
North Wales Metro
The North Wales Metro will make it easier and faster to travel between the North Wales Coast, Wrexham, Deeside and Merseyside and improve bus and rail connections.
The South Wales Metro is an integrated public transport network that will make it easier for people travel across the Cardiff Capital Region, transforming rail and bus services as well as cycling and walking.
The Cardiff Capital Region is made up of ten local authority areas:
Building the South Wales Metro
Building the South Wales Metro is an ambitious, multi-million-pound project, and our current plans will take us around five years to complete. We have a significant amount construction, engineering and infrastructure work to do to upgrade our rail network so that it’s ready for the South Wales Metro.
We’ll be:
We’re investing three quarters of a billion pounds to upgrade the railway lines to Aberdare, Coryton, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhymney and Treherbert, which is an important part of the South Wales Metro. These lines are also known as the Core Valleys Lines.
A number of South Wales Metro projects have been part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government.
What progress are we making?
We’ve already started work on the South Wales Metro, with the construction of our new £100 million depot and Metro Control Centre in Taff’s Well, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Our Taff’s Well depot will be home to our new Metro trains as well as 400 train crew, 35 maintenance staff and 52 Metro Control Centre staff.
What improvements can you expect from the South Wales Metro?
We’ll be running more weekday and Sunday services than ever before:
Weekdays
Sundays
While you can expect more frequent rail services across much of our network from 2022, we’ll be introducing a number of improvements in the Cardiff Capital Region before 2022.
New Metro trains
We’re investing £800 million in new faster, greener trains for the South Wales Metro and the Wales and Borders rail service.
We’re busy behind the scenes building these new, more comfortable trains that will provide our customers with a modern, effective, turn-up-and-go Metro service.
South Wales Metro Map
The South Wales Metro will make travelling easier throughout the Cardiff Capital Region with faster, more frequent and more joined-up public transport.
Find out more about how you can benefit from Metro from our latest South Wales Metro rail map: Metro.