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Cardiff Canton was opened in June 1882 as a six road, 240-foot (73 m)-long shed, built to replace Long Dyke, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Cardiff General station. The GWR enlarged the depot in 1897 with a 55 ft (17 m)-diameter turntable installed in a square locomotive shed with 28 roads radiating of off the turntable.
The site today, 15 September 2007. To the left is Colum Drive, marking the site of the earlier demolished Cathays depot. To the right is a Lidl store, a later development on the site of the former carriage and wagon works. Beyond the store is a newly developed student accommodation block
Rail transport in Cardiff has developed to provide connections to many other major cities in the United Kingdom, and to provide an urban rail network for the city and its commuter towns in southeast Wales.
Radyr Motive Power Depot was a traction maintenance depot located in Radyr, Cardiff, Wales. The depot was situated on the Merthyr Line and was near Radyr station . The depot code is RR.
Cardiff (/ ˈ k ɑːr d ɪ f / ⓘ; Welsh: Caerdydd [kairˈdiːð, kaːɨrˈdɨːð] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. Cardiff had a population of 372,089 in 2022 [2] and forms a principal area officially known as the City and County of Cardiff (Welsh: Dinas a Sir Caerdydd). The city is the eleventh largest in the United Kingdom.
In 2023, Grand Union initiated consultation to operate five daily train services connecting Cardiff Central and Edinburgh Waverley, with a possible start in 2025. [21] This followed CrossCountry 's franchise extension in September 2023 to run until 15 October 2027, which included a commitment to reintroduce a daily service between the two ...
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 ...
The area is served by Cathays railway station in the east, with frequent services south to Cardiff Queen Street and Cardiff Central or north to Merthyr Tydfil and Treherbert via Pontypridd. Cardiff Bus provides many services in the area. The following bus services run along North Road (in the west), going to the city centre in the reverse ...