A two-hour guided tour ‘behind the scenes’ of the CAF Newport train building factory.

CAF are currently building the Class 196 DMUs for West Midlands Trains and Class 197s DMUs for Transport for Wales

Travel to CAF within Newport

Meet at Newport station booking hall at 11.30.

Then either taxis or Newport Bus service 74A from Friars Walk (Bus Station) stop 13 at 11.55 to Lanwern Clock arrive 12.14 and then a 2.75 km / 1.6 mile / 32 minute walk to CAF Newport at 1 Monks Ditch Drive/Rhodfa Ffos Y Mynach, Celtic Business Park, Newport. NP19 4RH

It is a 6 minute walk from Newport Railway station to Newport Bus Station

The tour commences at 13.00 hrs and concludes at 15.00 hrs

Return to Newport

Either taxis back to the National Rail station or there is a 74C bus at 15.57 bus from Lanwern Clock to Clarence Place, arriving at 16.18. Clarence Place is 6 minutes walk from the station

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Personal Protective Equipment

Protective footwear will be required for the visit.  Please wear your own safety boots / shoes if possible.  However if you don not have these available, please include your shoe size details when making the booking

Booking

Locomotive & Carriage Institution members only please.

To book, please email: Malcom Pym

Educational Free Pass

This is an educational visit, so those members with protected (safeguarded) travel facilities can apply for an educational free pass.  Please see: Free Pass for further information.

The free pass ticket should be from your home station to Newport (Gwent).

National Rail Tickets to Newport

For those cannot use an Education Free Pass (see above) the cheapest ticket combination for the trains above from London Paddington is:

Outward: Advance Single: £59.20 or £39.05 with a valid railcard

Return:  Advance Single £25.60 or £16.85 with a  valid railcard.

It is possible to save on these prices using split ticketing:

London Paddington to Reading:Off Peak Day Return £22.70

Reading to Swindon Advance Single £22.50

Swindon to Newport: Off Peak Day Return £23.00

Swindon to Reading: Advance Single: £9.00

Note that advance tickets are quota-controlled, so booking as early as possible is strongly recommended before the lower price ‘tiers’ sell out. Advance tickets can only be used on the booked train.

Tickets can be purchased at: GWR or any National Rail website. DO NOT use thetrainline or other similar third party sites as you will pay more as these sites charge fees which National Rail Train Operator websites do not charge.

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