Waun-gron Park railway station explained

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.

Services

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.

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.walesrails.co.uk/c.html Wales Rail – Cardiff City Line
  2. GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 130 (Network Rail)