Cardiff Bay railway station

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Cardiff Bay
Bae Caerdydd
Location
Place	Cardiff Bay
Local authority	Cardiff
Operations
Station code	CDB
Managed by	Arriva Trains Wales
Platforms in use	1
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Passenger Usage
2004/05 **	0.246 million
History
1840	Built
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Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cardiff Bay (source)   * 2002/03 Disclaimer  ** 2004/05 Disclaimer
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Cardiff Bay railway station (Welsh: Bae Caerdydd) is a station serving the Cardiff Bay and Butetown areas of Cardiff. It is the southern terminus of the Butetown Branch Line. Only one platform is now in use (with the station building itself effectively abandoned), though the rest of the station remains visible from nearby Lloyd George Avenue. For various reasons, including it being the origin of the first steam-powered passenger train service in Wales, the station is a Grade II* listed building.

The station is within walking distance of the National Assembly for Wales and the Wales Millennium Centre

Passenger services are provided by Arriva Trains Wales.

The station was built as "Cardiff Docks" in 1840 by the Taff Vale Railway (engineer: Isambard Kingdom Brunel). It was renamed "Bute Road" by the Great Western Railway in 1924 and given its present name in 1994. The building was restored in the 1980s and served for a time as a railway museum under the auspices of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales and the Butetown Historical Railway Society (which subsequently relocated its activities to the Vale of Glamorgan Railway)^[1].

[edit] References

1. ^ Hutton, John (2006). The Taff Vale Railway, vol. 1. Silver Link.  ISBN 978-1-85794-249-1

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Cardiff Bay railway station from National Rail
• Map and aerial photo of Cardiff Bay railway station from Multimap.com

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Terminus		Arriva Trains Wales Butetown Branch		Cardiff Queen Street

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