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Coordinates: 51°23′14″N 3°20′56″W / 51.3872, -3.3489
- See also: Transport in Wales
Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Rhoose and Cardiff International Airport. A dedicated shuttle bus connects this station with the airport terminal building. It is located on the Vale of Glamorgan Line 19 km (11½ miles) west of Cardiff Central towards Bridgend via Barry and before Llantwit Major. This station opened on 12 June 2005. Passenger services are operated by Arriva Trains Wales as part of the Valley Lines network.
[edit] A long title
Following its recent re-opening with a new name (the station was known as "Rhoose" before it closed in 1964), this station now holds the distinction of having the longest name for a station as recognised by National Rail in the UK, in both English (33 letters, excluding spaces) and Welsh (Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Caerdydd Y Rhws — 28 letters, as dd, ng and rh are single letters in Welsh). There are two examples of longer names in Welsh, but both were deliberately given new contrived names to take the record for the longest name. (Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is known officially as either Llanfairpwll or Llanfairpwllgwyngyll — the longer name is not shown on National Rail information documents — and Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion was deliberately fabricated to improve upon the length of the former.)
[edit] Services
Monday to Saturdays there is an hourly service westbound to Bridgend and an hourly service eastbound to Cardiff Central and Merthyr Tydfil. Sundays there is a two-hourly service in each direction.
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