Llanishen railway station

Llanishen railway station (Welsh: Llanisien) is a railway station serving the areas of Llanishen and Lisvane in Cardiff, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network.

See also: Rail transport in Cardiff

Llanishen
Welsh: Llanisien
Location
Place	Llanishen
Local authority	Cardiff
Coordinates	51°31′58″N 3°10′54″W
Grid reference	ST181821
Operations
Station code	LLS
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.238 million
2015/16	0.251 million
2016/17	0.267 million
2017/18	0.270 million
2018/19	0.272 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1871 (1871)
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Llanishen from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Services

The station has a basic weekday service of 4 departures each way per hour – northbound to Bargoed (with hourly extensions to Rhymney) and southbound to Cardiff Central and Penarth. This drops to half-hourly in the evenings and to two-hourly on Sundays (southbound trains run to Barry Island instead of Penarth)[1]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Heath High Level		Transport for Wales Rhymney Line		Lisvane and Thornhill

See also

• List of railway stations in Cardiff

Notes

1. Table 130 National Rail timetable, May 2016

External links

• Train times and station information for Llanishen railway station from National Rail