English: I sometimes feel great sympathy for the Minister because John, Hefin, other Members here, and myself, get up and we incessantly labour on about the particular interests in our own communities. But we make no excuse for this because I sometimes feel like I'm doing running surgeries when I travel back and forth every day from Maesteg to Cardiff. There, I sit down and speak to people on everything under the sun, but it is very often rail services. And there is excitement, I have to say, about the changes, some of which are imminent - and I'll turn to those on my own stretch of the track at the moment - but also some frustration on the things that have been said. It's great to see that there are more and more rail passenger users. That's a testimony to the fact that people are now switching on to those modes; they're seeing congestion on the roads and so on. But I have to say, I'm fortunate in that I get on the train in Maesteg or Ewenny Road or in Garth, I'm always guaranteed a seat; even on match days, I'm guaranteed a seat. But actually, even on a normal day in peak time, by the time you get to Bridgend, it's filling up; Llanharan, it's full up; Pontyclun, it's standing room only. But there are ways through this. So, I do welcome the fact - . I'm going out tomorrow to look at the refurbished and ultra-modernised class 170 carriages that are being introduced - bigger capacity, more seats, more space, more comfort, with passenger information on board, which we do not have on the current trains, with proper functioning Wi-Fi, we hope, as well. Also with fully accessible toilets, et cetera, et cetera. I'm looking forward to seeing those because those, for my line, will make a real difference at those times when we get to the Llanharan and the Pontycluns, to have more capacity, more seating capacity, is not only what we need and what we absolutely need purely for health and safety, because I've travelled enough on the London tube to know what it looks like, and from Pontyclun inwards, it looks like that increasingly now at peak times. But these carriages will help because they will increase capacity. So, I'm looking forward to seeing those tomorrow. I'm looking forward, as well, to seeing them introduced not just on the regular routes but also on the Sunday service, which is coming on 15 December to Maesteg. Our line has been without a Sunday service forever and a day. People who are alive now, who are 50 years of age, have never seen a Sunday service, myself included. This will be the first time we see it. This idea of creating a seven-day-a-week network, where people cannot only travel for the January sales or in to work in Bridgend and Cardiff on the rail, but also can come up to see us as well, and to see the annual festival we do of choral voices and so on. They can come up to visit us on the train, or they can go walking or cycling up on our hills by coming on the train with it. This is critical. But I do think we're going through a difficult time, and the difficult time is that transition between the high expectations that everybody has, the massive investment that is unprecedented investment that is going to be going into these, and the realisation of that when people are still, on a day-by-day basis, struggling. But I am more of a half glass full than a half glass empty, and I sympathise with people, but I don't sympathise with them by sitting behind a desk thinking, 'Oh, isn't it awful?' I'm doing it every day as well. I do see it. So, we do need to keep our foot on the pedal here, and I know the Minister will. He'll be harangued by me about things like how we can release more capacity on the rail by dealing with the Pencoed crossing and the Pencoed bridge. That is critical to some of the things that have been talked about, because if we can get more frequency of services by dealing with the crossing issue there, along that mainline stretch, we can have not just more carriages, but more trains more frequently