Waun-gron Park railway station

Waun-gron Park railway station serves the Fairwater area of Cardiff, Wales. Passenger services are currently operated by Transport for Wales.

Waun-gron Park
Welsh: Parc Waun-gron
Location
PlaceFairwater
Local authorityCardiff
Coordinates51°29′18″N 3°13′47″W
Grid referenceST147772
Operations
Station codeWNG
Managed byTransport for Wales
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 71,056
2015/16 78,000
2016/17 88,652
2017/18 96,760
2018/19 95,164
History
Key datesOpened 1987 (1987)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Waun-gron Park from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station was opened in 1987 when a passenger service was introduced to the City Line, though the line itself opened in 1859 and was originally goods only. The station has an unusual staggered platform arrangement, one platform straddles the bridge over the roadway.[1]

Waun-gron Park is the nearest station to the large suburb of Ely which is 10 minutes' walk from the station along Western Avenue and over Ely Bridge.

Services

The Monday to Friday off-peak service is two trains per hour each way. Eastbound to Cardiff Central, Cardiff Queen Street, and then Coryton, and westbound to Radyr.[2]

Journey times from Waun-gron Park are eight minutes to Cardiff Central, 11 minutes to Radyr and 28 minutes to Coryton.

There is no Sunday service, although some trains running to destinations such as Merthyr Tydfil, Aberdare and Treherbert from Cardiff Central sometimes pass Waun-gron Park on the City Line when the usual line for these services through Cardiff Queen Street is closed for engineering work.

Freight trains also regularly pass, on all days.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Ninian Park   Transport for Wales
Cardiff City Line
   Fairwater

See also

References
  1. Wales Rail – Cardiff City Line www.walesrail.co.uk; Retrieved 12 September 2013
  2. GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 130 (Network Rail)
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