Cardiff Bute Road railway station
Cardiff Bay 
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| Welsh: Bae Caerdydd | |
Cardiff Bay railway station
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| Location | |
| Place | Cardiff Bay |
| Local authority | Cardiff |
| Grid reference | ST190748 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CDB |
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.793 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.869 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.019 million |
| 2014/15 |
1.144 million |
| 2015/16 |
1.191 million |
| History | |
| 9 October 1840 | Line opened |
| December 1844 | Station opened as Cardiff Bute Dock |
| 1845 | Renamed Cardiff Docks |
| 1 July 1924 | Renamed Cardiff Bute Road |
| 26 September 1994 | Renamed Cardiff Bay |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cardiff Bay from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Coordinates: 51°28′02″N 3°09′59″W / 51.4671°N 3.1665°W
Cardiff Bay railway station (Welsh: Bae Caerdydd), formerly Cardiff Bute Road, is a station serving the Cardiff Bay and Butetown areas of Cardiff, Wales. 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. The station building remains disused and is boarded up. The station building lies on Bute Street, although the rest of the station remains visible from the 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 Senedd and the Wales Millennium Centre
Passenger services are provided by Arriva Trains Wales.
The line to the docks was opened on 9 October 1840 but the station was not mentioned in Bradshaw's railway timetables until December 1844. It was opened as "Cardiff Bute Dock" but the name was changed to "Cardiff Docks" in 1845 by the Taff Vale Railway (engineer: Isambard Kingdom Brunel). The station building was the head office of the TVR until 1862. After this it also housed the consulates of the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and Brazil, with separate flag poles provided for each nation.
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