To provide plenty of seats for fans travelling to Sunday’s Six Nations rugby match between Wales and France at Cardiff‘s Principality Stadium, Great Western Railway will run 52 trains having more than 27,000 seats.

As for previous rugby matches, before the kick-off at 15.00 Great Western Railway will operate a total of 27 trains to Cardiff, including five additional with an extra 2,600 seats.

Similarly, after the match there will be 25 trains from Cardiff, including five extra services with about 3,000 seats.

Trains immediately after the match are expected to be very busy, and at previous events at the Principality Stadium a queueing system will be in place outside Cardiff Central station.

Anyone travelling after the game should leave plenty of time to queue to board their trains safely.

Supporters travelling east towards Newport will be directed to queueing areas on the square in front of Cardiff Central, instead of Riverside Car Park.

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GWR Operations Director, Richard Rowland, said: “We are pleased to once again be able to support travel to/from the Principality Stadium; however customers are advised that trains immediately before and after the match will be really busy, and a queuing system will be in place at the station.

“We would encourage customers to check journey times and allow sufficient time to board trains safely.”
Transport for Wales Head of Performance, Adam Terry, said: “We’ll be providing as much capacity as possible on services in and out of Cardiff before and after the game, but we’d advise all customers to plan their journeys careful, leave plenty of time to travel and check for the latest updates throughout the day using our website or our award-winning mobile app.

“Our major events team work incredibly hard to ensure everyone gets into Cardiff and home again safely and we’d like to thank our customers in advance for their patience towards our staff and their fellow passengers during another busy weekend on the rail network.”