Llansamlet railway station
Lua error in Module:Infobox at line 235: malformed pattern (missing ']'). Llansamlet railway station is a minor railway station in Llansamlet, Swansea, Wales. The station is located below street level at Frederick Place in Peniel Green. It is served by local trains operated by Arriva Trains Wales on the South Wales Main Line between Swansea and Cardiff.
Facilities
The station has two platforms:
- Platform 1, situated east of the Frederick Place overbridge, is for westbound trains towards Swansea
- Platform 2, situated west of the bridge, is for eastbound trains towards Cardiff Central
As the station is unmanned, passengers boarding must buy their tickets on the train. There is a free car park for rail passengers.
Services
Journey times are around 10 minutes to Swansea and one hour to Cardiff.
At present Llansamlet is served by a train every two hours in both directions on weekdays. But no trains at present call on a Sunday. A near normal service operates on most Bank Holidays.
| Preceding station |  National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skewen | Arriva Trains Wales South Wales Main Line |
Swansea | ||
Former station
The former GWR station (from its 1885 opening until closed in 1964) was situated approximately 720 metres (0.45 miles) west of the present station, at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., on the embankment to the west of the Station Road bridge.[1]
Blocked access steps leading up to the platform can still be seen today on the northern approach to the bridge.
Notes
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.
<references />, or <references group="..." />External links
- Train times and station information for Llansamlet railway station from National Rail
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ André Scoville, "Images of Wales: Swansea, Llandore, Clydach, Llansamlet and Morriston", ISBN 0-7524-2153-0, chapter 5
- Pages with reference errors
- DfT Category F2 stations
- Pages with broken file links
- Railway stations in Swansea
- Former Great Western Railway stations
- Railway stations opened in 1885
- Railway stations closed in 1964
- Railway stations opened in 1994
- South Wales Main Line
- Railway stations served by Arriva Trains Wales
