Ed Sheeran Cardiff shows: Fans warned of travel delays and enhanced security checks
Singer-songwriter is performing a record-breaking four nights at the Principality Stadium
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Your support makes all the difference.Ed Sheeran fans have been warned to plan in advance for the singer-songwriter's stadium shows in Cardiff.
The Grammy-award winning artist will become the first to perform four successive nights at the Principality Stadium, beginning on 21 June (Thursday).
Up to 60,000 fans are expected to attend each night and have been advised to work out their journeys ahead of the show to avoid facing any difficulties with travel.
No trains will run from Cardiff to London after any of the shows due to an unexpected Severn Tunnel closure, and there will be no Valley Line trains after the performance on 24 June (Sunday), according to the BBC.
Services from London will not call at Bristol, while Cardiff trains arriving from England's south coast will terminate at Bristol Parkway - where a bus service will take passengers to Newport for onward trains to Cardiff.
For each night, there will also be a full city centre closure in Cardiff starting at 5.30pm and ending at 11.30pm.
Sheeran has also imposed strict conditions on fans attending any of the 18 shows at his UK stadium tour.
Fans who bought tickets from re-sale sites will still be offered genuine tickets: Sheeran's team revoked tickets sold by known touts, and cancelled tickets listed on the website Viagogo.
ID is required at the door and there is a maximum of four tickets per customer.
Stuart Galbraith, chief executive of promoters Kilimanjaro Live, said up to 10,000 tickets have been cancelled so far across the 18 dates.
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Organisers negotiated with ticket resellers Get Me In, SeatWave and StubHub to ensure they would not list tickets for the tour; however Viagogo ignored the request.
"Customers who have bought from Viagogo can come to our box office [outside the stadium], we invalidate the ticket, give them advice on how to claim a refund and then sell them a ticket at face value, thus saving them huge amounts of money," Mr Galbraith said in a statement.
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