Arriva Trains Wales - The most Overcrowded operator!? | Failed Franchises #25: ATW Part One

Hello & welcome to the twenty-fith episode of my Failed Franchises series. In this series I look at train companies that no longer operate and determine whether they should be viewed as a failure or not! Today is the third episode of my Welsh operators mini-series where I look at the operators in Wales. We are looking at the first 15 years of Arriva Trains Wales operations in this first part of my two-part remastered episode covering the former company!

Part one and Part two are remasters of an older video I made on the company with more information and an overall better watch.

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Arriva Trains Wales' Premier Service at Cardiff Central (33498760195).jpg, Jeremy Segrott from Cardiff, Wales, UK, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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