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Although recent works have seen station platforms reinstated and a new booking hall constructed<\/a>, Cardiff Queen Street remains a shadow of its former self.<\/p>\n The overall roof and Taff Vale Railway offices<\/a> have long since been swept away, but I’m grateful to Rob Masterman for sending in these wonderful photos of the station from the 1960s which reveal what has been lost:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The overall roof was torn down in 1973 with several platforms being taken out of use.<\/p>\n These were eventually reinstated, and Cardiff Queen Street station is now second busiest raileay station in Wales after its close neighbour, Cardiff Central (formerly Cardiff General).<\/p>\n The former bay platform to Cardiff Bay (Bute Road)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Note the water towers at the end of the platforms.<\/p>\n (c) All photos by\u00a0robmasterman@hotmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Who remembers the old Cardiff Queen Street railway station?<\/a><\/p>\n Cardiff Queen Street railway station modernisation adds new platforms for increased Valleys traffic<\/a> [2015] Although recent works have seen station platforms reinstated and a new booking hall constructed, Cardiff Queen Street remains a shadow of its former self. The overall roof and Taff Vale … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[456,17,193,198,16],"tags":[1196,1045,1044,60,18,1195,1046,1200,207,1194],"class_list":["post-19326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-photos","category-places","category-wales-places","category-wales","tag-cardiff","tag-cardiff-queen-street","tag-cardiff-queen-street-station","tag-history","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-platform","tag-railways","tag-station","tag-wales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cardiff-queen-street-photos-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-51I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19328,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326\/revisions\/19328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"In](\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/cardiff-queen-street-photos-02.jpg\")
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<\/p>\nJoin the\u00a0<\/strong>discussion<\/b><\/h2>\n
More on Queen Street<\/h2>\n
\nCardiff Queen Street station gets its old platforms back as part of \u00a3220m rail improvement scheme<\/a> [2014]
\nAll aboard the Sir Tom Jones express, Cardiff Queen Street<\/a> [2012]
\nFifty year old train still in service as BR Class 121 rumbles along the Cardiff Bay line<\/a> [2011]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"