Llanharan train station

You can reach 49 stations directly from Llanharan on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bridgend, with 57 trains a day.

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• 49 direct destinations
• 1,644th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 43 parking spaces
• 8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Llanharan

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

and 9 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Llanharan

Llanharan is on the South Wales Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Llanharan station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Llanharan station on 352 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 65 paths on the Wednesday, 18 paths on the Saturday and 5 paths on the Sunday. 56 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 14:00 to 15:00 on the Monday, with 6 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 21 September 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 Llanharan station is

125,092 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,644th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Llanharan and Cardiff Central than any other pair: 79,182 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.

Sundays

There is no Sunday service from Llanharan. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.

Changing from 24 March 2027

From 24 March 2027, Llanharan gains 5 destinations including Stapleton Road, Filton Abbey Wood, Severn Tunnel Junction, Bristol Parkway, Bristol Temple Meads and loses 2 including Milford Haven, Johnston.

Nearest other stations

• Pontyclun 2.3 miles
• Pencoed 2.7 miles
• Porth 5.4 miles
• Dinas Rhondda 5.5 miles
• Trehafod 5.6 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Llanharry · 1.9 miles
• Coed Ely · 2.4 miles
• Tonyrefail · 3.2 miles
• Cross Inn · 3.4 miles
• Ystradowen · 3.5 miles
• Gilfach Goch · 3.9 miles

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Facilities at Llanharan station

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

Parking at Llanharan station

• Station Car Park 43 spaces, 2 accessible
  free

Cycle parking: 8 spaces (stands).

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

Getting to Llanharan station

Llanharan station is in Rhondda Cynon Taf - Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, and is run by TfW Rail.

The nearest motorway junction is M4 J35 (Pen-coed), 2.8 miles south-west.

8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Llanharan War Memorial.

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

Llanharan 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