Ninian Park train station
You can reach 47 stations directly from Ninian Park on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Abercynon, with 125 trains a day.
Address: Leckwith Road, Cardiff, CF11 8AH
Direct trains from Ninian Park
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abercynon | 125 | 126 | 25 |
| Pontypridd | 125 | 126 | 26 |
| Radyr | 125 | 126 | 26 |
| Taffs Well | 125 | 126 | 26 |
| Treforest Estate | 125 | 126 | 26 |
| Trefforest | 125 | 126 | 26 |
| Cardiff Central | 67 | 67 | 26 |
| Aberdare | 66 | 67 | 25 |
| Cwmbach | 66 | 67 | 25 |
| Danescourt | 66 | 67 | 26 |
| Fernhill | 66 | 67 | 25 |
| Fairwater | 66 | 67 | 26 |
| Mountain Ash | 66 | 67 | 25 |
| Penrhiwceiber | 66 | 67 | 25 |
| Waun-gron Park | 66 | 67 | 26 |
| Cardiff Queen Street | 59 | 59 | 0 |
| Cathays | 59 | 59 | 0 |
| Llandaf | 59 | 59 | 0 |
| Merthyr Tydfil | 59 | 59 | 0 |
| Merthyr Vale | 59 | 59 | 0 |
| Pentre-bach | 59 | 59 | 0 |
| Quakers Yard | 59 | 59 | 0 |
| Troed-y-rhiw | 59 | 59 | 0 |
| Baglan | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bridgend | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Briton Ferry | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Clarbeston Road | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Carmarthen | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Clunderwen | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ferryside | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Gowerton | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Haverfordwest | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Johnston | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kidwelly | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Llansamlet | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Llanelli | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Llanharan | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Milford Haven | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Neath | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Pembrey and Burry Port | 1 | 0 | 0 |
and 7 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Ninian Park
Ninian Park is on the South Wales Main Line and the Cardiff City Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Ninian Park station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Ninian Park station on 433 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 86 paths on the Wednesday, 24 paths on the Saturday and 10 paths on the Sunday. 83 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 05:00 to 06:00 on the Tuesday, with 6 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.
| 00 | 03 | 06 | 09 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sun |
Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Ninian Park station is
156,046 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,531st busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Ninian Park and Cardiff Central than any other pair: 31,596 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: 15 stations instead of 47, a drop of about 68%. Saturday runs to 23.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Ninian Park loses 2 destinations including Milford Haven, Johnston.
Nearest other stations
- Grangetown 0.8 miles
- Cardiff Central 0.9 miles
- Cathays 1.3 miles
- Cardiff Queen Street 1.4 miles
- Waun-gron Park 1.5 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Ninian Park, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Ely Main Line · 1.4 miles
- Cardiff Riverside Branch · 1.5 miles
- Clarence Road · 1.5 miles
- Crwys Road · 1.7 miles
- Gabalfa · 1.7 miles
- Ely Mill · 1.8 miles
Show closed stations on the map
Facilities at Ninian Park station
Ninian Park is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Cycle parking: 10 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 19 May 2026.
Getting to Ninian Park station
Ninian Park station is in Cardiff - Caerdydd, Wales, and is run by TfW Rail.
The nearest motorway junction is M4 J32 (Coryton), 4.0 miles north.
10 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Leckwith Close.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Ninian Park 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
From the Train Map UK shop See everything
