Dinas Powys train station

You can reach 28 stations directly from Dinas Powys on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Barry, with 126 trains a day.

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• 28 direct destinations
• 1,786th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 3 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Dinas Powys

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

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Lines serving Dinas Powys

Dinas Powys is on the Vale of Glamorgan Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Dinas Powys station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Dinas Powys station on 83 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 4 paths on the Wednesday, 35 paths on the Saturday and 23 paths on the Sunday. 28 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 03:00 to 04:00 on the Saturday, with 4 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Dinas Powys station is

94,876 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,786th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Dinas Powys and Cardiff Central than any other pair: 40,714 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

• Eastbrook 0.7 miles
• Cogan 1.7 miles
• Dingle Road 1.8 miles
• Cadoxton 1.8 miles
• Penarth 1.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Dinas Powys, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Sully · 1.6 miles
• Llandough Platform · 1.8 miles
• Alberta Place Halt · 1.9 miles
• Swanbridge · 1.9 miles
• Lower Penarth · 2.0 miles
• Lavernock · 2.1 miles

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Facilities at Dinas Powys station

Dinas Powys is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Cycle parking: 4 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 19 May 2026.

Getting to Dinas Powys station

Dinas Powys station is in Vale of Glamorgan - Bro Morgannwg, Wales, and is run by TfW Rail.

The nearest motorway junction is M4 J33 (Capel Llanilltern), 6.4 miles north-west.

3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Dinas Powys Railway Station.

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

Dinas Powys 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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