Cardiff Queen Street train station

You can reach 69 stations directly from Cardiff Queen Street on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Cardiff Central, with 375 trains a day.

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• 69 direct destinations
• 286th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 21 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Cardiff Queen Street

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 29 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Cardiff Queen Street

Cardiff Queen Street is on the Valley Lines. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Cardiff Queen Street station, hour by hour

No freight is booked through or alongside Cardiff Queen Street station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.

How busy Cardiff Queen Street station is

2,010,584 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 286th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 630,758 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Cardiff Queen Street and Cardiff Bay than any other pair: 238,714 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Nearest other stations

• Cardiff Central 0.6 miles
• Cathays 0.6 miles
• Cardiff Bay 1.0 miles
• Grangetown 1.3 miles
• Ninian Park 1.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Cardiff Queen Street, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Roath · 0.7 miles
• Crwys Road · 0.9 miles
• Cardiff Riverside Branch · 1.2 miles
• Clarence Road · 1.2 miles
• Gabalfa · 1.9 miles
• Llandough Platform · 2.4 miles

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Facilities at Cardiff Queen Street station

Cardiff Queen Street is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday: 06:00 to 22:00 · Sunday: 07:00 to 19:00

Toilets · WiFi

Cycle parking: 36 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 7 September 2026.

Getting to Cardiff Queen Street station

Cardiff Queen Street station is in Cardiff - Caerdydd, Wales, and is run by TfW Rail.

The nearest motorway junction is A48(M) J29A (St. Mellons), 4.3 miles north-east.

21 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Queen Street Station HZ.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Cardiff Queen Street station elsewhere

• National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
• Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
• Wikipedia the station's history
• OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from

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