Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox 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.
The station is located on the Vale of Glamorgan Line Template:Convert 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.
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Following its recent reopening with a new name (the station was known as "Rhoose" before it closed in 1964),[1] 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).
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch railway station arguably has a longer name, but the village in question was deliberately given a contrived name for that very reason, and the station is known officially as either Llanfairpwll or Llanfairpwllgwyngyll – the longer name is not shown on National Rail information documents. Historically, there was a second "longer" station name, as before 2007 Golf Halt on the privately-owned Fairbourne Railway (a heritage railway tourist attraction) was known as "Gorsafawddachaidraigddanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion", a grammatically-incorrect pseudo-Welsh name that was coined for the express purpose of rivaling Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.
Services
From Monday to Saturday, there is an hourly service westbound to Template:Stnlnk and an hourly service eastbound to Template:Stnlnk and onwards to Template:Rws, Rhymney. On Sundays there is a two-hourly service in each direction, with eastbound trains terminating at Cardiff Central.[2]
| Preceding station | National Rail National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Barry | style="background:#Template:KAW colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Transport for Wales Vale Line |
style="background:#Template:KAW colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Llantwit Major |
| Template:Stnlnk Line and station open |
style="background:#Template:Barry colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Barry Railway Vale of Glamorgan Railway |
style="background:#Template:Barry colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Template:Stnlnk Line open; station closed ReferencesExternal linksTemplate:Commons category-inline
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- Railway stations in the Vale of Glamorgan
- Former Barry Railway stations
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1897
- Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964
- Reopened railway stations in Great Britain
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2005
- Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
- Airport railway stations in the United Kingdom
- Beeching closures in Wales
- Rhoose
- Railway stations opened by Network Rail