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In steam days the depot was called Cardiff Canton and its shed code was 86C. It was built in 1882 as the main maintenance base for the South Wales Railway and the major Welsh engineering base for the Great Western Railway (GWR). After nationalisation in 1948 it was a heavy overhaul base for British Railways.
Cardiff Central is also one of the United Kingdom's major railway stations, providing connections to Newport, Bristol, Bath, London, Southampton, Portsmouth, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Birmingham and Nottingham. Cardiff Central continues to serve as a major interchange on the British rail network, with 1,042,297 changes at the station in 08/09.
Having found success, the Cardiff Railway promoted a further bill in the following session, and was authorised as the Cardiff Railway Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. cclxii) on 12 August 1898 to build a railway from Roath Dock to its newly authorised line, joining the Rhymney Railway near the junction. Also proposed in the bill was a new line from ...
Cardiff Canton Sub-shed Cardiff East Dock (1961–1962) CF Was 86C until 1960. Closed to steam 1965 [47] Became 86A [citation needed] 1963–1965 Cardiff East Dock Was 88L until 1963.Closed to steam 1965 [65] 88B 1949–1958 Cardiff East Dock Was a sub-shed of 88A(Cardiff Canton) from 1958 until it became 88L in 1962. [65] 1961–1962 Cardiff ...
Ex-GWR Collett-designed 5600 Class 0-6-2T No.6682 simmers in April 1951, outside the former TVR railway depot at Cathays. Located on the southside of the tracks to the carriage and wagon works, parallel to Colum Road, it was the largest railway depot on the TVR. Opened in 1884, it was equipped with a five-road shed and an attached five-road ...
Subsequent construction by the TVR added links to Cardiff Central and to the Penarth Extension Railway by 1878. Originally the line was freight-only, but over the years saw regular use for empty passenger trains thanks to its links with the depot at Cardiff Canton TMD and also for football specials to Ninian Park stadium and periodic ...
The disused railway station in the St. Fagans area, in the west of the city, could be reopened to bolster transport links for a major Cardiff tourist attraction, under a proposal in March 2010 by former First Minister Rhodri Morgan AM and Cardiff West MP Kevin Brennan, follow predictions that visitor numbers to the National History Museum could ...
Cardiff Central (Welsh: Caerdydd Canolog) is a major station on the South Wales Main Line.It is located in the capital of Wales, Cardiff, 144 miles 77 chains (233 km) down the line from London Paddington, via Bristol Parkway, [1] and 170 miles 30 chains (274 km) measured via Stroud. [2]