Why you should take Wales’ Amazing Train: Gerallt Gymro, “Gerald of Wales”
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2024
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I hope you enjoy this little trip through Wales on Transport for Wales’ (formerly Arriva Trains Wales) splendid Gerald of Wales express train. Running form Cardiff to Holyhead once a weekday in each direction, this is by far the best experience you’ll get on the mainline railway in Wales. Take this train before the subsidy disappears!
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Not done it yet but it is on the to do list for this summer, along with the flight back to Cardiff from Valley. What was the hotel you stayed in?
Why does it say 1 day ago u posted that comment but u just uploaded this
I've been on this train a few times travelling South from Chester & I took my late Mum on my last trip & she loved it, fantastic cooked breakfast served by lovely staff & as far as First Class experiences go, it's very special!
How much would a first class child be
shame i wasnt there i could have met you paul as i live in south wales
It's pretty weird for us German railway fans to see such an unfamiliar looking loco with DB badges on it - right in the middle of Wales... great report though! Makes me curious to have some trips around Britain's railways some day.
There were originally Arriva Trains Wales liveried Class 67s powering these trains but at some stage they were swapped out for the DB Cargo ones (same parent company as you'll know). More recently, since the takeover of the Wales & Borders franchise by Transport for Wales Rail Services (KeolisAmey), I'm guessing the locomotives are now hired from DB Cargo.
And yes, considering that the British network was "destroyed" in the 1960s by Dr Lord Richard Beeching (although there have been some line reopenings with more to come), the extent of what remains is rather thorough! We're currently in a period of big investment in the network, with hundreds of brand new trains entering service in the past couple of years into the next several years. Also, infrastructure projects including adding more stations and improving existing ones, electrification of more lines, and big projects like London Crossrail (which is running behind schedule) which will be followed by the controversial High Speed 2 between London and Northern England via the West Midlands.
Glad I'm not the only one who noted the DB Locomotive! Anyone know the reason it's in Wales on this route!?
Crosscountry Trains is part of DB for now
@@joell649 it's hired; made more sense when it was Arriva Trains Wales.
@@FBUK300 Arriva UK Trains currently operates under the CrossCountry, Northern, Chiltern Railways, Grand Central and Arriva Rail London (branded as London Overground as operating for them) names. Arriva has been partially owned by DB since 2000, fully owned by DB since 2010 and now DB are looking at selling Arriva. Arriva Trains Wales may have looked odd against the other brands; made more sense back in 2003-2004 with Arriva Trains Northern and Arriva Trains Merseyside fresh in peoples' minds.
Though I'm American by birth, my Welsh lineage goes back to my great-grandfather who emigrated in the early 1910's. Our family name (Roberts) has many ties to Caernarfon Castle, and I'm more than grateful to get a glimpse of the countryside where my great-grandad grew up. Many thanks, Paul.
Your videos on rail travel are interesting and informative. As a retired railroad conductor in the USA your journeys spurn the imagination. Thank you for the time and effort that you take to present these wonderful travel logs.
As someone else has already pointed out there's a small mistake in the video. The bridge with the rail track is the Britannia Bridge. The Menai Bridge is just a few hundred metres away and is a car and pedestrian only suspension bridge.
You now have me putting Wales on my list! Food looks terrific! The weather looks great..very lucky! Love the country views and a bit like travelling through France....Love the house on the island! What a great trip...as always Paul well done!!!
What a marvelous journey filled with beautiful scenery and enhanced by the delicious food. The rack of lamb looked delicious.
The full, cooked Welsh Breakfast in the mornings is pretty tasty as well!
Great video! When I visit the UK again I'll be sure to ride this train! My favorite shot had to be at 5:35, the combination of a Class 37 and a hot air balloon makes it near perfect!
I originally started watching your channel for the aviation content, though watching your train content has been very enjoyable and helped get me more interested in trains. In fact, next week I am taking my first long distance train trip on Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited from Boston to Chicago in a Viewliner Roomette. I am very excited! Love your videos!
I started by watching his train content first and fell into his air content. It has really been an interesting and fun journey watching Paul mature and improve his presentation and channel. For those of you that can afford it try supporting him on Patreon. I treat this a entertainment so I don't mind supporting it financially.
What a great trip, hopefully the bean counters won't get their way and cut this. And you're right about Chester, a really lovely place to visit. Don't forget your bow and arrow in case there are any Welshmen there after dark!
At the moment there are just two sets of Class 67 locomotives plus Mark 2 carriages plus DVT to operate each day's northbound and southbound "Gerald of Wales" train services, so First Class travellers can only have breakfast or dinner served to their seat. Transport for Wales (Rail) is hoping to introduce three trainsets using newer carriages cascaded from the East Coast Main Line, each working three single trips per day between Cardiff and Holyhead, so passengers travelling during the middle of the day will be able to enjoy Lunch as well!
