Waun-gron Park | |
Native Name: | Welsh: Parc Waun-gron |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Fairwater, Cardiff |
Country: | Wales |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | Transport for Wales |
Platforms: | 2 |
Code: | WNG |
Classification: | DfT category F2 |
Opened: | 1987 |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
Waun-gron Park railway station serves the Fairwater area of Cardiff, Wales. Passenger services are currently operated by Transport for Wales.
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.
The Monday to Friday off-peak service is two trains per hour each way. Eastbound to,, and then, and westbound to .[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, and from Cardiff Central sometimes pass Waun-gron Park on the City Line when the usual line for these services through is closed for engineering work.