Caerphilly Welsh:Caerffili
Caerphilly railway station in 2019
General information
Location	Caerphilly,Caerphilly Wales
Coordinates	51°34′17″N3°13′07″W / 51.5715°N 3.2186°W /51.5715; -3.2186
Grid reference	ST156865
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	CPH
Classification	DfT category D
History
Original company	Rhymney Railway
Pre-grouping	Rhymney Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
31 March 1858	Opened
1 April 1871	Re-sited
Passengers
2019/20	0.713 million
2020/21	0.119 million
2021/22	0.373 million
2022/23	0.525 million
2023/24	0.569 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Caerphilly railway station (Welsh:Gorsaf reilffordd Caerffili) is arailway station serving the town ofCaerphilly, southWales. It is a stop on theRhymney Line of theValley Lines network. The station is located at Station Road in the south of the town. Facilities include a small shop and a ticket kiosk. A self-serviceticket machine was installed near the entrance to the station on 22 December 2008. Several advertising murals depicting holiday travel in various parts of South Wales have been placed on the northbound side of the station in order to improve the 'look' of the station.^[1]

The first Caerphilly station was on the now-disappeared Taffs Well to Ystrad line. It opened in 1858 and closed in 1871 when the current railway alignment and station opened. The first station was around 250 metres from the currentAber station but on a completely different alignment.

The current station was built in 1871 as part of theRhymney Railway. It ended up as a four way junction:

• To the west at Penrhos junction (on the line fromAber Junction to Walnut Tree Junction) with thePontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway
• To the east through a tunnel to a junction with theBrecon and Merthyr Railway atMachen, and onwards toNewport Docks

As a result of traffic volume, the station was rebuilt in 1913 to four platforms and a west facing bay platform.

Caerphilly was the terminus of theRhymney Line fromPenarth from 5 September 2008 to 19 September 2008 due to alandslip that blocked the line nearLlanbradach railway station due to the poor weather conditions. Replacement bus services operated the route between Caerphilly andBargoed/Rhymney. Train services subsequently resumed as normal.

With the closure of both junctions and the simplification of the railway to a pure through service as part of the Rhymney Line, the station was rebuilt to a two platform with bus interchange in 1970. The signalling system is currently set up to allow northbound services to terminate in the southbound platform (using a facing crossover) & return directly to Cardiff if required, although this facility is only used during the evenings in the current (May 2013) timetable. The ongoing Valley Lines resignalling scheme will see a new bay platform bought into use at the station for use by terminating trains, which will allow a further increase in service frequencies to/from Cardiff in the future.^[2] Plans to develop the station as a transport hub, including a bus interchange, were announced by Caerphilly County Borough Council in October 2022.^[3]

The Monday to Saturday daytime service pattern is six trains an hour southbound toCardiff Central: two continue toPenarth, three toBarry Island and one toBridgend. Northbound four trains an hour run toBargoed with two of those continuing toRhymney. The frequency decreases in the evening.

On Sundays, the service pattern is two trains an hour southbound toCardiff Central andBarry Island, and one an hour northbound toRhymney.^[4]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Lisvane and Thornhill		Transport for Wales Rhymney Line		Aber
	Historical railways
Aber Line and station open		Rhymney Railway Main line		Cefn Onn Halt Line open, station closed
	Disused railways
Terminus		Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway		Gwernydomen Halt Line and station closed
Nantgarw (High Level) Halt Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway		Terminus

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