No trains will serve Abergavenny during its annual food festival due to works to build a new footbridge at the railway station.
Around 25,000 ticket holders are expected to attend festival events over the weekend and event bosses are due to meet with Network Rail which has a series of long planned engineering works taking place on the Marches line, between Newport and, and train operator Transport for Wales, on August 7 works have been scheduled across three weekends in September including when the festival is taking place. Network Rail said the work has been planned over a two year period.
An artists impression of the footbridge that is to be installed at Abergavenny train station. Picture: Network Rail. "In the meantime, we have a large car park at the festival and replacement buses will be running from neighbouring rail stations for those arriving by train." "This work, which has been planned over a two-year period, has to factor in a number of major events in Wales and beyond, and takes careful and meticulous planning.
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