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Caerphilly Caerphilly (, ; cy, Caerffili, ) is a town and community in Wales. It is situated at the southern end of the Rhymney Valley. It is north of Cardiff and northwest of Newport. It is the largest town in Caerphilly County Borough, and lies wit ...

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Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

, years1 = 31 March 1858 , events1 = Opened , years2 = 1 April 1871 , events2 = Re-sited , mpassengers = , footnotes = Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road , mapframe=yes , mapframe-zoom = 13 Caerphilly railway station ( cy, Gorsaf reilffordd Caerffili) is a railway station serving the town of

, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network. The station is located at Station Road in the south of the town. Facilities include a small shop and a ticket kiosk. A self-service ticket machine was installed near the entrance to the station on 22 December 2008. Several advertising murals depicting holiday travel in various parts of South Wales have been placed on the northbound side of the station in order to improve the 'look' of the station.

History

The first Caerphilly station was on the now-disappeared Taffs Well to Ystrad line. It opened in 1858 and closed in 1871 when the current railway alignment and station opened. The first station was around 250 metres from the current Aber station but on a completely different alignment. The current station was built in 1871 as part of the Rhymney Railway. It ended up as a four way junction: *To the west at Penrhos junction (on the line from Junction to Walnut Tree Junction) with the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway *To the east through a tunnel to a junction with the

Brecon and Merthyr Railway The Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway (B&MR) was a railway company in Wales. It was originally intended to link the towns in its name. Finding its access to Merthyr difficult at first, it acquired the Rumney Railway, an old plateway, and ...

at Machen, and onwards to Newport Docks As a result of traffic volume, the station was rebuilt in 1913 to four platforms and a west facing bay platform. Caerphilly was the terminus of the Rhymney Line from

Penarth Penarth (, ) is a town and Community (Wales), community in the Vale of Glamorgan ( cy, Bro Morgannwg), Wales, exactly south of Cardiff city centre on the west shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay. Penarth is a weal ...

from 5 September 2008 to 19 September 2008 due to a landslip that blocked the line near

Llanbradach railway station Llanbradach railway station is a railway station serving the village of Llanbradach Llanbradach is a village within the historic boundaries of Glamorgan, South Wales less than north of the town of Caerphilly. It is part of the community of ...

due to the poor weather conditions. Replacement bus services operated the route between Caerphilly and Bargoed/

Rhymney Rhymney (; cy, Rhymni ) is a town and a community in the county borough of Caerphilly, South Wales. It is within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. With the villages of Pontlottyn, Fochriw, Abertysswg, Deri and New Tredegar, Rhymney is ...

. Train services subsequently resumed as normal.

Present form

Caerphilly station geograph-3831208-by-Ben-Brooksbank

With the closure of both junctions and the simplification of the railway to a pure through service as part of the Rhymney Line, the station was rebuilt to a two platform with bus interchange in 1970. The signalling system is currently set up to allow northbound services to terminate in the southbound platform (using a facing crossover) & return directly to Cardiff if required, although this facility is only used during the evenings in the current (May 2013) timetable. The ongoing Valley Lines resignalling scheme will see a new bay platform bought into use at the station for use by terminating trains, which will allow a further increase in service frequencies to/from Cardiff in the future. Plans to develop the station as a transport hub, including a bus interchange, were announced by Caerphilly County Borough Council in October 2022.

Services

Monday to Saturdays there is a train every 15 minutes to

via and every 15 minutes to Bargoed, with one in four running through to

.GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 130 (Network Rail) This decreases to hourly northbound and half-hourly southbound in the evenings, with some trains from Cardiff terminating & starting back from here. On Sundays, there is a two-hourly service each way with southbound trains running to .

References

External links

{{Cardiff, Newport and the Valleys railway stations Railway stations in Caerphilly County Borough DfT Category D stations Former Rhymney Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871 Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail Transport in Caerphilly