Dinas Rhondda railway station

Railway station in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales

51°37′03″N 3°26′14″W / 51.6174°N 3.4371°W / 51.6174; -3.4371Grid referenceST005919Managed byTransport for WalesPlatforms2Other informationStation codeDMGClassificationDfT category F1Key dates2 August 1886^[1]opened1 April 1917closedJuly 1919reopenedPassengers2018/19

47,3802019/20

40,1162020/21

5,8602021/22

25,0502022/23

29,452 Location Map

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Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Dinas Rhondda railway station is a railway station serving the Dinas, Penygraig and Trealaw districts of Tonypandy, Wales. It is located on the Rhondda Line.

The station has one platform with one small station shelter and is accessible by a small connector road. There is evidence of a previous platform, which originally served North bound trains to Treherbert, but this was left abandoned after rationalisation in 1982, which saw the removal of the northbound line. Today the platform is heavily overgrown. It has a car park, even though it is one of the smaller stations on the line.

Services

Monday-Saturday, there is a half-hourly service to Cardiff Central southbound and to Treherbert northbound. This drops to hourly in the evenings and two-hourly in each direction on Sundays.^[2] On 20 July 2018, previous franchise operator Arriva Trains Wales announced a trial period of extra Sunday services on the Rhondda Line to Cardiff and Barry Island. This was in response to a survey by Leanne Wood and the success of extra Sunday services on the Merthyr Line and the Rhymney Line.^[3]

The service from this station is currently (summer 2023) suspended, due to major route upgrade work being carried out at multiple locations as part of the Valley Lines electrification scheme. A replacement bus service is in operation from here to Pontypridd and to Treherbert, calling at all local stations until February 2024^[4]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Porth		Transport for Wales Rhondda Line		Tonypandy

References

^ Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 159
^ Table 130 National Rail timetable, May 2016
^ "Extra Sunday services between Treherbert and Barry Island". Archived from the original on 22 July 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
^ South Wales Metro - Changes to train services (TfW)Transport for Wales website; Retrieved 2023-07-11

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