Dingle Road railway station

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Coordinates: 51°26′24″N 3°10′48″W / 51.4400, -3.1801

Dingle Road

Heol Dingle

Location

Place

Penarth

Local authority

Vale of Glamorgan

Operations

Station code

DGL

Managed by

Arriva Trains Wales

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

18,811

2005/06 *

17,700

History

1904

Opened

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dingle Road from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Dingle Road railway station is a railway station serving the town of Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales. It is located on the Penarth branch of the Vale of Glamorgan Line 4 miles (6 km) south of Cardiff Central towards Penarth.

The Dingle Road halt is unusual in that it is located on a slope. The gradient approaching Dingle Road is very steep, causing more than a few of Arriva's Class 142 and Class 143 to fail, or struggle when crawling up the slope, particularly if the train is running on a single engine instead of the normal two.

The downside platform, just visible to the right in the photo, has been disused since the 1960s and the Beeching Axe when the downside rails were removed making the Penarth rail spur a single track service. The preceding station used to be Cogan but that was closed to passengers in 1968.

Passenger services from this station are operated by Arriva Trains Wales as part of the Valley Lines network.

The Dingle Road Halt was first opened by the Taff Vale Railway as an additional Penarth station in 1904^[1].

[edit] Service

Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a train every 15 minutes to Cardiff Central and beyond northbound and Penarth southbound. Evenings there is an half-hourly service and Sundays a two-hourly service in each direction.

[edit] References

^ Hutton, John (2006). The Taff Vale Railway, vol. 3. Silver Link. ISBN 978-1-85794-251-4

[edit] External links

Train times and station information for Dingle Road railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Grangetown		Arriva Trains Wales Vale Line		Penarth

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