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.
Grayling Sets An Excellent Precedent
This article on the BBC is entitled St Mellons Private Rail Station Welcomed By Chris Grayling.
This is said.
A proposal to create Wales’ first privately-owned railway station has been welcomed by UK Transport Secretary Chris Grayling.
He told MPs he was very happy to see plans for St Mellons Parkway in east Cardiff go ahead.
Cardiff South and Penarth MP Stephen Doughty said south Wales needed new stations to make the most out of rail electrification.
The new station has been provisionally named Cardiff Parkway.
Mr Doughty said the proposals to build the station in east Cardiff were “backed by the private sector, backed cross party, backed by the Welsh Government, backed by Cardiff council”
Chris Grayling said he was happy to see it go ahead and that as it was privately-funded, it didn’t need the same form of public funding.
At the present time, there is only one privately-funded station; Southend Airport.
There is also this article on Wales Online, which is entitled There could be 12 new railway stations built in Wales.
Builders are going to be busy!
The Anonymous Widower 