The South Wales Main Line
The South Wales Main Line links 29 stations, with a top line speed of 125 mph.
See the South Wales Main Line on the live map
The map draws the line on its own, names every station along it, and shows the trains running on it right now.
The line in numbers
| Track | about 385 miles, counting every running line |
|---|---|
| Stations | 29 |
| Top line speed | 125 mph |
| Passengers a year | 22.9 million entries and exits across its stations |
No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.
Stations on this line
- Bristol Parkway2.3 million a year
- Patchway94,176 a year
- Pilning294 a year
- Caldicot87,972 a year
- Severn Tunnel Junction212,668 a year
- Newport2.8 million a year
- Cardiff Central12.5 million a year
- Ninian Park156,046 a year
- Pontyclun277,812 a year
- Llanharan125,092 a year
- Pencoed232,302 a year
- Bridgend1.4 million a year
- Pyle104,258 a year
- Port Talbot Parkway612,070 a year
- Baglan35,200 a year
- Neath838,778 a year
- Briton Ferry41,642 a year
- Skewen43,980 a year
- Llansamlet38,484 a year
- Gowerton158,620 a year
- Llanelli392,682 a year
- Pembrey and Burry Port130,610 a year
- Kidwelly34,566 a year
- Ferryside16,476 a year
- Whitland44,580 a year
- Clunderwen22,754 a year
- Clarbeston Road7,670 a year
- Haverfordwest113,300 a year
- Johnston9,062 a year
The busiest station on the line is Cardiff Central, 12.5 million entries and exits a year and 37th busiest in Britain.
Lines it meets
Cardiff City Line, Gloucester to Newport Line, Pembroke & Tenby Railway, Vale of Glamorgan Line.
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.