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===Rail=== At the turn of the 20th century Radyr had a busy railway from where [[coal]] trains were transferred onto either the [[Taff Vale Railway]] to Cardiff Docks, or the Penarth district line to the docks at [[Penarth]], {{convert|4|mi}} southwest of Cardiff city centre. Also, the [[Barry Railway Company]] freight route ran just to the north of Morganstown, over [[Walnut Tree Viaduct]]. To the south-east of Radyr was an extensive railway marshalling yard which included another railway bridge over the Taff to provide an alternative route towards {{rws|Llandaff}}.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/80403 |title=Disused railway bridge near Hailey Park |publisher=Geograph |year=2005 }}</ref> The sidings were lifted in preparation for a housing development in the 1970s. [[Radyr railway station]] still handles significant traffic, with over 200 trains calling each weekday and more than 400,000 passenger journeys per year.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.arrivatrainswales.co.uk/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=5952 |title=Valleys & Cardiff Local Routes Train Times |date=1 May 2009 |access-date=15 May 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/xls/station_usage_0708.xls |title=Station Usage Statistics 2007/2008 |date=2009-04-09 |publisher=[[Office of Rail Regulation]] |access-date=13 May 2009 |archive-date=11 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111060542/http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/xls/station_usage_0708.xls |url-status=dead }}</ref> Radyr is the northern terminus of the [[Cardiff City Line]].
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