Wales’s transportation is dotted with stream lined transportation facilities:
- Main airports that covers Wales are Cardiff International Airport ) (tel: (01446) 711 111; website: www.cwlfly.com) is 19km (12 miles) from Cardiff. To/from the airport: A rail link connects the airport with Cardiff Central station. The ’Airbus Xpress’ bus X91 runs between Cardiff city center and the airport. Taxis are available through local operator Cardiff Airport Taxis (tel: (01446) 710 693). Car hire is available. Facilities: Restaurants, shops, bureaux de change, ATMs, children’s play area and executive lounge.
- If you want to travel through water, main ports are fish guard holyhead, Pembroke and Swansea all of these ports have connection to the republic of Ireland.
- You can also travel through mainline routes into Wales via London Paddington to fish guard along the south Wales coast. The other links are Holy head with Chester and northwest England. Addition to the line from Cardiff to Chester links the south Wales cities with Abergavenny in Gwent and Wrexham in Clwyd.There are also two smaller cross-country lines: these run from Shrewsbury to Welshpool, Barmouth, Harlech, Porthmadog and Pwllheli; from Shrewsbury via Welshpool to Aberystwyth; and from Craven Arms (on the Shrewsbury–Ludlow line) through Llandrindod Wells and Llandovery down to Swansea.
Steam railways are located at the Beeching era, known in collection as the Great little trains of Wales. The most popular of the steam, railway sites are the Ffestiniog Portmadog in Snowdonia, which has lovingly restored automobiles and carriages from there last century. Others include the Welshpool and Llanfair railway, the Talyllyn railway and the Bala lake railway for locomotion.
You can get there by road the best road to approach to Wales from the south part of England is via the M4 motorway which runs from London to New Port, Cardiff as well as Swansea.
The latest traffic information is available from Traffic Wales (tel: 0845 602 6020; website: www.traffic-wales.com).
Getting Around Towns and Cities
All the major cities have in depth local bus services. There is a good network of local train services extracting from Cardiff. |
