Lisa and I having a few days away, exploring Wales.  The class 197 trains up here are ubiquitous for Transport for Wales services - we arrived on Friday intro Chester, spend Saturday on the bus, and on Sunday I took a trip to Llandudno and Blaenau Ffestiniog.  Pictures here, of course, the rail ones.

















My trains mostly on time - worst was an 8 minute late back into Chester last night caused by signalling issues between Colwyn Bay and Abergele / we had to be talked through a couple of signals.  Apart from the Conway Valley train, all comfortably busy - that was quiet yesterday, but then it was a dreary winter Sunday on a service that only runs 4 round trips the whole day.     Class 197 far more comfortable that the IETs (sorry) and I / we have always got table seats (even if we did have to ask for bags to be moved a couple of times) so I'm not sure of the airline pitch.    Train WiFi a bit patchy - but then from Roman Bridge south there's a not unexpected reason.