New Stations

I know this is an old topic, but wouldn't it be nice to start the proposed Metro system by opening new stations at Crwys Rd, St Fagans and St Mellons. Especially considering proposed new housing developments. Everyone will have ideas about other locations, but the project has to start somewhere.

Cardiff Sport Village (via foot bridge)

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Single platform along side Tesco's car park
There is a red light there anyhow and trains just wait at the moment without any benefit

Relieve the congestion on the Barry Line and make more use of the underused Penarth branch.

Also Tesco's would benefit, ££ car park and extra "green" shoppers

Crwys Road is a sensible idea, as well as an appropriate plan for east of the city - Pengam Green, Rumney & Marshfield.

What would be epic would be a steam train from Central to St Fagans, stopping at the station they are bringing in from Monmouth way. Think that would be a big hit & open up St Fagans for tourists & locals alike.

Can't see it zach. Cogan is a two minute walk from pont y werin. Plus there's probably newts or mushrooms that can only be found in this exact spot. Can't say for sure but if an application was put in we would soon find out

When electrification finally gets to the Cardiff and the Valley lines there should be a station between Cathays and llandaf, perhaps by Talybont. Coryton and Radyr joined together to make a circle line with the line doubled to increase frequency. New stations at Crwys Road, Splott, Rumney and St Mellons and Marshfield. And of course a branch line straight into the airport terminal.

Some good suggestions here. Once this metro saga has been concluded it should really help Cardiff expand. People from the valleys will be more willing to travel to the city to work. It can only mean good things for Wales in the long run.

Stations in Rumney and St Mellons are vital! I grew up in St Mellons and not having access to a train station as a teenager made things a lot harder than they should have been. Especially when bus drivers thought it was perfectly acceptable to drive straight past you.

I think another important point it to make sure that no more old track beds get built on and that they are reserved as transport corridors for any future developments whether that be rapid transit buses, trams, trains, bicycles and (heaven forbid) roads. No sense in wasting existing navigation!

The issue is how long it takes from the north of some of the valleys, from places like Merthyr and then access from some of the valleys towns that don't currently have a decent service. We already have a decent services from some places in the valleys, particularly the southern towns. From the southern valleys towns there are trains rammed with people coming to work in the city every day, I can get to Cardiff city centre quicker than many from eastern areas of the the city can by bus.

I'd also like to see an increase in services from larger towns like Cwmbran and better connections into Newport. It drives me mad to think that there used to be a service from Caerphilly into Newport that no longer exists, that the Ebbw Vale line train stops at certain Newport suburbs but doesn't go to the city centre yet. All the large populations centres in the city region need better connections and the metro should bring that.

Some good suggestions here. Once this metro saga has been concluded it should really help Cardiff expand. People from the valleys will be more willing to travel to the city to work. It can only mean good things for Wales in the long run.

Stations in Rumney and St Mellons are vital! I grew up in St Mellons and not having access to a train station as a teenager made things a lot harder than they should have been. Especially when bus drivers thought it was perfectly acceptable to drive straight past you.

I too grew up in St Mellons and know the struggle!
Buses are infrequent, take ages (40-50 minutes to town during rush hour) and sometimes didn't run at all - especially if some little oik had thrown a stone at a bus, the drivers would stop all services at an earlier point. Sometimes Tesco, sometimes further back in Rumney!
Also problems getting home from town in the evenings - Taxi drivers often point blank refuse to go to St Mellons!
Yet, all the while, the suburb sits alongside the main railway line... It's beggars belief a station wasn't built in the 1980s!

For what it's worth I would open new stations in St Mellons, Rumney/Trowbridge, Newport Road (around the back of TGI Fridays), Ely and reopen the old 'Roath' station in Splott, St Fagans. I'd also open one in Maindy/Talybont, Gabalfa/Mynachdy, Crywys Road & Roath Park.

As previously stated I'd also reopen the old line through Pentrbane and open a new line utilising St Mellons road around lisvane/pontprennau area.

The lack of a station at St. Mellons is made all the more staggering by the fact that there's a rail freight depot with sidings at the southern end of St. Mellons / Trowbridge. Talk about lack of foresight.