A HUGE new train station is set to open in a major UK city which has been described as a ‘game-changer’.
St Mellons in Cardiff, being dubbed Cardiff Parkway Station, has finally given the go-ahead, nearly three years after getting planning permission back in 2022.
The new station will be seven minutes from the main central Cardiff station, and hopes to “improve connectivity to other areas of the country and the wider UK”.
The four platform railway station would have eight trains an hour between Cardiff and Newport.
And longer train routes would include connections to Bristol, Manchester and London.
It would welcome more than 800,000 people a year, when built.
New park and ride facilities would improve access to the station, which isn’t common across Cardiff.
Initial plans set the cost of the new station at £120million, although this is likely to go up.
Cardiff Council Leader, Cllr Huw Thomas said the new station would “enhance the city’s future“.
He added: “Cardiff Parkway will significantly improve our transport infrastructure, leading to economic growth and job creation across Cardiff and the wider region.”
And Senedd Member for South Wales Central, Andrew RT Davies MS added: “This new station will be a game changer for Cardiff.”
The last time East Cardiff had a railway station was in 1959 with one in Marshfield, Newport.
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Currently, journeys from from St Mellons to Cardiff city centre take 25 minutes by car, but will be just seven minutes by train.
A new route from Cardiff connects the city to Edinburgh, with a new direct service.
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Elsewhere in the UK, Oxford’s main train station is undergoing an £161million revamp.
New direct routes will also connect Oxford and Cambridge.
Cambridge is getting a new £183million train station, with Cambridge South Station opening this year.
And two new train stations are being built as part of the new HS2 line.
Old Oak Common will be a new £2billion ‘super station’.
And the new £460million Curzon Street Station will open in Birmingham – the first of its kind in the UK in 130 years.
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