Cogan railway station

Coordinates: 51°26′46″N 3°11′21″W / 51.4461°N 3.1891°W / 51.4461; -3.1891

Cogan National Rail
Location
Place Cogan
Local authority Vale of Glamorgan
Grid reference ST174725
Operations
Station code CGN
Managed by Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Increase 0.261 million
2013/14 Increase 0.283 million
2014/15 Increase 0.289 million
2015/16 Increase 0.317 million
2016/17 Steady 0.317 million
History
20 December 1888 Station opened
14 August 1893 Junction made with Taff Vale Railway
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cogan from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Cogan railway station is a railway station serving Cogan in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is on the Vale of Glamorgan Line 2 3⁄4 miles (4.4 km) south of Cardiff Central on the way to Barry Island and Bridgend.

2 trains
Two Class 150 DMU trains wait at Cogan station

Passenger services are operated by Arriva Trains Wales as part of the Valley Lines network.

Cast iron footbridge and Cogan station

The current platforms were constructed in 1888, but until 1968 Cogan had two additional and separate platforms on the other side of the main Windsor Road, opened twenty years earlier in 1878 on the Penarth and Sully branch line, which extended from the Cogan Junction points around the coastline through Lavernock and Sully to where it rejoined the main line at Cadoxton. That through link was closed in 1968, and the line now terminates at Penarth.

Dingle Road Halt and Penarth station remain open, but the two platforms at Cogan were closed when the line was reduced to a single-track spur. Most of the station buildings still stand but have been used by several private businesses including a shooting range, a garden centre, a second-hand car lot, and a marine chandlers. The area originally covered by the Cogan and Penarth dock's railway sidings and engine maintenance sheds now contains a large Tesco supermarket.

The cast iron footbridge between the two platforms has a heritage listing of Grade II.[1] The station is close to Pont y Werin, a pedestrian and cyclist bridge linking Penarth to the Cardiff International Sports Village in Cardiff Bay, which opened in July 2010.

Service

Monday to Saturday daytimes, there is a 15-minute frequency northbound to Cardiff Central and beyond. Southbound, there are three trains per hour to Barry Island and an hourly service to Bridgend via Rhoose.[2]

Evenings and Sundays, there is generally a half-hourly service to Cardiff Central. Evenings, there is an hourly service southbound to Barry Island and Bridgend whilst on Sundays there is a half-hourly service to Barry Island and one to Bridgend every two hours.

References

  1. ↑ "Footbridge at Cogan Station, Cogan Hill, Penarth", British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  2. ↑ Table 130 National Rail timetable, May 2016
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