Place Cardiff Bay Station code CDB DfT category F1 Opened 1840 | Grid reference ST190748 Managed by Arriva Trains Wales 2011/12 0.793 million Number of platforms 1 | |
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Address Cardiff CF10 4DD, United Kingdom Similar Cardiff Queen Street rail, Cathays railway station, Ninian Park railway st, Cardiff Central railway st, Techniquest | ||
Cardiff bay railway station
Cardiff Bay railway station (Welsh: Bae Caerdydd), formerly Cardiff Bute Road, is a station serving the Cardiff Bay and Butetown areas of Cardiff, Wales. It is the southern terminus of the Butetown Branch Line 1 mile (1.5 km) south of Cardiff Queen Street.
Contents
- Cardiff bay railway station
- Class 153 dmu departs cardiff bay railway station
- History
- Services
- References
Only one platform is now in use. The station building remains disused and is boarded up. The station building lies on Bute Street, although the rest of the station remains visible from the 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 Senedd and the Wales Millennium Centre
Passenger services are provided by Arriva Trains Wales.
Class 153 dmu departs cardiff bay railway station
History
The line to the docks was opened on 9 October 1840 but the station was not mentioned in Bradshaw's railway timetables until December 1844. It was opened as "Cardiff Bute Dock" but the name was changed to "Cardiff Docks" in 1845 by the Taff Vale Railway (engineer: Isambard Kingdom Brunel). The station building was the head office of the TVR until 1862. After this it also housed the consulates of the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and Brazil, with separate flag poles provided for each nation.
It was renamed "Cardiff Bute Road" by the Great Western Railway on 1 July 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).
Services
There is a shuttle service between Cardiff Queen Street and Cardiff Bay every 12 minutes Monday to Saturdays (between 0630 and 2330) and every 12 minutes on Sundays (between 1100 and 1630). The service was formerly operated by a Class 121 "bubble car", but this was withdrawn in June 2013.