Lisvane and Thornhill railway station
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| Location | Lisvane, Cardiff Wales |
| Coordinates | 51°32′40″N 3°11′08″W / 51.5444°N 3.1856°WCoordinates: 51°32′40″N 3°11′08″W / 51.5444°N 3.1856°W |
| Grid reference | ST178834 |
| Managed by | Transport for Wales |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | LVT |
| Classification | DfT category F2 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1986 |
| Passengers | |
| 2016/17 |  0.210 million |
| 2017/18 |  0.216 million |
| 2018/19 | 0.212 million |
| 2019/20 | 0.209 million |
| 2020/21 | 19,928 |
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| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
Lisvane and Thornhill railway station (Welsh: Llys-faen a Draenen Pen-y-Graig) is a railway station serving the Lisvane and Thornhill areas of north Cardiff, Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network.
The station is the replacement for the Cefn Onn Halt railway station, which was closed in 1986.
Services[]
The current daytime service pattern is four trains an hour to Cardiff Queen Street, Cardiff Central, Grangetown, Dingle Road and Penarth, and the opposite direction towards Caerphilly, Ystrad Mynach, Bargoed and Rhymney. Three trains terminate at Bargoed, one train per hour continues to Rhymney.[1] The frequency drops to half-hourly in the evening and to two-hourly on Sundays.
Journey times are approximately:
- 10 minutes to Cardiff Queen Street
- 15 minutes to Cardiff Central
- 33 minutes to Penarth
- 4 minutes to Caerphilly
- 17 minutes to Ystrad Mynach
- 28 minutes to Bargoed
- 46 minutes to Rhymney
Services are operated by Class 150 'Sprinter' units.
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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| Llanishen | Transport for Wales Rhymney Line |
Caerphilly | ||
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Table 130 National Rail timetable, May 2016
External links[]
Media related to Lisvane and Thornhill railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Train times and station information for Lisvane and Thornhill railway station from National Rail
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