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Cardiff Railway Statistics

"Cardiff" is a county in the East Wales region of Wales. There are twenty railway stations in Cardiff.

Busiest Stations

The ten Busiest Stations

  1. 1 Cardiff Central 11,499,126
  2. 2 Cardiff Queen Street 1,828,790
  3. 3 Cathays 823,010
  4. 4 Cardiff Bay 546,878
  5. 5 Radyr 371,748
  6. 6 Llandaf 354,936
  7. 7 Heath High Level 341,488
  8. 8 Grangetown 251,958
  9. 9 Lisvane & Thornhill 190,216
  10. 10 Llanishen 188,198

Least Used Stations

The five Least Used Stations

  1. 1 Whitchurch 24,954
  2. 2 Birchgrove 49,066
  3. 3 Danescourt 52,492
  4. 4 Heath Low Level 60,230
  5. 5 Fairwater 64,542

Passenger Numbers

Usage dropped to 15% during the 2020-21 travel lockdowns and recovered to 72% by 2023.

Passenger Estimates for Cardiff table
YearPassenger Numbers
1997-988,571,527
1998-998,493,087
1999-009,608,692
2000-019,959,750
2001-0210,978,268
2002-0311,706,997
2003-04 
2004-0512,663,868
2005-0613,010,506
2006-0714,004,292
2007-0815,485,859
2008-0916,507,478
2009-1016,858,184
2010-1117,483,112
2011-1217,957,736
2012-1318,301,010
2013-1418,697,332
2014-1519,297,220
2015-1619,297,220
2016-1720,726,400
2017-1821,332,544
2018-1921,641,412
2019-2020,931,122
2020-213,122,660
2021-2211,085,164
2022-2315,040,816
2023-24 
2024-25