Merthyr Tydfil railway station

You can reach 23 stations directly from Merthyr Tydfil on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Abercynon, with 125 trains a day.

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Merthyr Tydfil is the nearest station for postcodes in CF48, CF47. Check your own postcode.

Direct trains from Merthyr Tydfil

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Abercynon	125	125	27
Pontypridd	125	125	27
Radyr	125	125	27
Taffs Well	125	125	27
Treforest Estate	125	125	27
Trefforest	125	125	27
Cardiff Central	66	66	27
Cardiff Queen Street	66	66	27
Cathays	66	66	27
Llandaf	66	66	27
Merthyr Vale	66	66	27
Pentre-bach	66	66	27
Quakers Yard	66	66	27
Troed-y-rhiw	66	66	27
Aberdare	59	59	0
Cwmbach	59	59	0
Danescourt	59	59	0
Fernhill	59	59	0
Fairwater	59	59	0
Mountain Ash	59	59	0
Ninian Park	59	59	0
Penrhiwceiber	59	59	0
Waun-gron Park	59	59	0

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How busy Merthyr Tydfil is

412,970 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 968th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff Central than any other pair: 129,504 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

Sunday is a different railway here: 14 stations instead of 23, a drop of about 39%. Saturday runs to 23.

Nearest other stations

Pentre-bach 1.5 miles
Troed-y-rhiw 2.6 miles
Cwmbach 3.4 miles
Aberdare 3.4 miles
Rhymney 3.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

Heolgerrig Halt · 0.8 miles
Abercanaid · 1.3 miles
Dowlais Central · 1.6 miles
Cefn Coed · 1.7 miles
Dowlais Cae Harris · 1.8 miles
Dowlais (High Street) · 2.0 miles

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More about this station on Wikipedia.