Dingle Road | |
Native Name: | cy|Heol Dingle |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan |
Country: | Wales |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | Transport for Wales |
Platforms: | 1 |
Code: | DGL |
Classification: | DfT category F2 |
Original: | Taff Vale Railway |
Postgroup: | Great Western Railway |
Years: | 1 March 1904 |
Events: | opened |
Years1: | 1967 |
Events1: | Down platform closed |
Years2: | 1984 |
Events2: | buildings on remaining platform replaced |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Dingle Road railway station is a railway station in the town of Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. It is on the Penarth branch of the Vale of Glamorgan Line 3miles south of on the way to .
All passenger trains serving this station are operated by Transport for Wales as part of the Valley Lines network.
The Taff Vale Railway opened the station in 1904.[1] It had two platforms until 1967, when British Rail closed the Down platform and reduced the line from double to single track.
During Monday to Saturday daytimes, there are four trains per hour to . Before timetable changes on the 2nd June, they then travelled beyond to, and hourly through to northbound and southbound.[2] Following these changes, however, trains now run to and, flipping between destinations with each train.[3] On Monday to Saturday evenings, there are two trains per hour.
Before the May 2024 timetable alterations, on Sundays there was only one train every two hours (to & only) and no late evening service. After these changes, services now run once an hour, terminating at, running between 10am and 10pm.