Grangetown railway station is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

serving the Grangetown district of

Cardiff Cardiff (; ) is the capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of Wales. Cardiff had a population of in and forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area officially known as the City and County of Ca ...

, Wales. It is located on the

Vale of Glamorgan Line The Vale of Glamorgan Line () is a commuter railway line in Wales, running through the Vale of Glamorgan from Barry to Bridgend, via Rhoose and Llantwit Major. Route The Barry branch starts at Cardiff West and runs to Barry Island with a ...

1 mile (1.5 km) south west of Cardiff Central towards

Bridgend Bridgend (; or just , meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in the Bridgend County Borough of Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. The town is named after the Old Bridge, Bridgend, medieval bridge over the River Og ...

via Barry,

Penarth Penarth ( , ) is a town and Community (Wales), community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, approximately south of Cardiff city centre on the west shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay. Penarth is a Seaside resort#Brit ...

and

Barry Island Barry Island () is a district, peninsula and seaside resort, forming part of the town of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. It is named after the 6th century Saint Baruc. Barry's stretch of coast, on the Bristol Channel, has the wor ...

. Passenger services are operated by

Transport for Wales Transport for Wales (TfW; ; ) is a not-for-profit company owned by the Welsh Government and managed at arms length by its appointed board. TfW oversees the Transport for Wales Group (TfW Group) consisting of itself and its subsidiaries: Trans ...

as part of the

Valley Lines Valleys & Cardiff Local Routes (formerly Valley Lines) is the urban and suburban rail network radiating from Cardiff, Wales. It includes lines within the city itself, the Vale of Glamorgan and the South Wales Valleys. The services are curre ...

network. The station is reached by steps, so access is not suitable for wheelchair users and would be difficult for people with prams/pushchairs.

History

This station was first opened by the

Taff Vale Railway The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) was a standard gauge railway in South Wales, built by the Taff Vale Railway Company to serve the iron and coal industries around Merthyr Tydfil and to connect them with docks in Cardiff. It was opened in stage ...

in 1882 and rebuilt with an

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

in 1904, though the railway serving it (what is now the City Line) was originally opened in 1859 to serve the nearby

harbour and dock (even though the dock itself was not commissioned until 1865). The extension onwards to & was completed in 1878 and the

Barry Railway The Barry Railway Company was a railway and docks company in South Wales, first incorporated as the ''Barry Dock and Railway Company'' in 1884. It arose out of frustration among Rhondda coal owners at congestion and high charges at Cardiff Doc ...

route to a decade later. The original 1859 freight-only docks branch (latterly known as the Ferry Road branch) left the later route towards Cogan Junction at the station – latterly accessed by means of a ground frame and connected to the 'down' line towards Barry, it remained in regular use until the mid-1980s to serve several oil depots and a scrapyard but has since been closed & lifted.

Services

Grangetown has a very frequent service. The service pattern is as follows: Mondays to Saturdays: *8tph to Cardiff Central and Queen Street, of which: **2tph continue to Coryton **2tph continue to

Caerphilly Caerphilly (, ; , ) is a town and community (Wales), community in Wales. It is situated at the southern end of the Rhymney Valley and separated from the Cardiff suburbs of Lisvane and Rhiwbina by Caerphilly Mountain. It is north of Cardiff an ...

**4tph continue to

Bargoed Bargoed () is a town and community (Wales), community in the Rhymney Valley, Wales, one of the South Wales Valleys. It lies on the Rhymney River in the county borough of Caerphilly (county borough), Caerphilly. It straddles the Historic counties o ...

, of which 2tph continues to

Rhymney Rhymney (; ) is a town and a community (Wales), community in the county borough of Caerphilly (county borough), Caerphilly, South Wales. It is within the Historic counties of Wales, historic boundaries of Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshir ...

*4tph to

*3tph to

*1tph to

The frequency drops somewhat in the evening, with half hourly services to Rhymney and the final Rhymney Line service from Barry Island terminates at

Ystrad Mynach Ystrad Mynach is a town in the Rhymney Valley in the Caerphilly County Borough, within the ancient county of Glamorgan, Wales, and is north of the town of Caerphilly. The urban area had a population of 19,204 in 2011. Before the Industrial Revo ...

. On Sundays, the service pattern decreases to: *1tp2h to Cardiff Central **1tp continues to Cardiff Queen Street **1tp continues to

**1tp continues to

*2tph to

*1tph to

*1tp2h to

References

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{{Transport in Cardiff Railway stations in Cardiff DfT Category F2 stations Former Taff Vale Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1882 Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail Grangetown, Cardiff

History

Services

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