Cardiff Central
Location type
Major stationNames and dates
Cardiff (1850-1922)Cardiff General (1922-1968)
Cardiff Central (1968-)
Station code: CDF National Rail
Where: Cardiff, Wales
Opened on the South Wales Railway.
Chronology Dates
| / /1867 | Taff Bargoed Joint Line (Great Western Railway and Rhymney Railway) Agreement to build line from Nelson to Dowlais for hauling iron ore from Cardiff to the Dowlais Iron Works. |
| 02/10/1871 | Rhymney and Nantybwch Joint Line (London and North Western Railway, South Wales and Rhymney Railway) Joint line from Rhymney to Nantybwch opened to public traffic. The London and North Western Railway diverts all of its Cardiff bound traffic to the Rhymney Railway route. |
| / /1887 | Taff Vale Railway Cardiff station re-built as Cardiff Queen Street and connection opened to the South Wales Railway. |
| / /1896 | South Wales Railway, Taff Vale Railway Bute Street Junction between the lines closed on opening of new fly-over east of Cardiff General. |
| 20/11/1967 | Caerphilly Branch (Brecon and Merthyr Railway) 'Down' section closed, traffic diverted via Penrhos, Walnut Tree, Radyr and Cardiff. |
News items
Books
 A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: South Wales v. 12 (Regional railway history series) |