going up and down. The investment along the Maesteg stretch of the Maesteg to Bridgend line, in order to get on a single line track, two an hour, maybe three an hour in future or whatever, well, I'm looking forward to seeing the results of the study that the Minister has commissioned on this because I'm really hopeful that in relatively short order, we will be able to signal to people that there is a way forward. I'm sure it'll mean spending some money, but to actually see that, on a busy Monday morning between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., we don't have just two trains - one at 6.50 a.m. and one at 8.04 a.m., but we'll have four trains actually getting us into Bridgend and Cardiff. That's in line with what you're trying to do with the wider network, so we'd like a part of that as well, but we know it will require some significant investment. And that is my frustration with this as well, I have to say, looking at the hard facts and figures of the lack of investment in the hard rail infrastructure over many, many years from the UK Government. And this isn't a political point, it's a point of darn frustration that we could've fixed things in our area and moved to digital loop, for example, with the Tondu loop, to increase the frequency of that - we could've done that 20 years ago if the money hadn't been sucked down to the south-east of England. Now, we've still got a guy who walks up and down the stairs from the signal box to hand over a key to the carriage that comes past. This is Victorian trains. It's very cute and quaint, but for goodness' sake - . So, Minister, keep on pushing hard on this. There is frustration out there, but I think every time we see progress with the 170s on my line, followed by brand new rolling stock a few years down the line, Sunday service on 15 December - each one of those will give confidence to people that we're going in the right direction.
Welsh: Weithiau byddaf yn cydymdeimlo'n fawr â'r Gweinidog oherwydd mae John, Hefin, Aelodau eraill yma, a minnau, yn codi ac rydym yn parablu'n ddiddiwedd am fuddiannau penodol ein cymunedau ein hunain. Ond nid ydym yn gwneud unrhyw esgus am hyn oherwydd rwy'n teimlo weithiau fy mod yn cynnal cymorthfeydd wrth fynd pan fyddaf yn teithio yn ôl ac ymlaen bob dydd o Faesteg i Gaerdydd. Rwy'n eistedd yno yn siarad â phobl am bopeth dan haul, ond gwasanaethau rheilffordd yw'r testun yn aml iawn. Ac mae'n rhaid i mi ddweud bod pobl yn gyffrous ynglŷn â'r newidiadau, gyda rhai ohonynt ar fin digwydd - ac fe drof at y rheini sydd ar fy rhan i o'r trac ar hyn o bryd - ond mae rhwystredigaeth hefyd ynglŷn â'r pethau sydd wedi cael eu dweud. Mae'n wych gweld bod mwy a mwy o bobl yn teithio ar drenau. Mae hynny'n dyst i'r ffaith bod pobl bellach yn troi at y dulliau hynny o deithio; maent yn gweld tagfeydd ar y ffyrdd ac yn y blaen. Ond mae'n rhaid i mi ddweud, rwy'n ffodus fy mod yn gallu mynd ar y trên ym Maesteg neu Heol Ewenni neu Garth, ac rwyf bob amser yn sicr o gael sedd; hyd yn oed ar ddiwrnodau gêm, rwy'n sicr o gael sedd. Ond mewn gwirionedd, hyd yn oed ar ddiwrnod arferol yn ystod oriau brig, erbyn i chi gyrraedd Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr, mae'n llenwi; Llanharan, mae'n llawn; Pont-y-clun, lle i sefyll yn unig. Ond mae yna ffyrdd drwy hyn. Felly, rwy'n croesawu'r ffaith - . Rwy'n mynd allan yfory i edrych ar y cerbydau dosbarth 170 wedi'u hadnewyddu a'u moderneiddio'n llwyr sy'n cael eu cyflwyno - capasiti mwy, mwy o seddi, mwy o le, mwy o gysur, gyda gwybodaeth i deithwyr ar y trên, rhywbeth nad ydym yn ei gael ar y trenau presennol, gyda Wi-Fi sy'n gweithio'n iawn hefyd, gobeithio. Gyda thoiledau cwbl hygyrch hefyd, ac ati, ac ati. Rwy'n edrych ymlaen at weld y rheini oherwydd ar fy rheilffordd i, byddant yn gwneud gwahaniaeth gwirioneddol ar yr adegau pan fyddwn yn cyrraedd llefydd fel Llanharan a Phont-y-clun, er mwyn cael mwy o gapasiti, mwy o le i eistedd, ac nid yn unig fod arnom angen hynny ond