Major disruption for London trains after emergency incident http://dlvr.it/TW4WzL #Disruption #EalingBroadway #ElizabethLine #GreatWesternRailway
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Worcester to Hereford upgrades mean October half-term journey changes http://dlvr.it/TW3MqT #Disruption #GreatWesternRailway #Hereford #Infrastructure
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Worcester to Hereford upgrades mean October half-term journey changes http://dlvr.it/TW3Mlx #Disruption #GreatWesternRailway #Hereford #Infrastructure
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Storm Austen rail chaos as fallen trees block trains – see list of affected services
A Met Office yellow alert covering London began at 10am and runs through to 9pm, covering a large…
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/150520/ Storm Austen rail chaos as fallen trees block trains – see list of affected services #crosscountry #GreatWesternRailway #Guildford #London #MetOffice #NationalRail #Storm #trains #Weather
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Storm Austen rail chaos as fallen trees block trains – see list of affected services
A Met Office yellow alert covering London began at 10am and runs through to 9pm, covering a large…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #crosscountry #GreatWesternRailway #Guildford #MetOffice #NationalRail #Storm #trains #Weather
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/43587/ Storm Austen rail chaos as fallen trees block trains – see list of affected services #crosscountry #GreatWesternRailway #Guildford #London #MetOffice #NationalRail #News #Storm #trains #Weather
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Storm Austen rail chaos as fallen trees block trains – see list of affected services
A Met Office yellow alert covering London began at 10am and runs through to 9pm, covering a large…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #CrossCountry #GreatBritain #GreatWesternRailway #Guildford #london #MetOffice #NationalRail #storm #Trains #Weather
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1269515/ Storm Austen rail chaos as fallen trees block trains – see list of affected services #Britain #CrossCountry #England #GreatBritain #GreatWesternRailway #Guildford #london #MetOffice #NationalRail #storm #Trains #UK #UnitedKingdom #Weather
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All the London rail closures over Christmas and New Year as Network Rail carry out £152m upgrade works
London Charing Cross, Waterloo East and Cannon Street – 1 January to 3 January: All three stations will…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #Elizabethline #GreatBritain #GreatWesternRailway #london #LondonNorthwesternRailway #NetworkRail #Paddington
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1266818/ All the London rail closures over Christmas and New Year as Network Rail carry out £152m upgrade works #Britain #ElizabethLine #England #GreatBritain #GreatWesternRailway #london #LondonNorthwesternRailway #NetworkRail #Paddington #UK #UnitedKingdom
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£20m plan to improve Oxfordshire’s railways http://dlvr.it/TVxMCM #ActiveTravel #Bicester #GreatWesternRailway #Infrastructure
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Wiltshire trains to be cancelled this month http://dlvr.it/TVnRFb #Disruption #GreatWesternRailway #Infrastructure #Intercity
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Wiltshire trains to be cancelled this month http://dlvr.it/TVnMQx #Disruption #GreatWesternRailway #Infrastructure #Intercity
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BURRY PORT: Chips, a 99 and Amelia Earhart: the new station wall that reads “every stop is a new beginning”
Step off the train at Burry Port and the first thing you’ll see is a plate of chips, a 99 and a seagull with designs on both.
They’re on the first of five graffiti-style panels along the station wall, each carrying one word of a Welsh phrase: “Pob stop yw dechrau newydd”, every stop is a new beginning.
Read along and you pass the playground, mountain bikers in Pembrey Forest, the racing circuit, the airfield, the harbour from above, the church, and a steam engine and its crew next to a Transport for Wales train.
Yw, Dechrau, Newydd: three of the five graffiti-style panels on the station approach, with chips, a 99, the playground, the forest bike trails, the circuit and the airfield (Image: South West Wales Connected CRP)On the platforms, two bigger murals say “Welcome to Burry Port” and “Welcome to Pembrey” in seaside-postcard style, with the lighthouse, poppies, a robin, and a small red aeroplane beside the date 1928.
