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Swansea
Address: High St, Swansea SA1 1NU, UK
State: Swansea
City: Swansea
Zip Code: SA1 1NU

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This was a fantastic station for both arrival and departure, having much colour in the red with white scheme for Wales! Departure boards are well distributed and modernized, signs being in English and Welsh is a neat touch. The platforms are sized largely for the trains, murals add to the feel and signs make navigation very easy! Entrance area is rather large, ticket office is a lovely building and cleanliness had been maintained.
Almost always really busy! Super drafty given it’s a mostly outdoor station. There is an indoor warmed waiting room but it’s rather hit or miss on if it’s open. Normally quiet in there but a bit on the dirty side. There is a costa open during the day however you will need to exit through the barriers to access it.
The Heart of Wales line Welsh = Llinell Calon Cymru is a railway line running from Craven Arms in Shropshire to Llanelli in southwest Wales. It serves a number of rural centres, including the nineteenth-century spa towns Llandrindod Wells, Llangammarch Wells & Llanwrtyd Wells. At Builth Road, 2 miles from the town of Builth Wells, the line crosses the former route of the earlier Mid Wales Railway, which closed in 1962.nnSwansea railway station serves the city of Swansea, Wales. It is 216 miles 7 chains 348 km measured from London Paddington via Stroud on the National Rail network.nnThe station opened in 1850. It was built by the South Wales Railway, which amalgamated with the Great Western Railway GWR in 1863,[3] but it was not originally on the South Wales Railway main line, planned to connect London with the port of Fishguard, and Swansea passengers had to change at Landore, two miles to the north until at least 1879. The station has been renovated and extended several times in its lifetime – most notably in the 1880s, when the stone-built office block facing High Street, on the west side of the station, was added, and in 1925–1927 when the platforms were lengthened.[4] The present-day frontage block, facing Ivey Place, was completed in 1934. Nothing now remains of the original wooden station with its two platforms and galvanised iron roof.nnThe majority of the rebuilt station remains intact, although the facilities have been reduced. The umbrella-type platform roofing which replaced the 1880s train-sheds in the 1920s is mostly intact although the canopy on platform 4 has been shortened. The number of platforms was reduced from five to four in 1973 under British Rail when the old Platform 1 was eliminated, along with the loading bays and fish dock that once stood beyond it. The remaining platforms were renumbered at the same time, so that what were platforms 2 to 5 are now platforms 1 to 4, respectively. On the east side of the station there was a connecting line which bypassed the platforms and ran at one time to coal tips on the North Dock closed in 1929 and subsequently infilled and on to a junction with the high-level line from Eastern Depot to Victoria station. Part of the route of this line, alongside the station itself, is now a staff car park and the remainder, which was carried on viaducts alongside the Strand, has been obliterated by modern development. High Street goods station was on the west side of the line, just north of the passenger station. The site has been completely cleared and used for housing and also the dedicated bus road that runs from the Landore park-and-ride facility into the city centre. On the opposite side of the line were extensive carriage sidings Maliphant sidings, large areas of which are, as of 2014, being redeveloped as the Hitachi IEP rail service depot.nnThere was great competition between the different railway companies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Swansea had seven stations in 1895, owned by 5 different railway companies: High Street, St Thomas, East Dock, Riverside, Victoria and Swansea Bay, & Rutland Street. Only High Street now remains in the city centre.nnSunday 08:00 – 20:00, with self-service ticket machines provided for use when the ticket office is closed and for collecting pre-paid tickets. A range of other amenities are available, including toilets, retail outlets, waiting rooms, ATM, payphone and the local Tourist Information Office. Bus stops and a taxi rank are located outside the entrance. Train running information is offered via timetable posters, digital CIS displays and automated announcements. Step-free access is available to all platforms.nnSwansea has 4 platforms, numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. Platforms are generally used.
Much better experience now that the fat, middle-aged, barrier worker with the black hair has been sacked. Saw him being verbally abusive towards customers on a regular basis. Even saw him asking customers to show their QR codes after passing through the barriers, as part of a ' random check' does such a job exist or was he simply bored?. Place is a lot easier to use now that this failed police officer has been given the heave-ho. Good riddance, moron.
Beautiful City.nIt has everything a city should have, well planned. Good places to eat, tourist spots and especially beaches.nGo explore.
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