paul cardiffwalesmap wrote:Peiriannydd wrote:Lyndon wrote:According to the Echo the slightly strange Army Medical Museum is still on,but not at the Bay railway station. It's moving across Lloyd George Avenue, next to the Travelodge I presume.
Interesting. In my opinion it would make more sense to use the listed railway station for uh, I don't know, a railway station? It's a radical idea but it may come to be useful when they take the metro down there.
Totally agree - I mean presumably this station is planned to get a whole lot busier so surely it's worthy of more than just two platforms. This would make a great station and it's well located for the purpose!! I suppose it's just to much of a no brainer to happen?
Its single platform currently, no? If through-routes beyond Cardiff Queen Street are planned it may make sense to go to two platforms (and either dual or insert some passing points for trains/trams on the route up alongside Lloyd George Avenue / Bute Street). But anything more than that would be overkill. Any trains using it will likely to be in an out quite quick so with 2 platforms you could have a like 12-15 trains an hour pretty easily. The bottleneck is likely to be the tracks not the stations.
And while better shelters with a few seats and maybe a food kiosk would be good, I don't see we could find a transport use for the old station building. Maybe a waiting room on part of the ground floor, but.. it'll be a bit far from the tracks and this is the kind of station people won't hang around for too long, so seats/shelter right next to the platform would be much more practical.
Better to get the building fixed up and in use. Not sure I like this particular proposal but I don't see a transport-based scheme as viable.