Treforest Estate railway station explained

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.

History

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.

Future

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.

Services

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.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hutton, John. The Taff Vale Railway, vol. 1. Silver Link. 2006 . 978-1-85794-249-1 .
  2. Web site: What's Happening in South East Wales | Transport for Wales . 5 June 2018 . 14 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181014031907/http://tfw.gov.wales/whats-happening-south-east-wales . dead .
  3. GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 130 (Network Rail)