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With Wales playing Uruguay in the Rugby World Cup, a number of additional trains ran to and from the Welsh capital to cope with the large number of supporters coming to see the match at the Millennium Stadium. Wales won the game 54-9.

Although extra - and strengthened service always operate on days when Wales play international rugby in Cardiff, the numbers attending the two games held in the city over the weekend as part of the World Cup justified an even more intensive timetable on a number of routes. One such additional train was Cross Country's 1M65 1726 Cardiff Central to Manchester Piccadilly service, formed of a pair Class 221 Super Voyagers. Although Cross Country operates an hour service between Cardiff and Nottingham using Class 170 Turbostar DMUs, there is normally only one return Manchester working (Monday - Fridays only) which uses Voyager units, and this rarely comprises two units. First stop on the service was Gloucester, and the train via Chepstow and Lydney.

I didn't quite manage to get the shot that I wanted, with the rear of the train clear of the signal gantry, partly because I presumed that the service would be a single 4 car 220 unit, rather than a pair of 5 car 221 units. It certainly seemed as I stood watching the trains that all the train operating companies were using everything they had available to move the very large number of fans to and from Cardiff.
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Source Pengam, Cardiff: 1M65 1726 Cardiff Central to Manchester Piccadilly
Author Jeremy Segrott from Cardiff, Wales, UK
Camera location51° 29′ 38.46″ N, 3° 08′ 32.68″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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