CARDIFF BAY RAILWAY STATION

'Cardiff Bay railway station' () is a station serving the Cardiff Bay and Butetown areas of Cardiff. It is the southern terminus of the Butetown Branch Line 1.5 km (1 mile) south of Cardiff Queen Street.
Only one platform is now in use (with the station building itself effectively abandoned), though the rest of the station remains visible from nearby Lloyd George Avenue. For various reasons, including it being the origin of the first steam-powered passenger train service in Wales, the station is a Grade II
★ listed building.
The station is within walking distance of the National Assembly for Wales and the Wales Millennium Centre
Passenger services are provided by Arriva Trains Wales.

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History

Service

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History

The station was built as "Cardiff Docks" in 1840 by the Taff Vale Railway (engineer: Isambard Kingdom Brunel). It was renamed "Bute Road" by the Great Western Railway in 1924 and given its present name in 1994. The building was restored in the 1980s and served for a time as a railway museum under the auspices of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales and the Butetown Historical Railway Society (which in 1997 relocated its activities to the Vale of Glamorgan Railway)^[1].

Service

There is a shuttle service between Cardiff Queen Street and Cardiff Bay every 15 minutes Monday to Saturdays (between 0630 and 2330) and every 15 minutes on Sundays (between 1100 and 1630).

References

1. The Taff Vale Railway, vol. 1, Hutton, John, , , Silver Link, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85794-249-1

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