Railway work suspended due to Taylor Swift performance

Network Rail has agreed to halt construction work to avoid disruption for fans travelling to Taylor Swift’s concert at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium next month.

A ten-day closure is planned on the Vale of Glamorgan route between Rhoose Cardiff International Airport and Bridgend from Saturday 8 June to Monday 17 June.

But it will reopen for the concert on Tuesday, June 18th.

During the “essential” maintenance work, trains will be replaced by buses, Network Rail warned.

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The singer will be in Wales as part of her Era tour.

With the tour, which began on March 17, 2023 and will last until December 2024, Swift has earned more than $1.04 billion – with sold-out concerts, hotels and crashed ticket sites.

Not to mention that one concert even caused an earthquake.

The singer’s concert in Cardiff was sold out within minutes and many fans were looking for tickets from resale.

Online scammers took advantage of this: one Welsh fan lost up to £250 when she was scammed.

Some legal Cardiff resale tickets cost £3,352.