TfW, 1st Class Loco hauled Premier Service - Cardiff to Holyhead, dining with a beautiful view.
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- čas přidán 4. 02. 2022
- Join me on a scenic trip on board Transport for Wales from Cardiff, capital city of Wales to Holyhead in the far north.
We’ll be travelling on board Mk4 coaches hauled by a Class 67 loco in 1st class sampling the delights of the on board catering.
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Date of Travel - 01.02.2022
Departure Station - Cardiff Central, Wales
Arrival Station - Holyhead, Holy Island, Wales.
Class of Travel - First Class.
Rolling Stock - Class 67 Loco, Mk4 coaches.
Cost of Journey - £77.80.
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Looks amazing, especially the breakfast. The kind of journey that you never want to end.
Thanks for an informative and well-produced video report. Cardiff to Holyhead via England - a really useful long-distance connection. Glad to see the Mk4 coaches enjoying a new lease of their comfortable and quiet lives.
Hi mate, thank you for watching - much appreciated. It’s a lovely route and I do prefer the Mk4 coaches so it’s still nice to ride them.
It's CONWY not Conway! The Menai Suspension Bridge is the old A5 road bridge. The railway crosses on the Britannia Tubular Bridge which was rebuilt following the 1970 fire that destroyed the original bridge.
Apologies 👍
@@TheGeordieTravels If you are English its Conway. Just like Koln is Cologne!
really liked your trip, it is comfortable, green and uses a rebooted asset already made some years back, it is win,win for wales, england and the environment. thank you
Cheers mate, appreciate the comment and thank you fir watching.
What a lovely journey! I am definitely adding it to my list. Thanks for taking us along🙂
Hi, thanks very much for watching. It is a lovely journey made up of such a diverse landscape from the city to the sea!? I’d definitely recommend it.
I don’t really know why, but for some reason I thought food was free on first class.
You can tell I am not a first class traveller.
The buzzing is the sound that confirms the Mark 4 and DVT is in sync with the loco
Yeah I now know mate, cheers. 👍
Still got that familiar sound from the MK4s.
I have noticed in 2023, that the price for 1st class on TfW trains is £70 one way. Also, I say this new second hand coachs are a lot better then the ones they used to have. Before 2020 they used to have just one train a day that had 1st class in each direction, the other Cardiff to Holyhead trains were stander class trains.
Great video again. The breakfast looked delicious. 4.5 hours seems awfully slow to Holyhead - sounds like a round about way via every available valley! Specially when London can be done in 2 and a bit hours.
Cheers mate, it is a long journey granted but if scenery and nice meal is your thing it’s a nice journey to take.
That's how long it takes. Look at the map and you'll see there are no other rail routes, and unlike South Wales - London you aren't travelling on lines suitable for 125 mph.
It's a bit like the difference between driving around in country lanes that twist and turn, or along a nice smooth motorway.
Another fab video, i can see the videos improving since i watched your first trip report. food looks amazing!
Cheers mate, always appreciated. The food was lovely, even better when it’s cooked fresh on board.
Great video mate great review hope you do more of these 👍
Cheers mate - appreciated 👍
Excellent video! I've sampled the 17:16 Cardiff to Holyhead several times in First Class and always found the food and the staff to be extremely good. My most recent journey was just before Covid. First Class was full and I hope it continues to be a popular service.
Hi, thank you for watching - much appreciated. Yes, the staff were very friendly and the food / service was excellent. I’ve only ever been on it once so I am considering trying it again but for the evening menu!? See what the new year brings.
@@TheGeordieTravels You're very welcome. I've not travelled on the Restaurant services recently, I know they've changed it so you now have to pay for the meals, whereas before it was included in the cost of the First Class ticket or upgrade. It's always been brilliant though.
Likewise the last time i used this service it was the 17:16 pre Covid.I was very lucky in as much as I purchased an Advance single from Cardiff to Shrewsbury !st Class including meal for £25.That deal is now firmly gone forever but it was a fantastic experience all round.
Nice video, with good coverage of the journey and train, but please note, at 14:13 the bridge was the Britannia Bridge, not the suspension bridge which is road only.
Hi mate, thanks for watching - totally appreciated, yeah i know, apologies for the slight mistake.
Just found your channel and it`s really good. Nice video and I`m always very interested on meals in trains !!! Thank you.
Hi mate, thank you for watching and your support is very much appreciated.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, boss!
Cracking little trip, Sunset would be really good time, too, I reckon!
Like you, I prefer curtains. If the sun's in my eyes it won't be in the eyes of the person opposite..
Depends which buzzing you mean - the constant one seems to be a "feature" of these and some Mk 3 coaches.
The other one I could hear sounded like the aircon system, again, common on coaches of this vintage!
Thanks for taking me along.
Haha, yeah i know mate - just got it the wrong way around. I’m still blaming autocorrect for all my mistakes!?! The trip in the evening would be great, nothing better than a beer watching the sun go down but thanks for watching - much appreciated.
How strange is it for me to see you in a MK4 coach travellig with out the overhead wires, travelling from Leeds and Doncaster to London regular on the trains it is good they are being used rather than scrapping them. Thanks for the insite to the "NEW" trains for wales!
Thanks for watching mate, I do love these Mk4 coaches and find them so much better than what replaced them, long may they be used.
