Cardiff Queen Street railway station

Early history The first station close to the current site was opened by the Taff Vale Railway in October 1840 and was known as Cardiff Taff Vale. It initially had one platform; a second was added in 1862 and, at the same time, the head office of the Taff Vale Railway was moved alongside the station. In 1887, Taff Vale station was demolished and replaced by a new station with the current name Cardiff Queen Street. At the time, it comprised two through platforms and a south facing bay, all covered by a large overall roof. In 1858, the Rhymney Railway built its own terminus just to the east of Queen Street called . This was replaced in 1871 by a new station called , a short distance north-east of Queen Street; it was renamed Cardiff (Rhymney) in 1888 and then Cardiff Parade in 1924. The station's overall roof was removed, and the original Taff Vale station frontage and booking hall was demolished; it was replaced with a modern structure and the number of platforms reduced to three: a central island and a south-facing bay. Modern electric lifts were installed to take passengers from the subway to the new platforms. On the east side of the station, a large office block called Brunel House was constructed; until 1984, it was the headquarters of the Cardiff division of British Rail's Western Region. In 1988, the entrance building was refurbished. In March 1990, platform 3 was turned into a through platform. As part of the scheme, a new entrance building and two new platforms were constructed at Queen Street. This brought the number of platforms back up to the pre-1973 number of five, allowing the number of trains running through the station to be increased from 12 to 16 per hour. These included a second northbound through platform and a south-facing platform reserved for the shuttle service to . The new platforms were brought into use on 14 December 2014. In the spring of 2016, a roll of honour of those who served the armed forces between 1914 and 1919 from the Taff Vale Railway was placed on display in the ticket hall. In November 2017, a QR code was added to give more information about those commemorated in the roll call. ==Layout==

Queen Street is the main hub of the Valley Lines network – a railway system serving Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan, Bridgend and the South Wales Valleys – and has the solitary connection to . It is located at the eastern end of the city centre, near the Capitol and St David's shopping centres; it sees heavy volumes of commuter rail traffic during the rush hour. The station has five platforms, at a level raised above the surrounding roads: ==Services==

Transport for Wales operates the following typical off-peak service, in trains per hour (tph): Southbound: • 12 tph to ; of which: • 8 tph continue to , via the Vale of Glamorgan Line; of which: • 4 tph continue to • 4 tph continue to ; of which: • 3 tph continue to • 1 tph continues to , via • 2 tph continue to , via the Cardiff City Line • 2 tph terminate • 4 tph to , via the Butetown branch line. Northbound: • 6 trains per hour (tph) to , via and ; of which: • 2 tph terminate • 2 tph continue to • 2 tph continue to • 6 tph to ; of which: • 2 tph terminate • 2 tph continue to • 2 tph continue to • 2 tph to . {{rail line two to one|previous1=Heath Low Level |route1=Transport for Wales Coryton Line |next=Cardiff Central|lightcol1=|previous2=Heath High Level {{rail line two routes|previous=Cathays|route1=Transport for Wales Merthyr Line |next=Cardiff Central |lightcol1= ==See also==