Caerphilly railway station
Caerphilly Caerphilly Wales | |
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Coordinates | 51°34′17″N 3°13′07″W / 51.5715°N 3.2186°W |
Grid reference | ST156865 |
Managed by | Transport for Wales |
Platforms | 3 |
Other information | |
Station code | CPH |
Classification | DfT category D |
History | |
Original company | Rhymney Railway |
Pre-grouping | Rhymney Railway |
Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
Key dates | |
31 March 1858 | Opened |
1 April 1871 | Re-sited |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 0.760 million |
2019/20 | 0.713 million |
2020/21 | 0.119 million |
2021/22 | 0.373 million |
2022/23 | 0.525 million |
Location | |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Caerphilly railway station (
History
The first Caerphilly station was on the now-disappeared Taffs Well to Ystrad line. It opened in 1858 and closed in 1871 when the current railway alignment and station opened. The first station was around 250 metres from the current
The current station was built in 1871 as part of the Rhymney Railway. It ended up as a four way junction:
- To the west at Penrhos junction (on the line from Aber Junction to Walnut Tree Junction) with the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway
- To the east through a tunnel to a junction with the Brecon and Merthyr Railway at Machen, and onwards to Newport Docks
As a result of traffic volume, the station was rebuilt in 1913 to four platforms and a west facing bay platform.
Caerphilly was the terminus of the
Present form
With the closure of both junctions and the simplification of the railway to a pure through service as part of the Rhymney Line, the station was rebuilt to a two platform with bus interchange in 1970. The signalling system is currently set up to allow northbound services to terminate in the southbound platform (using a facing crossover) & return directly to Cardiff if required, although this facility is only used during the evenings in the current (May 2013) timetable. The ongoing Valley Lines resignalling scheme will see a new bay platform bought into use at the station for use by terminating trains, which will allow a further increase in service frequencies to/from Cardiff in the future.[2] Plans to develop the station as a transport hub, including a bus interchange, were announced by Caerphilly County Borough Council in October 2022.[3]
Services
Monday to Saturdays there is a train every 15 minutes to Penarth via Cardiff Central and every 15 minutes to Bargoed, with one in four running through to Rhymney.[4] This decreases to hourly northbound and half-hourly southbound in the evenings, with some trains from Cardiff terminating & starting back from here.
On Sundays, there is a two-hourly service each way with southbound trains running to Barry Island.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Lisvane and Thornhill | Rhymney Line
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Aber | ||
Historical railways | ||||
Aber Line and station open |
Rhymney Railway Main line |
Cefn Onn Halt Line open, station closed | ||
Disused railways | ||||
Terminus | Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway |
Gwernydomen Halt Line and station closed |
References
- ^ [1][permanent dead link] Arriva Trains Wales
- ^ The Rail Engineer - Cardiff Area Resignalling www.theraileengineer.com; Retrieved 2013-09-11
- ^ Plans revealed for £40M transport hub in south Wales. New Civil Engineer. 13 October 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-14
- ^ GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 130 (Network Rail)
External links
- Train times and station information for Caerphilly railway station from National Rail