An excellent morning spent at Cardiff Central station on the South Wales Mainline where we see no end of services from Transport For Wales, Cross Country, Great Western Railway and freight from DB Cargo UK.

Cardiff Central was built in 1850 and was used exclusively by the Great Western Railway when they wee running their trains from the capital into Wales. The station owes its existence to Isambard Kingdom Brunel who managed to divert the river Taff to the West which allowed the area to be to developed for the station to take place. After a long time of not being touched by architects in 1932 and 1934 the station was redesigned into a new stone structure which included an impressive booking office and waiting area to improve passenger comfort at the station, within the building itself the Great Western Railway had its name carved into the stone which you can still see to this day. The station building has become a grade 2 listed site which means that the main entrance, buildings and platforms cannot be touched by any sort of work unless its to repair where needed. The only work currently taking place is the current electrification of the line.

The station has always had the name Cardiff, this was the original name for the station before being renamed Cardiff General in July 1924 and finally Cardiff Central in May 1973.

There was another station here called Cardiff Riverside station which served the Riverside railway, this was integrated into Cardiff Central in 1940, but the platforms were closed to passenger usage in the late 1960's.

My next station is going to be Hersham back on the South Western Mainline, it was going to be Norwich but once again because engineering works were taking place between there and Colchester it meant that I had to postpone that one yet again, this also gives me the chance to continue on with my South Western Mainline series. I came here because of engineering works taking place on the South Western Mainline, whilst there were trains running I wouldn't have got the full timetable. This is why I came here. I have also made the video over an hour in length due to the fact that this was the only station that I came to on that day. I hope you all enjoy watching this, I thoroughly enjoyed filming it.

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I apologise for the total butchering of the pronunciations of the Welsh stations mentioned throughout the video.

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