Classic route
Rhymney Line
Cardiff → Rhymney · Wales
- Distance
- 37 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h
- Average speed
- 37 km/h
- Top speed
- 96 km/h
- Operator
- Transport for Wales
- Train
- TfW Class 231 · 756 FLIRT
- Countries
- Wales
- In service since
- 1858
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Rhymney Railway’s own valley, opened to passengers in March 1858: out of Cardiff through the Caerphilly tunnel under the mountain, then Ystrad Mynach and Bargoed to the head of the valley at Rhymney.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 287276 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of (Zug-Nr. 62141)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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