Newport is a major railway interchange in south Wales and is Wales' second busiest station. On the Great Western Main Line the station is between Cardiff Central and Bristol Parkway. On the Welsh Marches Line the station is between Cardiff Central and Cwmbran.
GWR 802 112 stands at Newport
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Cardiff - Nottingham Line, Great Western Main Line, Welsh Marches Line and others)
Station code:
NWP
Opened:
1850
Platforms:
4
The station was opened as Newport High Street in 1850 by the South Wales Railway. It has been expanded and rebuilt a number of times since such as in 1928 and 2010 when the platforms were extended to support Great Western Railway's new IEP trains. The original station had two broad gauge platforms and a single bay. The broad gauge lines were converted to standard gauge in 1872 [1]. The station gradually expanded as more lines and services reached Newport.
By the 1910s the station had eight platforms and a complicated layout. This has been simplified over time. The station now has four through platforms only. The station was renamed to just Newport in the 1960s when Newport's two other stations were closed. The Great Western Main Line was electrified through Newport in 2019.
The station is managed by Transport for Wales who also operate a number of services to the station along with GWR and Cross Country.
Transport for Wales 175 011 at Newport platform 4
View down the platforms, extensive canopies are provided
A GWR Castle Set (Class 255) at Newport
GWR 158 766
Old buildings and canopies plus new catenary
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Gloucester to Cardiff (Middleton Press, 2005) Fig. 91
