East Wales Railway Statistics

There are sixty-nine railway stations in East Wales.

Busiest Stations

The ten Busiest Stations

  1. 1 Cardiff Central 10,185,022
  2. 2 Newport 2,339,566
  3. 3 Cardiff Queen Street 1,713,720
  4. 4 Cathays 698,912
  5. 5 Cardiff Bay 510,964
  6. 6 Wrexham General 488,694
  7. 7 Barry 452,024
  8. 8 Barry Island 367,594
  9. 9 Penarth 367,498
  10. 10 Abergavenny 359,524

Least Used Stations

The ten Least Used Stations

  1. 1 Sugar Loaf 398
  2. 2 Garth 586
  3. 3 Llanbister Road 592
  4. 4 Dolau 680
  5. 5 Llangynllo 684
  6. 6 Cilmeri 760
  7. 7 Pen-Y-Bont 1,004
  8. 8 Llangammarch 1,006
  9. 9 Hawarden Bridge 2,006
  10. 10 Knucklas 2,634

Passenger Numbers

Passenger numbers for East Wales peaked during 2018-19 with 31,364,280 estimated passengers.

Usage dropped to 16% during the 2020-21 travel lockdowns and recovered to 75% by 2023.

Passenger Estimates for East Wales table
YearPassenger Numbers
1997-9813,050,190
1998-9912,998,394
1999-0014,574,350
2000-0115,128,614
2001-0216,483,262
2002-0317,182,960
2003-04 
2004-0518,507,597
2005-0619,278,109
2006-0720,746,243
2007-0822,767,195
2008-0924,054,736
2009-1024,578,530
2010-1125,551,542
2011-1226,337,054
2012-1326,799,988
2013-1427,408,468
2014-1528,155,686
2015-1628,155,686
2016-1730,160,082
2017-1830,949,878
2018-1931,364,280
2019-2030,313,358
2020-214,891,654
2021-2216,834,880
2022-2322,587,660
2023-24