Cardiff Queen Street
Location type
StationName and dates
Cardiff Queen StreetStation code: CDQ National Rail
Where: Cardiff, Wales
Opened on the Taff Vale Railway.
Chronology Dates
| /10/1840 | Taff Vale Railway Cardiff station opened. The station was by the later Cardiff Queen Street's up platform. Freight track continued south to Cardiff Docks. |
| / /1848 | Taff Vale Railway Branch opened to Bute West Dock from East Branch Junction (by Cardiff Queen Street). |
| 02/07/1855 | Rhymney Railway Act for line from Hengoed to Walnut Tree Junction at Taff's Well on the Taff Vale Railway. Running powers granted from Walnut Tree Junction to Crockherbtown Junction, just north of Cardiff Queen Street. A Rhymney Railway line is authorised from here to Bute East Dock. |
| / /1887 | Taff Vale Railway Cardiff station re-built as Cardiff Queen Street and connection opened to the South Wales Railway. |
| / /1928 | Taff Vale Railway Cardiff Queen Street is expanded to have five platforms. |
| 15/04/1928 | Rhymney Railway Cardiff Parade closed. The station had two platforms and a bay. Trains were diverted to Cardiff Queen Street. |
| / /1970 | Taff Vale Railway Cardiff Queen Street cut back to an island platform with a bay. |
News items
| 19/10/2014 | Cardiff Queen Street railway station to stay closed on international rugby match days [WalesOnline News] |
