Disused railway lines and closed stations in Cardiff

32 miles of disused railway
14 closed stations
20 stations open today
10 named lost lines

Cardiff has 32 miles of disused railway and 14 closed stations, against 20 stations still open today. That is 0.7 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the Llantrisant No. 1 Branch, with 5.3 miles of its route inside Cardiff.

See Cardiff’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 32 miles of lost railway in Cardiff break down as 18 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 10 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 3.3 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Cardiff

10 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Cardiff; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Llantrisant No. 1 Branch	5.3
Penrhos Branch	3.9
Roath Branch	3.8
Cadoxton and Trehafod Line	2.1
Cardiff Railway Company	1.8
Bute Dock Branch	1.1
Roath Dock Branch	0.9
South Wales Main Line	0.9
Dock Storage South Junction to Kings Junction	0.4
Llandaff Loop	0.4

Closed railway stations in Cardiff

All 14 closed and former stations in Cardiff, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Cardiff

20 stations in Cardiff still have a train service. The busiest are Cardiff Central (12.5 million a year), Cardiff Queen Street (2.0 million a year), Cathays (933,746 a year), Cardiff Bay (755,714 a year) and Radyr (450,356 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Vale of Glamorgan, Newport, Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Somerset and Monmouthshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s principal area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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