Grangetown train station

You can reach 36 stations directly from Grangetown on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Cardiff Central, with 248 trains a day.

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• 36 direct destinations
• 1,237th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• 9 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Grangetown

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

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Lines serving Grangetown

Grangetown 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 Grangetown station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Grangetown 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 17:00 to 18:00 on the Sunday, with 5 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 Grangetown station is

258,616 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,237th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 8,399 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Grangetown and Cardiff Central than any other pair: 40,750 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 0.7 miles
• Ninian Park 0.8 miles
• Cardiff Bay 1.0 miles
• Cardiff Queen Street 1.3 miles
• Cogan 1.5 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Cardiff Riverside Branch · 0.8 miles
• Clarence Road · 0.8 miles
• Llandough Platform · 1.1 miles
• Roath · 2.0 miles
• Crwys Road · 2.0 miles
• Ely Main Line · 2.2 miles

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Facilities at Grangetown station

Grangetown is unstaffed, with step-free access to no part of the station.

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

Getting to Grangetown station

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

The nearest motorway junction is M4 J32 (Coryton), 4.7 miles north.

9 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Stockland Street.

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

Grangetown 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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