What a lovely trip! My late grandfather used to work on trains, and he instilled in me his love of them. Here in America, unfortunately, we don't get much opportunity to ride them, though.☹ I rode one that was just for fun in England, though, and loved it! It was lots of fun! Would love to be able to do it again sometime.
Air travel reviews are good but your rail reports are brilliant.
I am very pleased to see another train video. Thank you very much, Paul!
Always get excited to see a new video in my feed :) Thanks for the report!
As a Cheshire lad, thanks for the great comments regarding Chester. It is a great place to visit. And as I have relations in North Wales with a farm that over looks the Duke Of Lancaster your video has reminded me just how much I take for granted the scenery in and around where I live. Look forward to your future films :-)
Chester should just be annexed by North Wales. Don't struggle. Just let it happen.
Price seems like a good value. That food was fab looking!
I've said it before Paul, you need to move into the complete travel experience. The transportation, location, the food, the lodging. Rick and Rudy dont own the travel market and there's a real gap/potential for that on CZcams. Your editing and voice over now are of top professional quality. I think you'd be a "travel star/guru" to the masses in just several years.
I really love your train travel videos. You have just the right mix of quiet and talk. I watch lots of train travel and hate the videos that are completely silent, you do a great job.
Love the train reviews! Love the scenery, the nerdy details, the food reports... all of it.
Great video as always Paul, thanks. I'll add this journey to my bucket list.
Wow very luxurious train!! And the leader, 67 the name is unicorn! Great job
Great video.
There is just something so magical about the UK and a nice clear sunset.
Good to see you include 'The Duke of Lancaster' Paul.
Now there's a saga...!
One of my favorite reports of yours. Really liked the production, the trip, and the lighting. Nice Job
It is so good for me to refresh my memory when taking trains in Wales. The journey was great. Maybe I should make a plan to take train to Holyhead and go to Ireland by ship.
I've been on this train twice before and am going to be going on it again in a few weeks - it's marvelous!
I love wales 🏴 and been many times both south, middle and north, friendly people, amazing scenery and great food, I highly recommend going....cheers Paul, great video 👍🏼😊
Excellent and fascinating trip report. Great to have something different and combined with the flight back makes it very appealing to try!! Thanks, Paul.
Thanks Paul, your content and knowledge is wonderful. Keep going, we all will be here.
Great video Paul - you’ve come into your own since going ‘pro’! Love the depth of information you provide 👍
Love the black-and-yellow "shark's tooth" stickers to reinforce the "keep clear" message around the window. =3
As usual an excellent, compact video by Paul. I felt as if I was there on the train with Paul. I really enjoy these videos.
Nice video of a fab journey (although I've only done it Class 175s). I'm surprised you missed out the best bit of the journey, that alongside the Long Mynd/Church Stretton!
As of 7th June (2021), the service was relaunched post COVID~19, still with the 67s, but with refurbished Mk.4 stock.
It's no longer called Y Gerallt Gymro/Gerald of Wales, and under TfW, it's now the Premier Service.
Paul, I enjoy your videos a lot. Always very informative and you have a you have a pleasant sounding voice on microphone. I also enjoy the variety of your trip reports! Most channels are solely focused on premium cabin flights - which I do enjoy. I love trains but don't get to utilize them very often or unless I'm in Europe. Definitely my favorite mode of travel. Keep up the good work.
Great trip. Never knew such a service existed. Will so be doing that!!
You had me a crab cakes! I've done this journey in reverse in the morning, and enjoyed every minute of it - before the days of phone wifi. The breakfast was top notch too. Thanks for a train video too. 😉
Wow this looked incredible!!!! It’s nice to see that rail service is still a thing
QFS Aviation rail service is extremely popular in the UK. It’s not like the US where the only high usage route is the northeast corridor.
QFS Aviation “still a thing” just because the US has shitty rail service doesn’t mean it’s not a thing 🙄
Amtrak sucks, but Brightline is a whole another thing. I rode it a few days ago and it was by far the best experience I ever had on any mode of transportation.
maybe the OP is referring to the catering (in particular the proper restaurant in first class)
@@RollerVisionStudios I just saw your comment and checked out Brightside. It looks amazing and such an upgrade from something like Amtrak which is completely outdated. I wonder if there are more companies like Brightside in other areas of the country. Otherwise, I hope they expand soon, because only having 3 locations in Florida really limits their customer base.
I have always enjoyed your Journeys as well as your excellent narration.Its makes us feel that in. Reality we are travelling.Awesome Sir All the Best
Fab video. Nice to see you on our little island. Looking forward to your valley to Cardiff trip report. I fly that route quite a lot. It's a gorgeous flight.
