I used this station twice...once for my arrival and once for departure…read more It's clean and easy to navigate. The staff are helpful and friendly, and there are plenty of facilities including shops, cafés, and waiting areas. Trains run regularly to lots of destinations, and information boards are clear and up to date. It's a busy station, but everything runs smoothly. Great little station.

The rail is an easy way to travel between Cardiff and London. With a train run by Great Wester…read moreRailway almost every half hour, it is convenient for travellers. The platforms can get really crowded, and there are benches available. There are plenty of staff available to assist to help with the confusion of whether your train will be at the "a" or "b" part of the platform, or will take up the entirety.

Not to be confused with Minion Park Railway Station which is where the devil's minions board…read moretrains. One mile to the west of Cardiff Central Station, you will find this windswept Suburban Station which is basically where are all the Cardiff fans used to get on and off the train, back when they played here. There is much less traffic than there was in the old days, but the new Cardiff City Stadium is only 5 minutes walk away so this is still the station for the team for sure. They were a Premier League team recently (but not right now, thanks Ole Gunnar for that), so it's not as vital as it was then.

This is another one of those slightly windswept and barren local stations around the Cardiff area…read more There is a raised network of rails, so these stations really are open to the elements all throughout the year. But there really is very little reason to ever get on or off at this station unless you're going to a football match in Cardiff City Stadium. If this is the case, then you'll be battling a thousand other fans of football to squeeze onto the platform and, eventually, into the carriages. This area of Cardiff really is only a 10-15 minute walk away from the city centre, so I recommend avoiding this station unless you really don't feel you can walk.

Not to be confused with Strangetown Railway Station…read more.. This is a suburban Cardiff railway station that is wide open and not protected from the elements, and in Wales you really need protection and I don't mean condoms, but that too. It's only a mile from Cardiff Central in the Grangetown part of Cardiff. It's on the line that heads for Barry and Bridgend and so on. You can only get down here using this line, and you can only get down to the platform using steps, so it is definitely not disabled-friendly. It's from the 1800 and isn't one of the better stations around. It's pretty desolate out here but it's good for people that live around here, despite it being in the shadow of a huge factory. I've only been here once but it was fairly recent and it sticks in the memory.

I never really understood Grangetown Railway Station. Its location can probably only be explained…read moreaway by the fact that it was there long before Ikea, because it's such a long way away from where you'd like it to be. It's so frustrating sitting on the train as it just goes straight past all those useful shops and plunges down into the deep dark heart of retail that is Penarth Road. Unless you want a car that is, then it's kind of useful. Grangetown Railway Station is elevated to join up with the track that cut across roads on railway bridges which scream 'It's Brains You Want!' This means that it's open to the Welsh elements, as there is no significant shelter for poor little wet train passengers. In short, Grangetown is a stop only advisable to use if you live in the immediate area. This is not a 'let's get off here, dear, and take a little look around' stop.

Taffs Well station lies between Radyr and Treforest Estate on the Valley's Line. Should you find…read moreyourself waiting idly for a train then at least you have a scenic view of the Garth Mountain. There's parking so good for park and ride into Cardiff centre (they've recently built another little car park across the road). You can access the station either from the car park on the east side or from Taffs Well village on the west by walking up the alleyway by John Mills the newsagents. There's a ticket man or lady there from about 7.30 to 9.30 weekday mornings, or you can buy a ticket on the train, mostly. Sometimes you end up in the unpaid fares queue at Cardiff Central if the conductor never turns up. There's live departure and arrival boards at the station or on the website.

Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. But at least you can see the Trefforest, the…read morerailway station that is. This is a little station in a little village which is 18 miles to the northwest of the city center of Cardiff. It's close to the campus of University of South Wales, so it is very much a student station, and is little and useful and definitely efficient. They adapted the spelling to change it to the Welsh spelling in 1980, which makes total sense and I agree with it. It has bilingual signage which is pretty awesome. All in all, it's a good one, I've been to about 100 stations across Wales in recent years and this is one of the better ones.

Not a huge fan of this train station to be honest. It does the job and isn't downright horrible,…read morebut without a doubt dated and in need of a good scrub. ~ Location: Treforest in general is a really beautiful and scenic location with plenty of lovely greenery, which the train station is surrounded by. Unfortunately, there's not much nearby besides the university and a few local pubs. ~ Atmosphere: Where Trefforest Railway Station falls short, for me. Like I mentioned, it's very dated. The station itself is extremely tiny with a small ticketing office and that's pretty much it. It's very dirty as well seeing as how it's constantly filled with university students coming and going, but very little maintenance to keep up with cleanliness or appearances. There are 2 platforms at this station, with a walkway going over the tracks to connect the 2. ~ Customer Service: Because there's about 1 staff member at this station (at the ticketing booth), if the booth is closed I really hope you know how to manage which train to catch. Personally though, I've never actually gone to the ticketing booth to comment on the helpfulness of the staff. ~ Service Frequency: From what I can tell, trains coming to and from Trefforest Railway Station isn't too rare. However, one thing that I dislike are that the trains on this route are always the crappy, tiny old ones. I guess you have to use dated trains to match the dated railway station. Also, the tracks are a bit too close for comfort as with every passing train, it's absolutely terrifying loud (more than normal on most routes) and you feel like you've just been barely grazed. When a freight train came around, I'm ashamed to say that I jumped a bit. --- Overall, Trefforest Railway Station definitely does its job in providing service to and from Trefforest. There's enough trains coming through that you shouldn't have to wait too long before your next one but it's really truly in dire need of some TLC.

A small station with a fast main line service to London and the west of England. It has trains to…read moreWeymouth and Bristol so is an interchange. There is a ticket office and excellent toutist information is displayed in the waiting room.There is a coffee kiosk and taxis ard available here. It serves a wide area of south Somerset and there is a car park.

Five stars for the cafe; two stars for the station. The chef in the cafe was charming, friendly and…read moresang while crafting my sausage and egg bap. Was boiling over with laughter, loved his friendliness. The train station is closed on the weekends for rail work, which means it takes twice as long to get anywhere on the bus. Purchased the bus tickets from the train staff inside, who kept directing a group of us to talk to the bus coordinator, and the bus coordinator was not available/missing...poor show!

Arthur Conan Doyle's autobiography will be known as "Arth", and I've been asked to write it, so…read moreI've agreed, in principle, to Pen Arth. So people say it's a separate town that's independent and self-sustaining, but honestly it's really just a suburb of Cardiff named Penarth which is only three miles from Cardiff Central station which kind of proves my suburb point. Anyway, it's a cute little station in the middle of the Suburban town and has regular stations going up to Cardiff. One of the problems is that the car park here is for drop off and pick up purposes only. Also the hours for the ticket office are extremely limited, closing at 2 or 3 in the afternoon, worse even at other times, but still. It makes the station pretty tricky to work with, and difficult. I give it the extra star just because it's got some cheap houses here, but it is pretty run down like the other stations.

Penarth Railway Station is, I've always thought, exceptionally small considering the area it's…read morebringing people to. Penarth is hardly a busy and bustling city station, like Cardiff. This railway station has but one platform, and is the end of the line (at least there's never any confusion). Services run to Tredegar and Bargoed only, but all trains pass through Cardiff Central and Cardiff Queen Street. Trains leave every 15 mins during the day, 30 mins at night until 11pm. Can you tell I use this station a lot? Although it is sometimes staffed (weekdays until 2.30pm), most of the time the main building is closed and passengers have to leave and enter the station platforms via a side gate. This station is small, but functional. At least you'll never be stuck waiting there for too long.