The date every Burry Port child knows
That was the June morning Amelia Earhart’s plane landed in the estuary off the town, making her the first woman to fly the Atlantic. The centenary is two years away and the panels are getting in early, according to South West Wales Connected, the community rail partnership that commissioned them.
The murals also feature Glynis Johns, the Mary Poppins actress the partnership says has links to the town, and a man it names only as Emyr.
Emyr sold the last Edmondson ticket at the station, the partnership says: the little card tickets railways used for over a century before print-outs and phones. He came to the design workshops to talk about his railway days.
Pob, Stop: the church, the harbour from above, a steam engine and crew, and a Transport for Wales train on the first two panels (Image: South West Wales Connected CRP)“Something everyone can feel connected to”
The panels were designed after workshops with schools, community groups and residents, the partnership says, and then produced and fitted by signmakers ONER Signs.
Transport for Wales paid for most of it, with a contribution from Great Western Railway.
The station hasn’t always been in the news for good reasons. In May 2021 around 100 drunk youths gathered there, a fight broke out on the train to Llanelli and two police officers were assaulted.
The partnership says the artwork is meant partly to “help deter anti-social behaviour through community ownership of space”, as well as to make the station more welcoming.
Eve Sherratt, its community rail officer, said: “This project isn’t just about enhancing the station, it’s about celebrating the people, heritage and creativity that make this area so special. By involving the community from the very beginning, we’re ensuring the results are something everyone can feel connected to and proud of.”
Robyn Jones, customer manager at Network Rail Wales and Borders, said the installation “further enhances what is already one of West Wales’s hidden gems”.
South West Wales Connected is one of more than 75 community rail partnerships in Britain, and is hosted by 4theRegion, the Swansea-based not-for-profit.
A train every half hour, if the money comes
The station is also first in line for the Swansea Bay Metro. Phase A of Transport for Wales’s plan is a new station at Cockett and a train every half hour between Swansea and Burry Port, run from a new Platform 0 at Swansea.
It is the one Metro scheme with paperwork moving: costed at under £50 million, its business case went to the Welsh Government last month. What it doesn’t have is money. Neither the Metro nor St Clears station won anything in the 2025 Spending Review, TfW told councillors in July, and the next one isn’t until 2027.
For now, Burry Port’s new beginning is the wall. The trains stay hourly.
Related stories from Swansea Bay News
SWANSEA BAY METRO: Every new station and tram line now has a price tag, but the funding still has to be found
September 2026: half-hourly Burry Port trains are Phase A.100 drunk youths cause mayhem at Burry Port train station before fight breaks out on train and police officers assaulted
May 2021: the night the station made the wrong kind of headlines.BURRY PORT: 57,000 cubic metres of sand gone as harbour diggers finish on Wednesday
Author
September 2026: the harbour on the panels, dredged at last.Kit Peters is a journalist and the editor of Swansea Bay News, covering Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire since 2020.
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Person hit by train as South West services cancelled
Great Western Railway said: “A person has been struck by a train, leading to all lines being blocked.…
#Bristol #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #GreatBritain #GreatWesternRailway #NetworkRail #Transport #Weston-super-Mare
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Worcestershire Parkway celebrates station café http://dlvr.it/TVYw0N #GreatWesternRailway #Network #NetworkRail #RailNews
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Worcestershire Parkway celebrates station café http://dlvr.it/TVYvLB #GreatWesternRailway #Network #NetworkRail #RailNews
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Watch: Great Western Railway offers video view inside its control room http://dlvr.it/TVSNrZ #Cardiff #GreatWesternRailway #Network #NetworkRail
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Watch: Great Western Railway offers video view inside its control room http://dlvr.it/TVSNgl #Cardiff #GreatWesternRailway #Network #NetworkRail
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Great Western Railway names plushie dragon http://dlvr.it/TVRybp #GreatWesternRailway #Network #RailNews #RailAdvent
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Station staff prepare for Reading Festival and Notting Hill Carnival this weekend http://dlvr.it/TVD18L #GreatWesternRailway #LondonPaddington #Network #NetworkRail
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Station staff prepare for Reading Festival and Notting Hill Carnival this weekend http://dlvr.it/TVD12t #GreatWesternRailway #LondonPaddington #Network #NetworkRail
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GWR faces challenge of getting fans home from the Reading Festival http://dlvr.it/TV6ZGZ #GreatWesternRailway #Network #RailNews #Railcard
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Major disruption for Surrey trains after person hit by train http://dlvr.it/TTlzr9 #Disruption #Godalming #GreatWesternRailway #Guildford
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Great Western Railway Named Among England's Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers
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Great Western Railway sort of sucks. Is it owned by auto dealers trying to ruin public transit? Or is it the inevitable result of privatization?
