Cardiff Bay railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Cardiff Bay
other_name= Bae Caerdydd
code = CDB

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caption = Cardiff Bay railway station
manager = Arriva Trains Wales
locale = Cardiff Bay
borough = Cardiff
usage0405 = 0.246
usage0506 = 0.274
usage0607 = 0.404
platforms = 1
years = 1840
events = Built

Cardiff Bay railway station ( _cy. gorsaf trennau Bae Caerdydd) is a station serving the Cardiff Bay and Butetown areas of Cardiff. It is the southern terminus of the Butetown Branch Line 1 mile (1.5 km) south of Cardiff Queen Street.

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.

History

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 in 1997 relocated its activities to the Vale of Glamorgan Railway) [cite book|author=Hutton, John|title=The Taff Vale Railway, vol. 1|publisher=Silver Link|year=2006 ISBN 978-1-85794-249-1] .

ervice

There is a shuttle service between Cardiff Queen Street and Cardiff Bay every 15 minutes Monday to Saturdays (between 0630 and 2330) and every 15 minutes on Sundays (between 1100 and 1630). It is currently operated by a Class 121 "bubble car", built in 1960, although other stock occasionally deputises.

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