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Cardiff Queen Street

Cardiff Queen Street National Rail
Welsh: Caerdydd Heol y Frenhines
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Location
Place Cardiff
Local authority Cardiff
Grid reference ST188765
Operations
Station code CDQ
Managed by Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms 5
DfT category C1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12 Increase 2.489 million
– Interchange  Increase 0.657 million
2012/13 Increase 2.495 million
– Interchange  Increase 0.733 million
2013/14 Decrease 2.463 million
– Interchange  Increase 0.872 million
2014/15 Increase 2.523 million
– Interchange  Increase 0.983 million
2015/16 Increase 2.644 million
– Interchange  Increase 1.019 million
History
9 October 1840 Opened as Crockherbtown
1887 Rebuilt and renamed Cardiff Queen Street
1907 Rebuilt
1973 Rebuilt
2014 Rebuilt
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cardiff Queen Street from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Coordinates: 51°28′55″N 3°10′13″W / 51.4819°N 3.1703°W / 51.4819; -3.1703

Cardiff Queen Street railway station (Welsh: Caerdydd Heol y Frenhines) is a railway station serving the north and east of Central Cardiff, Wales. It is the second busiest railway station in Wales, being located near Queen Street. It is one of 20 stations in the city and two in the city centre, the other being Cardiff Central. The station is staffed at most times, with a ticket office and machines, and a café on platforms 3 and 4. A newsagent is situated opposite the station.

In 2014, a reconstruction of the station was completed in order to reduce bottlenecks, with two extra platforms being put in (a previously existing platform, opposite platform 4, and a new bay platform next to platform 2 for the line to Cardiff Bay), taking the total number of platforms to 5.

A station known as "Crockherbtown" on this site was built in 1840 by the Taff Vale Railway, whose headquarters were also located here. It was rebuilt and given its present name in 1887. Other major rebuildings took place in 1907 and by British Rail in 1973. The latter project saw the station's overall roof removed, the original Taff Vale station frontage demolished & replaced and the western side platform closed, with all through traffic concentrated on the central island. In 2005, the station was fitted with new ticket gates, operational when the station is manned, which allow easier access in both directions. In 2006 LED screens replaced the old information display monitors.


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