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Rhymney Railway The Rhymney Railway was a railway company in South Wales, founded to transport minerals and materials to and from collieries and ironworks in the Rhymney Valley of South Wales, and to docks in Cardiff. It opened a main line in 1858, and a limite ...

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, mapframe=yes , mapframe-zoom = 13 Caerphilly railway station ( cy, Gorsaf reilffordd Caerffili) is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

serving the town of Caerphilly, south

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. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the

Valley Lines Valleys & Cardiff Local Routes ( cy, Llwybrau Lleol y Cymoedd a Chaerdydd) (formerly Valley Lines) is the network of passenger suburban railway services radiating from Cardiff, Wales. It includes lines within the city itself, the Vale of Glam ...

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

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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

. 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 The Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway was built to bring the coal output of the Aberdare and Rhondda valleys directly to Alexandra Docks at Newport. It was a little over in length, running from Pontypridd to a junction near Caerphil ...

*To the east through a tunnel to a junction with the Brecon and Merthyr Railway at

Machen Machen (from Welsh ' "place (of)" + ', a personal name) is a large village three miles east of Caerphilly, south Wales. It is situated in the Caerphilly borough within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It neighbours Bedwas and Trethom ...

, and onwards to

Newport Docks Newport Docks is the collective name for a group of docks in the city of Newport, south-east Wales. By the eighteenth century there were a number of wharves on the west shore of the River Usk; iron and coal were the principal outward traffic. Th ...

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 from 5 September 2008 to 19 September 2008 due to a

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that blocked the line near Llanbradach railway station due to the poor weather conditions. Replacement bus services operated the route between Caerphilly and

Bargoed Bargoed ( cy, Bargod) is a town and community in the Rhymney Valley, Wales, one of the South Wales Valleys. It lies on the Rhymney River in the county borough of Caerphilly. It straddles the ancient boundary of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, wit ...

/ Rhymney. 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 Penarth via and every 15 minutes to

, with one in four running through to Rhymney.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