Butetown branch line

Cardiff Bay Line
Cardiff Bay Line
Overview
Owner	Transport for Wales
Locale	Cardiff
Termini	Cardiff Bay; Cardiff Queen Street;
Stations	2
Service
Type	Heavy Rail
System	National Rail
Operator(s)	Transport for Wales Rail
Rolling stock	Class 150 DMUs; Class 153 DMUs;
History
Opened	1840
Technical
Line length	1 mile 6 chains (1.7 km)
Number of tracks	Single track throughout (to be redoubled)
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map
Route map
	Legend
	Coryton Line, Merthyr line,
	Rhondda line & Rhymney line
	Cardiff City Line, Vale of Glamorgan Line
	& South Wales Main Line

The Butetown branch line, also known as the Cardiff Bay Line, is a 1-mile-6-chain (1.7 km) commuter railway line in Cardiff, Wales from Cardiff Bay to Cardiff Queen Street.^[2] The service pattern formerly comprised a mixture of shuttle services along the branch and through trains along the Rhymney Line to Caerphilly, or the Coryton Line to Coryton, but after December 2005 was a shuttle service from Queen Street station. However, in May 2024, direct trains to Pontypridd were restored alongside shuttle services.^[3] The normal journey time is four minutes.

^ "Impact of Core Valley Lines divestment on the Wales & Western region" (PDF). orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
^ Yonge, John; Padgett, David (August 2010) [1989]. Bridge, Mike (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 3: Western (5th ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. maps 22 & 28B. ISBN 978-0-9549866-6-7.
^ "Transport for Wales timetable change". 11 June 2024.

[1] "Impact of Core Valley Lines divestment on the Wales & Western region" (PDF). orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2022.

[2] Yonge, John; Padgett, David (August 2010) [1989]. Bridge, Mike (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 3: Western (5th ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. maps 22 & 28B. ISBN 978-0-9549866-6-7.

[3] "Transport for Wales timetable change". 11 June 2024.

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