Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station

Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station is a railway station that serves Cardiff Airport and the village of Rhoose in southeast Wales. A dedicated shuttle bus connects this station with the airport terminal building.

Not to be confused with Roose railway station.
See also: Transport in Wales

Rhoose Cardiff International Airport
Welsh: Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Caerdydd Y Rhws
Up platform
Location
PlaceRhoose
Local authorityVale of Glamorgan
Coordinates51°23′14″N 3°20′56″W
Grid referenceST062662
Operations
Station codeRIA
Managed byTransport for Wales
Number of platforms2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.168 million
2015/16 0.183 million
2016/17 0.181 million
2017/18 0.178 million
2018/19 0.197 million
History
1 December 1897Opened
15 June 1964Closed
12 June 2005Reopened
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Rhoose Cardiff International Airport from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station is located on the Vale of Glamorgan Line 11 1⁄2 miles (18.5 km) west of Cardiff Central towards Bridgend via Barry and before Llantwit Major. The station opened on 12 June 2005. Passenger services are operated by Transport for Wales as part of the Valley Lines network, an urban rail network serving Cardiff and the surrounding area.

A long title

Following its recent reopening with a new name (the station was known as "Rhoose" before it closed in 1964), this station now holds the distinction of having the longest name for a station as recognised by National Rail in the UK, in both English (33 letters, excluding spaces) and Welsh (Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Caerdydd Y Rhws – 28 letters, as dd, ng and rh are single letters in Welsh).

There are two examples of longer names in Welsh, but both were deliberately given new contrived names to take the record for the longest name. (Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is known officially as either Llanfairpwll or Llanfairpwllgwyngyll – the longer name is not shown on National Rail information documents – and Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion was fabricated to improve upon the length of the former.)

Services

From Monday to Saturday, there is an hourly service westbound to Bridgend and an hourly service eastbound to Cardiff Central and onwards to Cardiff Queen Street, Pontypridd and Aberdare. On Sundays there is a two-hourly service in each direction, with eastbound trains terminating at Cardiff Central.[1]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Barry   Transport for Wales
Vale Line
   Llantwit Major
  Historical railways  
Barry
Line and station open		   Barry Railway
Vale of Glamorgan Railway		   Aberthaw
Line open; station closed

References
  1. GB National Rail Timetable 2015-16 Edition, Table 130

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