Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station

Coordinates: 51°23′14″N 3°20′56″W / 51.3872°N 3.3489°W

Rhoose Cardiff International Airport
Welsh: Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Caerdydd Y Rhws
Up platform
Location
Place	Rhoose
Local authority	Vale of Glamorgan
Grid reference	ST062662
Operations
Station code	RIA
Managed by	Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2005/06	0.101 million
2006/07	0.147 million
2007/08	0.166 million
2008/09	0.163 million
2009/10	0.157 million
2010/11	0.155 million
2011/12	0.180 million
2012/13	0.184 million
2013/14	0.185 million
2014/15	0.168 million
History
1 December 1897	Opened
15 June 1964	Closed
12 June 2005	Reopened
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.
UK Railways portal

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

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. This station opened on 12 June 2005. Passenger services are operated by Arriva Trains Wales as part of the Valley Lines network, an urban rail network serving Cardiff and the surrounding area.

A long title

Following its recent re-opening 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]

References

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

External links

• Train times and station information for Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station from National Rail
• Rail Link returns after 40 years - BBC News 10 June 2005