You're correct to assert that the First Class Customer Lounge ("Lolfa Dosbarth Cyntaf" if you prefer the Welsh language version) at Cardiff Central Station is available to holders of Transport for Wales Business Class tickets for use on the thrice-daily dining train services to Holyhead/Caergybi, but it's so cramped and poky that I don't usually bother. Considering that Cardiff Central Station is the gateway to south Wales and the place where GWR's inter-city Class 800 trains from London Paddington arrive, the First Class customer lounge is little short of a disgrace. It lacks toilet and shower facilities, not to mention proper work stations for business travellers who need to work on their laptops. I'm surprised that Members of the Welsh Parliament haven't been objecting loud and long to this unsatisfactory situation.
Thank you for watching, I never made it into the lounge as it was closed - although the website stated it opened at 6am, it didn’t. I appreciate your comments and agree as a capital station with a gateway to everywhere it should offer better facilities!? Maybe GWR and TfW should get their heads together!?
Loved the video, exactly why I'm a Patreon! Trip I'd love to do one day, breakfast looked great.
Cheers mate, appreciated as always. If you ever get the chance it’s a lovely journey.
@@TheGeordieTravels hopefully doing it in summer!
Mm alto ye passed thru it (and many express trains dont stop there) just after the Menai Straits/ Bangor, and going westward, we have the little halt called (in NR/BR terms) "Llanfair PG". Look this up on the web, the rail station with the longest name in the world. (The longest name of any town at all is in N Zealand but that doesnt have a rail station.)
Awsome😊
Hi mate, thanks for watching appreciated.
The door is now locked!
Silly boy. It's Isimbard Kingdom Brunel. But otherwise a fabulous video. Keep it up. Pip Pip.
Hi mate, thanks for watching appreciated. Sorry
How did you get Cardiff so empty, I live very close to Cardiff and have been there many times and its never been that quiet! You would have gone through my home town of Abergavenny though!
Hi mate, the air conditioning unit in my hotel room kept me awake most of the night so at 05.00hrs I decided to leave to start filming. It was eerily quiet?!
Croeso i Gymru 🏴
Diolch am wylio, gwlad hollol hyfryd
Brilliant video, I think it’s lovely how LNER coaches got transferred to work these services, Good comfort, Well catered for and good scenery! What more could you ask for? Also, The DVT looks like the intercity 225 front 😄
Edit: oh and I also subscribed too you! Keep up with the good videos
Hi mate, thanks for watching - appreciated and thanks for subscribing too. Totally agree, i love the older coaches, by far more comfortable.
What a beautiful trip. Are there any hotels within walking distance of Holyhead Station?
Hi, thanks for watching - it really is a lovely journey. I didn’t notice any, there are a couple of pubs nearby that may offer accommodation. I had a look at Booking.com, there’s a couple of places town centre - maybe a 10 minute walk or so. Hope this helps.
Great video mate. TFW have a good fleet on their trains but sad that 175s and 158s are leaving cause the new 197s Civity units will replace them
Thanks mate, appreciated as always. I’ve just been on a TFW 158, its an experience!?
Beware often replaced with a 2 car 275 unit been happening a lot recently t f w services have been a shambles recently in the Cardiff Newport area
Hi, thanks for watching, appreciated. Noted as I intend to try the evening menu on this at some point.
I got the 06:45 from Cardiff central today to Holyhead it was on the Gerald of Wales I was in first class I had a cooked breakfast then I got the 16:36 from Holyhead to Cardiff in first class which was the Gerald of Wales and I had a 3 course meal so it looks like i was on the lucky side. Bc it did not get replaced
I keep wondering whats that humming buzz noise heard underneath those MK4s? They sound like aircon units and they do go off everytime a 90 or 91 goes through a neutral section, they go back on when the 90s or 91s are back on the live sections on the OHLE
Views of Snowdon etc?
Just wondered why you renamed Mr Brunel?
Oops 😬 sorry Mr Brunel
@@TheGeordieTravels Issy to his friends😅
Great video, I was looking for something like this as I'm doing this route soon. Quick question though, when you were leaving Chester you were going backwards but then in the next clip you're going forwards, did you swap seats or something? As I want to be on the sea facing side when going through the north of wales when I travel soon. Cheers
Cheers mate appreciated and thank you for watching. Yes I did move seats as I wanted to the sea views too - there were no seat reservations and about 3 others were on board at the time so moving seats wasn’t really a problem. Hope you enjoy your trip.
Amazing video! I tried booking this between Cardiff & Shrewsbury but it would only let me book first class. How were you able to book this and how did you get it so cheap? Cheers :)
Hi mate, thanks for watching - appreciated. I just booked on the TfW app a few weeks in advance, i do also use a railcard which offers great discounts.
Would you mind trying out the Euston to Holyhead on Avanti West Coast to see what it is like
He already reviewed the Voyagers. But is it the route you want to see?
@@collectivelyimprovingtrans2460 well actually I would like to see both of them reviewed
@@cormacjones12 Well if you want to see the voyagers review check out his Birmingham to London video
Hi, thanks for watching. I travelled back (Holyhead to Chester) on AWC voyager which I recorded so can upload that as a bonus video in the week or 2.
The newer 805/807 should be coming to replace the voyager/ super voyager trains from this year onwards and a review of those trains should be interesting if I may point that little fact out to you
10:18 That wigwag seems a bit off
What was that awful humming noise?