New
ticketless
travel
rules
in
Wales


Ticketless
rail
passengers
in
south
Wales
face
a
penalty
fare
for
the
first
time
today,
as
Transport
for
Wales
extends
its
penalty
fare
zone
to
include
South
Wales
Metro
routes
and
the
Welsh
Marches
line
to
Shrewsbury
and
Manchester.
The
penalty
is
£20,
but
TfW
has
warned
that
it
may
increase
its
penalty
fare
to
£100,
which
would
bring
it
in
line
with
England.
Penalty
fares
do
not
apply
to
passengers
boarding
at
stations
which
have
no
ticket
office
or
machines,
but
they
must
pay
on
the
train
as
soon
as
possible.

Motorway
reopens
after
railway
bridge
work


The
M62
has
reopened
at
Castleton,
near
Rochdale,
after
two
weekends
of
work
by
Network
Rail
engineers
to
replace
a
bridge
over
the
motorway.
Network
Rail
is
investing
more
than
£22
million
to
rebuild
the
42
metre,
2000
tonne
structure,
and
the
M62
has
been
closed
over
two
weekends
to
allow
the
work
to
go
ahead.
A
total
of
120
people
worked
around
the
clock
to
demolish
the
existing
bridge,
on
the
line
between
Manchester
Victoria
and
Rochdale,
using
11
excavators
to
pull
the
old
bridge
apart
while
the
road
below
was
closed.




Manchester
platforms
closed


Two
platforms
at
Manchester
Piccadilly
will
be
closed
until
29
September,
because
engineers
are
installing
new
netting
under
the
trainshed
roof.
The
work,
which
began
in
June,
is
being
carried
out
in
phases
to
reduce
the
disruption,
and
will
continue
until
next
month.
The
latest
platforms
to
be
closed
are
5
and
6,
and
trains
are
being
diverted
to
other
platforms.