Cardiff Queen Street

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Cardiff Queen Street

Station code: CDQ National Rail
Where: Cardiff, Wales
Opened on the Taff Vale Railway.




Chronology Dates

  /10/1840Taff Vale Railway
Cardiff station opened. The station was by the later Cardiff Queen Street's up platform. Freight track continued south to Cardiff Docks.
  /  /1848Taff Vale Railway
Branch opened to Bute West Dock from East Branch Junction (by Cardiff Queen Street).
02/07/1855Rhymney Railway
Act for line from Hengoed to Walnut Tree Junction at Taff's Well on the Taff Vale Railway. Running powers granted from Walnut Tree Junction to Crockherbtown Junction, just north of Cardiff Queen Street. A Rhymney Railway line is authorised from here to Bute East Dock.
  /  /1887Taff Vale Railway
Cardiff station re-built as Cardiff Queen Street and connection opened to the South Wales Railway.
  /  /1928Taff Vale Railway
Cardiff Queen Street is expanded to have five platforms.
15/04/1928Rhymney Railway
Cardiff Parade closed. The station had two platforms and a bay. Trains were diverted to Cardiff Queen Street.
  /  /1970Taff Vale Railway
Cardiff Queen Street cut back to an island platform with a bay.

News items

19/10/2014Cardiff Queen Street railway station to stay closed on international rugby match days [WalesOnline News]