Whitchurch 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 Whitchurch,

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, Wales. It is located on the

Coryton Line The Coryton Line is an Urban rail in the United Kingdom, urban rail line in Cardiff that starts from the Cardiff city centre, city centre to Heath, Cardiff, Heath, Birchgrove, Cardiff, Birchgrove, Rhiwbina, Whitchurch, Cardiff, Whitchurch and C ...

north of Cardiff Central and is situated beneath the

A470 road The A470 (also named the Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road) is a trunk road in Wales. It is the country's longest road at and links the capital Cardiff on the south coast to Llandudno on the north coast. While previously one had to navigate th ...

. Passenger services are provided by

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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.

History

It was opened by the

Cardiff Railway From 1839, the trustees of the John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, Marquis of Bute, operated a large dock operation in Cardiff, the "Bute Docks". This was very successful, but was overwhelmed by the huge volume of coal exported through ...

in 1911. Until the 1960s Whitchurch station had 2 platforms (up and down lines) plus a goods platform, a goods shed and yard, booking office, footbridge, and a staff of at least 2 including George the porter. There was also a signal box at the eastern end of the platform In March 2025, the BBC included the station in a list of "Britain's 10 worst performing stations by percentage of cancelled trains".

Service

Monday to Saturday, there is a half-hourly service southbound to Cardiff Central and onwards to

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and to Coryton northbound with a service running in the nights Coryton-

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via Vale Of Glamorgan. There is no Sunday service.

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* {{Transport in Cardiff Railway stations in Cardiff DfT Category F2 stations Former Cardiff Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1911 Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail Whitchurch, Cardiff

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