Classic route
Ebbw Vale Line
Cardiff → Ebbw Vale Town · Wales
- Distance
- 47 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h
- Average speed
- 47 km/h
- Top speed
- 96 km/h
- Operator
- Transport for Wales
- Train
- TfW Class 150 Sprinter
- Countries
- Wales
- In service since
- 2008
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A coal line carrying people again: passenger trains ended in 1962, came back to Ebbw Vale Parkway in February 2008 and reached Ebbw Vale Town in May 2015, climbing the Ebbw valley off the Newport main line.
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