We paid extra to reserve seats. Day of, and Carriage "D" doesn't exist, and my family has to scrounge for seats across 2 different carriages.
No partial refund since we found seats, as far as I can tell.
UK, why have you let your public services turn to shit? You're not America, yet.
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Watch: Work progressing on reopening Somerset railway line http://dlvr.it/TTXtyk #BristolTempleMeads #DepartmentforTransport #GreatWesternRailway
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Watch: Work progressing on reopening Somerset railway line http://dlvr.it/TTXrrQ #BristolTempleMeads #DepartmentforTransport #GreatWesternRailway
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Full list of London trains cancelled amid punishing 34C heatwave
Rail services in London have begun to be impacted by the latest heatwave. Soaring temperatures are expected to…
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/79281/ Full list of London trains cancelled amid punishing 34C heatwave #GreatWesternRailway #Heatwave #London #trains
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1076491/ Full list of London trains cancelled amid punishing 34C heatwave #Britain #England #GreatBritain #GreatWesternRailway #Heatwave #london #Trains #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Heatwave brings changes for Great Western Railway passengers http://dlvr.it/TTPVV4 #Didcot #Disruption #England #GreatWesternRailway
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Heatwave brings changes for Great Western Railway passengers http://dlvr.it/TTPVTS #Didcot #Disruption #England #GreatWesternRailway
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GWR prepares for crowds attending Henley Royal Regatta http://dlvr.it/TTHSVM #GreatWesternRailway #HenleyonThames #LondonPaddington #Network
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Holidays in southwest England becoming increasingly popular http://dlvr.it/TTBRxS #Cornwall #England #Falmouth #GreatWesternRailway
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Network Rail invites residents to drop-in sessions to discuss return of North Somerset’s Portishead line http://dlvr.it/TT97C4 #BristolBrabazon #GreatWesternRailway #NetworkRail #News
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Network Rail invites residents to drop-in sessions to discuss return of North Somerset’s Portishead line http://dlvr.it/TT95mZ #BristolBrabazon #GreatWesternRailway #NetworkRail #News
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Cotswolds to see transport improvements from train and coach operators http://dlvr.it/TT7Qgn #Gloucestershire #GreatWesternRailway #MoretoninMarsh #Network
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Two GWR steam engines will welcome summer at North Wales railway http://dlvr.it/TT2Vf3 #Corwen #GreatWesternRailway #Llangollen #LlangollenRailway
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Update on OO Gauge GWR Churchward toplight coaches http://dlvr.it/TSwZjy #Churchward #Dapol #GreatWesternRailway #ModelRailways
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Update on OO Gauge GWR Churchward toplight coaches http://dlvr.it/TSwZhN #Churchward #Dapol #GreatWesternRailway #ModelRailways
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Cornish railway line sees 25% more journeys http://dlvr.it/TSqqfb #Cornwall #Falmouth #GreatWesternRailway #LondonPaddington
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Details released of new OO Gauge GWR steam locomotives http://dlvr.it/TSddsj #Dapol #DCC #GreatWesternRailway #ModelRailways