Description
The station is situated below road level to the east of Queen Street, where the main entrance is situated amongst the shops in the 259-foot (79 m) curved brick building erected in 1933 on the south side of the line. A small ticket office is placed by the entrance to the covered footbridge that spans the tracks parallel to Queen Street. Lifts are located near the steps down to the platforms, the first of which leads down to platform 2 which is used by all trains towards St Davids but can also handle trains in the opposite direction. At platform level the old Queen Street C signal box built in 1925 and taken out of use in 1970 can still be seen standing at the end of platform 3 between the footbridge and Queen Street. Beyond this the line can be seen dropping steeply at 1 in 37 (2.7%) and curving northwards towards the 184-yard (168 m) St Davids Tunnel. The level areas alongside this line used to be a goods yard (on the right) and carriage sidings (on the left).
The wide and long platforms – they are long enough to handle 14-coach trains – are covered for most of their length by simple canopies. At the eastern end of platform 2 is the terminal platform 1, although this is seldom used nowadays as most trains approaching from this end continue at least as far as St Davids. At the far end of the platform a ramp leads up to another footbridge and another entrance, again on the south side of the line, from New North Road. Ticket barriers were installed in early 2011 both at the main entrance and at the New North Road Entrance.
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