Classic route
Maesteg Line
Cardiff → Maesteg · Wales
- Distance
- 46 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 55 min
- Average speed
- 50 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Transport for Wales
- Train
- TfW Class 150 Sprinter
- Countries
- Wales
- In service since
- 1992
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
West along the South Wales main line to Bridgend, then up the Llynfi valley on Llynvi and Ogmore metals through Tondu to Maesteg — reopened to passengers in 1992, twenty-two years after the last train.
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