South Wales Metro: Cardiff Queen Street closes as rail services disrupted

The first phase of the South Wales Metro is due to be completed by the start of 2026.

In June, its delivery moved a step closer as TfW began to provide more frequent services for passengers on the Merthyr, Aberdare, Treherbert, Rhymney, City and Coryton lines.

By the point of completion, people living near to stations on the above lines should have access to four trains per hour to Cardiff.

It means Pontypridd would have, on average, a train every three minutes to the Welsh capital.

“When that kind of service begins is the time people go ‘wow, this is a completely different kind of network, a London Underground type service’,” Prof Mark Barry, who has been involved with the scheme since 2011, told the BBC earlier this year.