{"id":19318,"date":"2018-02-16T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=19318"},"modified":"2018-02-27T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T11:16:08","slug":"arriva-trains-wales-apologises-to-valleys-commuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/arriva-trains-wales-apologises-to-valleys-commuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Arriva Trains Wales apologises to Valleys commuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arriva Trains Wales have apologised to people using their Valley Lines rail links to Cardiff after increased complaints.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Commuters have said the trains are overcrowded, late and sometimes do not turn up at all.<\/p>\n<p>Arriva Trains admit one in 10 trains in Wales was late last month.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Trevallis, a businessman in Aberdare, said his train had been consistently delayed.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was &#8220;concerned about the future and ensuring the valleys get a good deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another commuter, Laura, said: &#8220;the main problem is the old, dirty, cramped and late trains are the only direct option from Aberdare to Cardiff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Figures supplied by Arriva show that since the company took over the railways in 2003, the number of passengers regularly using the Valleys Lines had almost doubled to 31,000.<\/p>\n<p>The company say this puts pressure on services, as the number of trains has remained the same.<\/p>\n<p>James Nicholas, a spokesman for Arriva said that in partnership with the Welsh Government, they have spent \u00a31m on purchasing five extra trains.<\/p>\n<p>They will be introduced this year, but first have to be converted from electric to diesel.<\/p>\n<p>He said Arriva were &#8220;doing the best we can with what we&#8217;ve got&#8221; but it was difficult to source and buy extra trains to cope with demand, because diesel trains are not made any more.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nicholas apologised for inconvenience to passengers, and said compensation was available &#8220;in extreme cases&#8221; for people that had been inconvenienced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arriva Trains Wales have apologised to people using their Valley Lines rail links to Cardiff after increased complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19318"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19396,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions\/19396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}