A479 open again between Cwmdu and Talgarth after a fallen tree

Traffic Wales had the road shut both ways from 03:25 after a fallen tree. The alert has since come off the live incidents list.

Cover Wales desk · Thu 3 Sept, 07:15 · updated Thu 3 Sept, 07:49

Cover Wales card: A479 open again between Cwmdu and Talgarth after a fallen tree

The A479 between Cwmdu and Talgarth is open again. Traffic Wales had the road shut in both directions this morning after a fallen tree. The alert has come off the live incidents list, which is how Traffic Wales records a closure that has been cleared.

Traffic Wales first published the alert at 03:25, logged it as an incident with the severity set to road closure, and gave a start and an end date of today. It published no diversion and no reopening time.

Update, 3 September 2026, 07:49

This story was filed at 07:15 when Traffic Wales still had the A479 closed both ways. The alert is no longer on the live incidents list. The headline and copy have been updated.

Traffic Wales road traffic alert 594081, first published 03:25 on 3 September 2026, source agency Welsh Government, read at 07:13: Re-read 07:42 and 07:45: the A479 line was gone from the live incidents feed and the homepage, and /594081 no longer carried Cwmdu, Talgarth or a fallen tree.

Sources: traffic.walestraffic.walestraffic.wales

How we verified this(6)

original closure read from traffic.wales/road-traffic-alerts/594081 at 07:13, not from a competitor
incidents RSS at 07:42 and 07:45 carries only A470 Pontypridd to Coryton congestion and A55 Britannia Bridge winds; no A479
alert page /594081 at 07:48 no longer names Cwmdu, Talgarth or a fallen tree
no diversion, casualty figure or reopening time claimed, because Traffic Wales published none
stale present-tense closure copy and the 10-alert board count removed from the live body
story hero is a desk-rendered ledger card, not a notice card

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