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| General information | |||||
| Location | Fairwater,Cardiff Wales | ||||
| Coordinates | 51°29′18″N3°13′47″W / 51.4882°N 3.2296°W /51.4882; -3.2296 | ||||
| Grid reference | ST147772 | ||||
| Managed by | Transport for Wales | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | WNG | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1987 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  93,924 | ||||
| 2020/21 | 7,896 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  35,524 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 52,768 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 66,070 | ||||
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Waun-gron Park railway station serves the Fairwater area ofCardiff, Wales. Passenger services are currently operated byTransport for Wales.
The station was opened in 1987 when a passenger service was introduced to theCity Line, though the line itself opened in 1859 and was originally goods only. The station has an unusual staggered platform arrangement: one platform straddles the bridge over the roadway.[1]
Waun-gron Park is the nearest station to the large suburb ofEly which is 10 minutes' walk from the station along Western Avenue and over Ely Bridge.
The Monday to Friday off-peak service is two trains per hour each way. Eastbound toCardiff Central,Cardiff Queen Street, and thenCoryton, and westbound toRadyr.[2]
Journey times from Waun-gron Park are eight minutes to Cardiff Central, 11 minutes to Radyr and 28 minutes to Coryton.
There is no Sunday service, although some trains running to destinations such asMerthyr Tydfil,Aberdare andTreherbert from Cardiff Central sometimes pass Waun-gron Park on the City Line when the usual line for these services throughCardiff Queen Street is closed for engineering work.
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| Ninian Park | Transport for Wales Cardiff City Line | Fairwater | ||
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| Proposed transport network |  South Wales Metro
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