Dinas Rhondda railway station explained

Dinas Rhondda
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Dinas Rhondda, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Country:Wales
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:Transport for Wales
Platforms:2
Code:DMG
Classification:DfT category F1
Years1:2 August 1886[1]
Events1:opened
Years2:1 April 1917
Events2:closed
Years3:July 1919
Events3:reopened
Years4:December 2023
Events4:closed for South Wales Metro upgrades
Years5:February 2024
Events5:reopened with upgrades complete
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:13

Dinas Rhondda railway station is a railway station serving the Dinas, Penygraig and Trealaw districts of Tonypandy, Wales. It is located on the Rhondda Line.

The station has one platform with one small station shelter and is accessible by a small connector road. There is evidence of a previous platform, which originally served North bound trains to Treherbert, but this was left abandoned after rationalisation in 1982, which saw the removal of the northbound line. Today the platform is heavily overgrown. It has a car park, even though it is one of the smaller stations on the line.

Services

Monday-Saturday, there is a half-hourly service to southbound and to northbound. This drops to hourly in the evenings and two-hourly in each direction on Sundays. On 20 July 2018, previous franchise operator Arriva Trains Wales announced a trial period of extra Sunday services on the Rhondda Line to Cardiff and Barry Island. This was in response to a survey by Leanne Wood and the success of extra Sunday services on the Merthyr Line and the Rhymney Line.[2]

The service from this station is currently (summer 2023) suspended, due to major route upgrade work being carried out at multiple locations as part of the Valley Lines electrification scheme. A replacement bus service is in operation from here to Pontypridd and to Treherbert, calling at all local stations until February 2024[3]

Notes and References

  1. Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 159
  2. Web site: Extra Sunday services between Treherbert and Barry Island . 19 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180722125917/https://arrivatrainswales-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/extra-sunday-services-between-treherbert-and-barry-island-for-the-summer . 22 July 2018 . dead .
  3. https://tfw.wales/projects/metro/service-changes South Wales Metro - Changes to train services (TfW)