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Rogerstone railway station ( cy, Tŷ-du) is a station on the

Ebbw Valley Railway The Ebbw Valley Railway ( cy, Rheilffordd Cwm Ebwy) is a branch line of the South Wales Main Line in South Wales. Transport for Wales Rail provides an hourly passenger service each way between Ebbw Vale Town and Cardiff Central, and an hou ...

in the community of Rogerstone in Newport, south

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. The station is situated ½ mile north of the original station on the site of former rail sidings. The station is within the ''Afon Village'' housing development. Access to the single-platform station and associated car park is off Lily Way. The station opened on 6 February 2008 when services between Cardiff Central and Ebbw Vale Parkway commenced, with trains being operated by

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. On 17 May 2015, a new northern terminus was opened at

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. In 2018,

took over running of the services. On 13 December 2021, a direct service to

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was added, suspended in January 2022 because of staff shortages caused by the

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and reinstated in May 2022.

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays, there are four trains an hour, alternating between and and and services. On Sundays, the hourly Cardiff to Ebbw Vale service runs via Newport. The journey time to Newport is 14 minutes, Cardiff Central is 25 to 30 minutes, and it is around 35 minutes to Ebbw Vale. A subsidised

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bus operated between the station and Newport city centre via Celtic Springs, Cleppa Park,

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and the

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, from the reopening of the Ebbw Valley Railway, but was withdrawn in May 2008 due to low usage. In November 2011, the

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announced that it would be reinstated on a trial basis for a year.

References

External links

Planning Approval Granted for New Railway StationArchive of Ebbw Valley Railway Scheme website
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, 2008) {{Cardiff, Newport and the Valleys railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2008 Railway stations opened by Network Rail DfT Category F2 stations Railway stations in Newport, Wales Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail

Services

See also

References

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