I found this fascinating article today:

Virgin Trains and Arriva Trains Wales (ATW) want to run new services along stretches of the same route to London.

Richard Branson’s firm Virgin wants to run an extra two return services per day between Wrexham and London, in addition to the one it already operates on the route.

ATW also wants to run two new services along part of the same route.

Like the Wrexham and Shropshire service, these would call at Shrewsbury, but begin at Aberystwyth, instead of in North Wales.

at Tuesday, April 21, 2009, Rival Rail Services May Shut Welsh Operator, Archives April 2009

You should read the whole article.

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