The bridge you crossed was the Britannia Bridge rather than the Menai Bridge.
Love your vids.
Finally!!!! I have been wanted to see this!!!!! Thx u Lucas !”
I live on Anglesey and have never taken this train journey. It was a delight seeing the island from this perspective. Great video, thank you!
Fabulous video, Paul - you certainly chose the weather!
This looks so nice, especially the food.
I used to commute on an identical orange 67 called Keith or something... Much less glamorous with non-refurbished carriages and a massive cage 'of shame' where you stand when you don't get a seat...
Sounds like one for the bucket list👍 Superb video
Always enjoy your trip reports. Thanks.
Love to see ever changing landscape in Wales!, and the menu and the food of dinning car which is regrettably diminishing.
Great tks to you, Paul.
For a significant part of the rail journey, between Abergavenny and Chester, the "North and West Line" is in England, not Wales.
Fantastic production as always. Thank you for letting me have a part in making this one.
Thank you! 👍🏻
Thank you for filming the departure!
That is amazingly good value, the food looks fantastic.
Beautiful trip and I’ve always loved north wales 🏴 cheers
Can't wait to see the eastern airways flight video.
I would love to go on that short flight as it daily flies over my town and seems interesting to go from RAF Valley!
I've done it and it is a great little flight. Very good for a day trip and pretty cheap as well.
Amazing video Paul i enjoyed it
Hmmm £85, £57 with a Railcard Discount is pretty good value for money, considering a 3-Course restaurant quality meal, & complimentary non- alcoholic drinks are included 👍🏻
It could work out cheaper if you buy an advanced purchase Standard Class travel ticket and then upgrade it on the train by paying a Supplement to the Conductor. I'm told that there are almost always a few empty seats in the Restaurant Car, even on Friday evenings!
How do you buy it? @@DaveSuperThomas
@@webstereo - Online, via the Transport for Wales (Rail) web site.
@Smokeango you've 3 million a year to spare funding a train service? Fantastic. Thanks for sharing your wealth.
great video as always
Just come across your site..your narrative and content is suburb, I'm going to try some of these trips..wonderful, good luck,happy travelling. 😎😎😎😎😎
The signal box at Shrewsbury is amazing!!!
Absolutely love Wales,
I wasn't aware of an Intercity train before.
Thanks for making this.
It's actually the only train operated by Transport for Wales (as opposed to Great Western Railway) which currently offers Business Class accommodation. Incidentally, a Business Class travel ticket for the "Gerald of Wales" train gives access to the First Class Lounge (or, if you prefer, "Lolfa Dosbarth Cyntaf") at Cardiff Central Station!
Never heard of the Gérald of Wales service before looks very good
Great coverage..
Paul, your rail route videos are really good. I remember these old signals here in India also but I think all have been upgraded...
Great video! The brdge you cross at 8:20 is the Britannia Bridge (most locals call it the new bridge). Menai Bridge is the suspension bridge you see as you're crossing.
Really informative video, Paul. Looks like it would be a great journey to take (as you point out). Learn something new everyday.
The scenery along the route of the Welsh Marches (aka "North and West Line) Railway is truly fantastic, from the start of the journey near Cwmbran (when you pass Blorenge Mountain and Holy Mountain), through the middle of your journey (when you pass Wenlock Edge and the Long Mynd) right up until the end, when you are travelling along the North Wales coast at Llandudno and at Colwyn Bay! It really is one of the "Great Railway Journeys of Britain! - if not the world.
I watch all your videos and never even realised that you were on the exact train until I got off in Prestatyn 😂
That's got to one for the 'Bucket List'! Thanks Paul.
7:20 I have visited the Duke Of Lancaster by motorboat when crossing the Dee from West Kirby...
Very enjoyable video thanks Paul 👍😀
Well I never knew that service existed - and now I wanna go on it! Thanks Paul
At the beginning that Class 150 reminds me of the old Silverlink 150 that used to run back and fourth past my school in the mid 90s. Great Trip Report as always, perfect channel, planes and trains, next... ships?????
Great video Paul.
Epic, I’m going to go on that. I’m from Cwmbran so it will be easy. Great vlog Paul. 👍🏴💙
nice video paul also must agree with you about north wales was there for a week three years in a row there is so much to see i would highly recommend it people are lovely too.
Really enjoyed it! On my next trip to the UK I want to visit Wales.
Keep up the very good work!!!
Hi paul. i live in RAF Valley so we see you fly out in the morning just after the school run lol. enjoy your short but yet beautiful views of snowdonia. keep up the awesome vids :)
5:23 Those signals are still operating in Abergavenny to this day!
Hah! Newport. That's where I was yesterday.
Having taken a train from Newport to Abergavenny I can definitely say people using this train can be happy they kept the same carriages, and hopefully the same cleaners. It was a bit of a mess.
