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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
Swiss Bridge at Cardiff Castle (demolished 1963) Tram depot, Ely; Wood Street Congregational Chapel (replaced by Southgate House) [6] Cardiff power stations (demolished about 1970) The Victorian Queen Street railway station (replaced by the 1973 station) Capitol Theatre; Wales National Ice Rink; Allders Department Store, former Mackross store ...
The scheme proposed a £200 million investment in a Cardiff cross-rail scheme based on trams, between St Mellons in the east via Cardiff Central, south into Cardiff Bay, north to Coryton, converting a number of Valley Lines heavy rail routes to light rail, and a new route north-west via Ely and Radyr Court to the M4 motorway near Creigiau. [7]
June 2024 also saw the introduction of a hourly Sunday service with Aberdare services starting at Cardiff Central. Pre June 2024 city line services ran from Radyr to Coryton but these have been replaced by a Coryton to Penarth service. Transport for Wales currently operates the line as part of the former Valley Lines network.
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).
Cardiff city centre (Welsh: Canol Dinas Caerdydd) is the city centre and central business district of Cardiff, Wales. The area is tightly bound by the River Taff to the west, the Civic Centre to the north and railway lines and two railway stations – Central and Queen Street – to the south and east respectively. Cardiff became a city in 1905.
Electricity was supplied from the Cardiff power station at Roath adjacent to the tram depot. [5] In 1904, more than 23 million passengers had been carried in that year, up from 18 million the previous year. [2] and when Cardiff became a city in 1905, 131 electric trams were operating on the network, mainly focusing on the busy Cardiff Docks. [6]