Treforest Estate | |
Native Name: | Welsh: Ystad Trefforest |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Ton-Teg, Rhondda Cynon Taf |
Country: | Wales |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | Transport for Wales |
Platforms: | 2 |
Code: | TRE |
Classification: | DfT category F2 |
Opened: | 5 January 1942 |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
Treforest Estate railway station (also Trefforest Estate, Welsh: Welsh: Ystad Trefforest) is a small railway station in Treforest, near Cardiff, built to serve the workers and visitors of Treforest Industrial Estate. It is located on the Merthyr Line, 14km (09miles) north-west of .
Passenger services are provided by Transport for Wales. The station is built around a central island platform, which is accessible from a subway.
It was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1942.[1]
In the spring of 2016 new shelters were installed on the platform ahead of the South Wales Metro project.
The station is to be relocated by December 2025 as part of the South Wales Metro and has been included in the Wales & Borders franchise.[2] This is to improve safety and convenience.
Mondays to Saturdays, there is a half-hourly service southbound to via, continuing to and via in an alternating fashion.[3] There is a half-hourly service northbound to via . There is no Sunday service.