Cardiff Parkway Station: Work To Start In 2020
The title of this post, is the same as that as this article on the BBC.
This is the first two paragraphs.
Work to build a new £30m railway station on the outskirts of Cardiff is expected to start in 2020, after receiving Welsh Government backing.
The station in St Mellons will serve up to 32,000 residents, linking them to Swansea, Cardiff, London, Bristol and Birmingham and the South Wales Metro.
Cardiff Parkway station will be between Cardiff Central and Newport stations and it will be close to the existing St. Mellons Business Park.
It is planned to open in 2022.
Nothing is said about services at the station, but there currently appears to be about six trains per hour (tph) between Cardiff Central and Newport, serving places like Birmingham, London, Manchester and Nottingham, in addition to places in South Wales.
Many if not all, of the trains calling at the station, when it opens will be modern trains, designed to execute fast station stops, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see a frequency of at least six tph between the new station and both Cardiff Central and Newport stations.
- Two tph – Cardiff and London Paddington
- Two tph – Cardiff and Ebbw Vale Town
- One tph – Cardiff and Nottingham
- One tph – Cardiff and Manchester
This looks to me to be the sort of station development that should be copied elsewhere in the country.
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