Ystrad Rhondda railway station

Coordinates: 51°38′37″N 3°28′00″W / 51.6436°N 3.4668°W / 51.6436; -3.4668

Ystrad Rhondda National Rail

Ystrad Station in August 2008
Location
Place Ystrad
Local authority Rhondda Cynon Taf
Grid reference SS986948
Operations
Station code YSR
Managed by Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05   49,335
2005/06 Decrease 42,400
2006/07 Increase 49,434
2007/08 Increase 72,507
2008/09 Increase 79,448
2009/10 Increase 89,868
2010/11 Decrease 71,720
2011/12 Increase 75,306
2012/13 Decrease 65,808
2013/14 Decrease 52,098
2014/15 Decrease 50,992
History
Key dates Opened 1986 (1986)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ystrad Rhondda from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Ystrad Rhondda railway station is a railway station serving Ystrad in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is located on the Rhondda Line.

There is a dedicated rail linc bus that links with the train. It is only available to rail passengers and operates to Penrhys, Tylorstown, Ferndale and Maerdy.

It was first opened on this site by British Rail on the former Taff Vale Railway in 1986[1] and is the location of the only passing loop on the section of route north of Porth, which had previously been singled by British Rail in stages between 1972 and 1981. The loop points though work automatically, with the token machines for the two single line sections operated by the train crew under the remote supervision of the signalling centre at Radyr.

Alphabetically, it is the last station in the UK.

Services

Monday-Saturday, there is a half-hourly service to Pontypridd & Cardiff Central southbound and to Treherbert northbound. There is a two hourly service in each direction on Sundays, with through trains southbound to Barry Island.[2]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Llwynypia   Arriva Trains Wales
Rhondda Line
   Ton Pentre

References

  1. ↑ Hutton, John (2006). The Taff Vale Railway, vol. 2. Silver Link. ISBN 978-1-85794-250-7.
  2. ↑ GB eNRT 2015-16, Edition, Table 130
View from a DMU going up the Rhondda Valley in 1962


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 4/23/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.