Coordinates: 51°′″N 3°′″W / 51.3872, -3.3489
- See also: Transport in Wales
Rhoose Cardiff International Airport is a railway station that serves the
village of Rhoose and Cardiff International
Airport. A shuttle bus connects this station with the airport terminal building. It is located on the Vale of Glamorgan Line 19 km (11½ miles) west of Cardiff Central towards Bridgend via
Barry and before Llantwit
Major. This station opened on 12 June 2005. Passenger
services are operated by Arriva Trains Wales as part of the Valley Lines network.
A long title
Following its recent re-opening with a new name (the station was known as "Rhoose" before it closed in 1964), this
station now holds the distinction of having the longest names for a station as recognised by National Rail in the UK, in both English (33 letters, excluding
spaces) and Welsh (Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Caerdydd Y Rhws — 28 letters, as
dd, ng and rh are single letters in Welsh). There are two examples of longer names in Welsh, but both were
deliberately given new contrived names to take the record for the longest name. (Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is known officially as either
Llanfairpwll or Llanfairpwllgwyngyll — the longer name is not shown on National
Rail information documents — and Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion
was deliberately fabricated to improve upon the length of the former.)
Services
Monday to Saturdays there is an hourly service westbound to Bridgend and an hourly service eastbound to Cardiff Central and
Merthyr Tydfil. Sundays there is a two-hourly service in each
direction.
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