{"id":599695,"date":"2026-05-23T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599695\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:26:50","slug":"brand-new-uk-train-route-links-major-english-city-with-underrated-welsh-seaside-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599695\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand-New UK Train Route Links Major English City With Underrated Welsh Seaside Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you live in Liverpool<\/a>, heading off on a summer getaway is about to get a heck of a lot easier. A brand new rail route connecting the northern city and\u00a0a seaside town in north Wales<\/a>\u00a0launched this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A direct train route\u00a0now runs between\u00a0Liverpool and\u00a0Llandudno thanks to a new timetable introduced by\u00a0Transport for Wales (TfW) on May 17. Passengers no longer have to change trains at Chester, instead they can hop on in Liverpool and hop off in Wales after an hour and 45 minutes. The service will run about once an hour from 7am to 7pm and cost around \u00a320 for a single.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Visitors will find plenty to do in the seaside town. Legend has it that\u00a0Llandudno was where\u00a0was where Alice Liddel \u2013 the real-life person who inspired the character of Alice in the Lewis Carroll books\u00a0\u2013 spent her summer holidays.\u00a0The legitimacy of the connection is continually up for debate, but that didn\u2019t stop the town from making the most of it, devising a White Rabbit trail that traverses the many sights in the centre of Llandudno. The Victorian resort is also home to a pier with shops and an arcade, and some glorious coastal walks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new train route comes as part of a major overhaul of services by TfW, which hopes to increase all services by around 50 percent in time for the summer. Other changes will see direct trains from Manchester Airport to Llandudno\u00a0serving Holyhead instead, and the separate\u00a0Wrexham to Chester and Chester to Crewe hourly services are\u00a0now combined into one through service. It will also see the introduction of pay as you go on its train routes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Llandudno
\nPhotograph: ShutterstockLlandudno Pier, Wales <\/p>\n

Colin Lea, TfW Planning and Performance Director for Transport for Wales said: \u2018The new timetable will bring more frequent trains and better connections for our customers in North and West Wales.<\/p>\n

\u2018These changes represent a significant step forward, with a simpler, more consistent timetable and increased capacity across some of our busiest routes. Alongside the introduction of pay as you go, we\u2019re making it easier than ever for people to choose rail and travel sustainably.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Plus: The Sainsbury Centre \u2013 a fantastic gallery with art by Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon and more \u2013 is set for a \u00a390 million transformation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stay in the loop:\u00a0sign up to our\u00a0free Time Out UK newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for the latest UK news and the best stuff happening across the country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you live in Liverpool, heading off on a summer getaway is about to get a heck of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4821,59,57,58,50,4822,387,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-599695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-categories-travel","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-news-transport-travel","tag-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}