Taffs Well railway station
Taffs Well 
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| Welsh: Ffynnon Taf | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Taff's Well |
| Local authority | Rhondda Cynon Taf |
| Grid reference | ST124832 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | TAF |
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.312 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.314 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.324 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.338 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.344 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 9 October 1840 |
| 22 June 1863 | relocated and named as Walnut Tree Junction |
| 1 June 1886 | renamed Walnut Tree Bridge |
| 16 March 1900 | renamed Taffs Well |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Taffs Well from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Coordinates: 51°32′27″N 3°15′49″W / 51.5409°N 3.2635°W
Taffs Well railway station is a railway station serving the village of Taff's Well, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, as well as neighbouring Gwaelod-y-Garth, Cardiff. It is located on the Merthyr Line and the Rhondda Line. Passenger services are provided by Arriva Trains Wales.
The station was first opened on this site by the Taff Vale Railway in 1863.
Two routes formerly diverged from the TVR's main line between Cardiff & Merthyr here - the Rhymney Railway's original main line northwards to Bargoed and Rhymney via Aber Junction (opened in 1858) and a much more recent spur to Nantgarw Colliery opened by British Railways in 1952 to permit the closure of most of the surviving Cardiff Railway route beyond Coryton. The Rhymney line, which diverged at Walnut Tree Junction just south of the station was known locally as the Big Hill, due to its severe gradients (as steep as 1 in 48) for northbound trains. Increasing congestion on the 'main line' south of here led to the Rhymney company opening its own direct line via Caerphilly in 1871, but after the 1923 Grouping the Great Western Railway (and later BR) made extensive use of the line for its coal trains from the many collieries in the Rhymney Valley to the marshalling yards at Radyr. Both this line and the Nantgarw colliery spur are now closed and lifted - the last train down the Big Hill ran in June 1982, whilst the latter branch was finally taken out of use in 1991 after the demise of the colliery and nearby coking works some five years earlier.
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