Cadoxton railway station
Cadoxton 
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| Welsh: Tregatwg | |
Cadoxton railway station in 2008
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| Location | |
| Place | Cadoxton |
| Local authority | Vale of Glamorgan |
| Grid reference | ST132688 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CAD |
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.254 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.273 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.278 million |
| 2014/15 |
 0.269 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.282 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 20 December 1888 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cadoxton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Coordinates: 51°24′44″N 3°14′55″W / 51.4122°N 3.2487°W
Cadoxton railway station is a railway station serving Cadoxton and Palmerstown near Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. It is located on the Barry Branch 6½ miles (10 km) south of Cardiff Central.It continues to the terminus of the Barry Branch at Barry Island but from Barry Junction the line also continues as the Vale of Glamorgan branch to Bridgend via Rhoose for Cardiff International Airport ’bus link and then Llantwit Major.
As at May 2017, passenger services are operated by Arriva Trains Wales as part of the Valley Lines network.
The station here was built & opened by the Barry Railway in December 1888 and just east of the station, the Barry Railway Company's main line from Cadoxton Junction via Wenvoe to Trehafod Junction in the Rhondda Valley ran and was opened in 1889. It was very busy from the outset and later with Biglis Junction a short distance to the north-east, the former Taff Vale Railway's coastal Penarth branch from Cogan Junction joined the Barry Company's Cadoxton-Cogan Junction extension towards what was {{rws| Cardiff General up to 1964, subsequently changed to Cardiff Central. This network thus served the then newly commissioned, rail-served Barry Docks complex. A major yard at Cadoxton North (with 39 sidings) north of Cadoxton South Junction was built in the early 1890s to handle the large numbers of coal trains brought down to the docks for coal export and the community of Cadoxton soon grew substantially to house the railway workers employed there, which in turn led to increasing levels of passenger traffic using the station. The arrival of the Taff Vale Railway's coastal route from Penarth via Lavernock in 1890, the completion of the branch to Barry Island in 1896 and the opening of the Vale of Glamorgan Line two years after that, added even greater volumes of both passengers (mainly holidaymakers to the resort at Barry Island) and goods passing through - by 1910 the docks had surpassed neighbouring Cardiff's as the busiest in South Wales for coal exports and subsequently became the biggest coal export dock (in terms of volume) in the world by 1913.
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