Lovely trip! And a beautiful part of the world.
Paul, thanks for another great video. Loved seeing the countryside. I only wish ire video was much longer.👨🏻🦳
We've been to Cardiff and Chester. They're both beautiful.
What a great train service!
Did a bit of this journey once from Hereford to Chester in 1st Class, The food was wonderful and washed down with a couple of bottles of Welsh Beer which was nice, funniest thing about the trip was a week or so before a mate of mine who was with me at Hereford races on the day was booked on the same train but i bought the last 1st Class seat so he had to make do in standard and where as i a nice three course meal he made do in his own words with "a bag of crisps and a coffee"
Worth noting this trip also passes another racecourse aswell as Chester as it passes Ludlow racecourse which is a proper rustic jumps track a couple of miles north of the station, totally different than Chester is on a raceday
AAhhhhhhh, you missed off the amazing station at Conwy.......great video!
Hi Paul I did the Premier Service from Shrewsbury to Cardiff Central both ways last Wednesday in Standard class and I thought the service was fantastic and I enjoyed I always travel on the Premier Service when I visited Cardiff
Great vidio from a real train lover
Great video uncle Paul!!
I like your editting style and how you deliver anything during your trip. I hope next time you'll come back to Indonesia and take a trip here with the train, especially the business class train. Because it will be discontinued soon. Thank you
Greetings from Java Island, Indonesia.
Love the train vlogs...
I love Wales. I was there recently. One thing that really shocked me on this trip was all of the trash on the sides of the roads, in the streets and in the countryside! It's as if the kids there and some other types really have no respect for their environment and country, such a pity. Other than that, I love it!
STAY OFF 737's!!! Be safe in your travels. Thanks so much for sharing and posting your videos. I really do enjoy the videos. I like that you film the airports and the rail stations and with all the good and the bad about each location.
Only the MAx 8 and 9's. The vast majority of 737's aren't affected. Since most places have now grounded all the Maxes, not to worry!
Awesome video!😸
Great video! I live in Cheshire and had never heard of this service.
You've got a point though about North Wales. It's a beautiful part of the UK. I normally head to Llangollen when I'm there and head up via the Horseshoe Pass. Stunning.
ant647448336 The one time I was in Wales I was at Llangollen singing at the Eisteddfod with a US choir. Loved Horseshoe Pass and the drive up to Carnarvon. Reminded me of New Hampshire in the US. There is a railroad station in Llangollen, but I never saw any trains.
Paul Somers Llangollen is the eastern end of the Llangollen Railway, which is a preserved line where you can take a steam train up the valley to Carrog. Unfortunately the line was closed as part of the national network in the mid-60s during the Beeching Cuts - I can just remember waving to the trains which ran between my uncles’ farm and the River Dee at Corwen, but the line closed when I was 6 or 7.
The A5 road goes from Holyhead to Mable Arch London. Built to 'join' Ireland with London by stagecoach.
I have a very special trip in mind from Kings Cross to Sunderland this year all going well.
Loved this Paul, I live in Shrewsbury and I am a former railwayman.
Hello @Wingin' it! Paul Lucas. fantastic channel you have, BTW, Wales is seriously stunning, and a truly fantastic video, All The Stations, a while back took the same Journey you have done, only on the Holyhead to Caredydd service. Also, another hidden Gem, for a railway journey that you should do, is the Conwy Valley Line, from Llandudno to Blaenau Ffestiniog. And in terms of flights to review, try flying Isles Of Scilly Skybus. Plus keep up the excellent content as well. :)
I did this trip years ago, similar weather on route to Dublin. The fare from Shrewsbury to Holyhead was about £50 and that included the meal!
Paul, you're an awesome trip reporter on train journeys. If you visit the United States, fly to Chicago and ride Amtrak's California Zephyr. It's a spectacular two-night three-day journey. You wake up in Denver the second day and pass through the high Rockies and then follow canyons throughout the day. In the evening you race through deserts and Arches National Park. The next morning you wake up near the Nevada salt flats and climb up the Sierra Nevadas. You head through trees and descend down to Sacramento. The part of the route from Reno, NV follows the original transcontinental railroad! Can't wait to see more!
Great train. That meal looked very tasty.
Less than 2k. Keep going Paul!! Forgot to mention LNER have announced the Azuma service starting in May. Leeds to London in first would be a great review subject.
Magnificent excursion indeed.
Are we sure this is the UK, I've not seen weather like it! Paul, the presentation of your videos (especially the voice over parts) are so proffesional, they are television travelshow quality. I throughly enjoy watching you trip reports. M.
That looked good, it is a shame that the line doesn't go through the heart of Wales! I've done the journey to the north of Wales by road and air so i think next time i'll give that train a try! Great video!
Good video.