we had to get two trams across manchester and we where back home an hour later than we should of (this message is .for ATW and ANW ) 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

amazing

Was stranded at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch because Arriva can't maintain their trains so it broke down at Llandudno Junction making 1 platform out of use and I had to get a bus to Bangor.

It's not there fault its the people who lease the trains to arriva trains wales because the government don't care about Wales railways I mean 158s and 175s are alright its just the pacers and they will be all gone within 2 years

utmost respect for filming in such an uncomfrtable environment, and surrounded by people!!! I had no idea there was actually a petition going on, hopefully i'm still in time, i'm on it!

London overground (also run by arriva) are so bad they use 2 car trains. And on the 8 car trains that are in use right now, from may they’re replacing them with 4 car units. It’s already packed enough at 8 cars

Amazing! Can’t stand Arriva! They’re just the worst.

I like the lyingdown seats they look so confortable 🤣🤣🤣

I am a Railway Enthusiast and I think
Passengers blame everything on Train Operating Company's when it is not they fault
Signalling Problems that is down to Network Rail
Rolling Stock not the Train Operating Companys as there don't own the trains as the train are lese out from a leasing companies
Timetable that is down to Network Rail
Late running it depends what is down to
Franchise that who runs it is down to the government
Train Operating Companys take a lot of blame for a lots of things that there don't have any control over
This is just my opinion of the Railways
I use Arriva Trains Wales all the time and there are fantasist on my local line if you want a worse train Train Operating Company try looking a London Midland

My worst train jony was when I went to the air show and the train had 1 coch and there was at leet 40 people standing up and the train was stopping at all the stations

The Pembrokeshire lines are actually quite nice because the trains tend to only be a couple of minutes late and they're completely empty. Even when I went to Manchester for my grandmother's funeral, throughout the 8 hour journey there was almost no one on the train except for a few stops after Cardiff and Swansea. The only bad experience I've ever had on an Arriva train was when I lost my wallet.

The train is not always like that

So if ATW goes kiss goodbye to railway in Arriva, or get a First Train Wales

I was coming back from liverpool lime st and caught my ariva at crewe. As i got on the 2 car train there were alreadly no seats this got worse further along the trip to cardiff the isle was packed with people luckily i had a seat that was reserved for someone but luckily they couldnt make it to their seat. Once we got to newport lots of people pilled off so as i made my way to cardiff i then changed for a gwr to swansea then at swansea were the gwr terminated i changed for a 1 car ariva to my station whitland again that 1 car train was full. As i passed through carmarthen on a sideing there they were all the ariva trains there must of been at least 20 extra cars there. Also i heared on the crewe to cardiff that that train was surpossed to have an extra car well done ariva

Is that 2 carriages in rush hour?!

I heard that Arriva's other rail service, Northern is worse than thier wales train subsidiary.......

Arriva cant run any rail service, look at the Northern Services that are overcrowded & London Overground services that are late during rush hour yet Tfl still allow them to run these services