Dinas Rhondda railway station

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.

Dinas Rhondda
Location
PlaceDinas Rhondda
Local authorityRhondda Cynon Taf
Coordinates51°37′03″N 3°26′14″W
Grid referenceST005919
Operations
Station codeDMG
Managed byTransport for Wales
Number of platforms1
DfT categoryF1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 59,680
2015/16 50,456
2016/17 57,814
2017/18 52,822
2018/19 52,000
History
Key datesOpened 1863 (1863)
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dinas Rhondda from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

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.[1] 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.[2]

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

References
  1. Table 130 National Rail timetable, May 2016
  2. "Extra Sunday services between Treherbert and Barry Island". Archived from the original on 22 July 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2019.


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