General information | |||||
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Location | Caerphilly, Caerphilly Wales | ||||
Coordinates | 51°34′17″N3°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 | ||||
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Caerphilly railway station (Welsh :Gorsaf reilffordd Caerffili) is a railway station serving the town of Caerphilly,south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network. The station is located at Station Road in the south of the town. Facilities include a small shop and a ticket kiosk. A self-service ticket machine was installed near the entrance to the station on 22 December 2008. Several advertising murals depicting holiday travel in various parts of South Wales have been placed on the northbound side of the station in order to improve the 'look' of the station. [1]
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 Aber station but on a completely different alignment.
The current station was built in 1871 as part of the Rhymney Railway. It ended up as a four way junction:
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 Rhymney Line from Penarth from 5 September 2008 to 19 September 2008 due to a landslip that blocked the line near Llanbradach railway station due to the poor weather conditions. Replacement bus services operated the route between Caerphilly and Bargoed/Rhymney. Train services subsequently resumed as normal.
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]
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 | Transport for Wales Rhymney Line | 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 | ||
Nantgarw (High Level) Halt Line and station closed | Great Western Railway Pontypridd,Caerphilly and Newport Railway | Terminus |
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