Tir-Phil railway station

Coordinates: 51°43′15″N 3°14′45″W / 51.7209°N 3.2459°W

Tir-Phil
Welsh: Tir-phil
Location
Place	Tir-Phil
Local authority	Caerphilly
Grid reference	SO140032
Operations
Station code	TIR
Managed by	Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	33,717
2005/06	26,507
2006/07	25,489
2007/08	25,437
2008/09	27,072
2009/10	22,400
2010/11	21,460
2011/12	22,994
2012/13	22,900
2013/14	23,632
2014/15	26,234
History
Key dates	Opened 1858
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Tir-Phil from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Tir-Phil railway station is a railway station serving the village of Tir-Phil and the town of New Tredegar, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network. Work to extend the platform to take the proposed six car trains has now been completed. From 2014 (subject to rolling stock availability) the train service was due to become every 30 minutes from the current hourly frequency with the construction of a passing loop at this station and a second platform as part of the Cardiff area re-signalling scheme - the new loop & signalling were commissioned in September 2013.^[1] Arriva Trains Wales have said ^[2] that they do not have the rolling stock to allow 30 minute services for the foreseeable future. The new second platform came into use on 9 September 2013, but the platform remained unfinished and no further work was done until August 2014.

The wall behind the new platform which retains the road embankment has been substantially rebuilt, but the platform has not been completed (April 2015). Work also restarted on installing a ramp on the old platform, and a 150 metres diversion for passengers leads to a temporary set of 44 steps at the south end which are causing much complaint. As at 3 April 2015 Network Rail were unable to give even an estimate of the completion date for this ramp.

Services

In the May 2016 timetable, the basic Mon-Sat daytime frequency is once per hour in each direction (with peak period extras, some of which are scheduled to pass in the loop here).^[3] Southbound trains run to Cardiff Central and onwards to Penarth (except on Sundays, when Barry Island is the southbound terminus).

Notes

1. Tir-Phil railway station improvements Drayton, Robin Geograph.org; Retrieved 2013-18-12
2. Arriva Trains Wales 2013 Station Adopters' Conference
3. Table 130 National Rail timetable, May 2016

External links

• Train times and station information for Tir-Phil railway station from National Rail