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The head of airports group TBI has criticised the new station being built to serve Wales' only international airport for having a platform that is too short. Keith Brooks, chief executive of TBI, which owns Cardiff Inter- national, argued that the platform should be long enough to take inter-city trains running between Swansea and London in a bid to make the site more accessible
'I think the rail link is super, but what we would like to see is a platform that could take the Paddington train,' said Mr Brooks yesterday. 'The catchment of Cardiff would be hugely extended, but that requires a vision and a leap of faith. At the moment the platform is not long enough.'See the full content of this document
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Mr Brooks also accused the Welsh Assembly Government of failing to give the sort of assistance that had been given to airports in other regions.
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