rydym yn bendant eu hangen am resymau iechyd a diogelwch, oherwydd rwyf wedi teithio digon ar y tiwb yn Llundain i wybod sut beth yw hynny, ac o Bont-y-clun i mewn, mae'n edrych fwyfwy felly erbyn hyn ar adegau prysur. Ond bydd y cerbydau hyn yn helpu oherwydd byddant yn cynyddu capasiti. Felly, rwy'n edrych ymlaen at weld y rheini yfory. Rwy'n edrych ymlaen, hefyd, at eu gweld yn cael eu cyflwyno nid yn unig ar y llwybrau rheolaidd ond ar y gwasanaeth ar y Sul, sy'n dod ar 15 Rhagfyr i Faesteg. Mae ein rheilffordd wedi bod heb wasanaeth ar y Sul ers amser maith. Mae pobl sy'n fyw yn awr, sy'n 50 mlwydd oed, erioed wedi gweld gwasanaeth ar y Sul, a minnau yn eu plith. Hwn fydd y tro cyntaf i ni ei weld. Mae'r syniad hwn o greu rhwydwaith saith diwrnod yr wythnos, lle gall pobl deithio i sêls mis Ionawr neu i weithio ym Mhen-y-bont ar Ogwr a Chaerdydd ar y rheilffordd, a gallu dod i'n gweld ninnau hefyd, a gweld yr ŵyl flynyddol o leisiau corawl ac yn y blaen. Gallant ddod i ymweld â ni ar y trên, neu gallant fynd i gerdded neu feicio ar ein bryniau drwy ddod ar y trên gyda hynny. Mae hyn yn hollbwysig. Ond rwy'n credu ein bod yn mynd drwy gyfnod anodd, a'r amser anodd yw'r pontio rhwng y disgwyliadau uchel sydd gan bawb, y buddsoddiad enfawr a digynsail yn y rhain, a gwireddu hynny pan fo pobl yn dal i'w chael hi'n anodd o hyd, o ddydd i ddydd. Ond rwy'n fwy o berson hanner gwydr llawn na hanner gwydr gwag, ac rwy'n cydymdeimlo â phobl, ond nid wyf yn cydymdeimlo â hwy drwy eistedd y tu ôl i ddesg yn meddwl, 'O, onid yw'n ofnadwy?' Rwy'n ei wneud bob dydd hefyd. Rwy'n ei weld. Felly, mae angen inni gadw ein troed ar y pedal yma, a gwn y bydd y Gweinidog yn gwneud hynny. Byddaf yn pregethu wrtho am bethau fel sut y gallwn ryddhau mwy o gapasiti ar y rheilffordd drwy ymdrin â chroesfan Pencoed a phont Pencoed. Mae hynny'n allweddol i rai o'r pethau y soniwyd amdanynt, oherwydd os gallwn gael gwasanaethau amlach drwy ymdrin â mater y groesfan yno, ar hyd y brif reilffordd honno, gallwn gael mwy o gerbydau, a mwy o drenau yn mynd i fyny ac i lawr yn amlach. Mae'r buddsoddiad ar hyd rhan Maesteg o linell Maesteg i Ben-y-bont ar Ogwr, er mwyn mynd ar reilffordd un trac, dau yr awr, efallai tri yr awr yn y dyfodol neu beth bynnag, wel, rwy'n edrych ymlaen at weld canlyniadau'r astudiaeth y mae'r Gweinidog wedi'i chomisiynu ar hyn oherwydd rwy'n obeithiol iawn y byddwn, mewn ychydig iawn o amser, yn gallu rhoi gwybod i bobl fod yna ffordd ymlaen. Rwy'n siŵr y bydd yn golygu gwario rhywfaint o arian, ond i weld, ar fore dydd Llun prysur rhwng 7 a.m. a 9 a.m., nad dau drên yn unig sydd gennym - un am 6.50 a.m. ac un am 8.04 a.m., ond y bydd gennym bedwar trên yn mynd â ni i mewn i Ben-y-bont ar Ogwr a Chaerdydd. Mae hynny'n cyd-fynd â'r hyn rydych yn ceisio ei wneud gyda'r rhwydwaith ehangach, felly hoffem gael rhan o hynny hefyd, ond rydym yn gwybod y bydd angen buddsoddiad sylweddol. A dyna fy rhwystredigaeth gyda hyn hefyd, mae'n rhaid i mi ddweud, gan edrych ar ffeithiau caled a ffigurau'r diffyg buddsoddiad yn seilwaith caled y rheilffyrdd dros lawer o flynyddoedd gan Lywodraeth y DU. Ac nid pwynt gwleidyddol yw hwn, mae'n fater o rwystredigaeth pur y gallem fod wedi unioni pethau yn ein hardal a symud at ddolen ddigidol, gyda dolen Ton-du er enghraifft, a chynyddu ei amledd - gallem fod wedi gwneud hynny 20 mlynedd yn ôl pe na bai'r arian wedi cael ei sugno i lawr i dde-ddwyrain Lloegr. Nawr, mae'n dal i fod gennym ddyn yn cerdded i fyny ac i lawr y grisiau o'r blwch signalau i estyn allwedd i'r cerbyd sy'n dod heibio. Trenau Fictoraidd yw'r rhain. Mae'n bert iawn, ond er mwyn popeth - . Felly, Weinidog, daliwch ati i bwyso'n galed ar hyn. Mae pobl yn rhwystredig, ond bob tro y gwelwn gynnydd gyda'r trenau 170 ar fy rheilffordd i, wedi'i ddilyn gan gerbydau newydd sbon ymhen ychydig flynyddoedd, gwasanaeth ar y Sul ar 15 Rhagfyr - credaf y bydd pob un o'r pethau hynny'n rhoi hyder i bobl ein bod yn teithio i'r cyfeiriad iawn.