Cardiff - Caerdydd Railway Statistics

There are twenty railway stations in Cardiff - Caerdydd.

Busiest Stations

The ten Busiest Stations

  1. 1 Cardiff Central 10,185,022
  2. 2 Cardiff Queen Street 1,713,720
  3. 3 Cathays 698,912
  4. 4 Cardiff Bay 510,964
  5. 5 Radyr 331,870
  6. 6 Llandaf 316,534
  7. 7 Heath High Level 281,310
  8. 8 Grangetown 202,168
  9. 9 Llanishen 150,718
  10. 10 Lisvane and Thornhill 143,258

Least Used Stations

The five Least Used Stations

  1. 1 Whitchurch 18,188
  2. 2 Birchgrove 33,378
  3. 3 Danescourt 39,874
  4. 4 Heath Low Level 50,076
  5. 5 Waun-gron Park 52,768

Passenger Numbers

Passenger numbers for Cardiff - Caerdydd peaked during 2018-19 with 21,641,412 estimated passengers.

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

Passenger Estimates for Cardiff - Caerdydd 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