In 2022/2023, Cardiff Queen Street had 1,713,720 entries and exits, making it the 280^th most used, out of 2,575 stations in Great Britain.
It ranked 37^th busiest (out of 997), with 3,273 scheduled services per week.
That's a daily average of 4695.12 passengers* starting or ending their journey here and 10.07 passengers per service*, giving it the 920^th (out of 1,659) passenger to service ratio.
* This increases to a daily average of 5778.47 passengers passing through the station and 14.72 passengers per service when interchanges are included.
Service sample data based on scheduled services during the first week of the May 22 timetable.

A detailed breakdown of passenger journeys between individual stations can be found in our origin/destination matrix pages.

Plat.	Metres	VF*	Notes
1 (Bay)	55	199
2 (Down)	124	450	Signal at Queen Street North Jn end fixed at RED.
3 (Down)	184	669
4 (Up)	160	581
5 (Up)	166	603

*VF = Vicki Feet: the unit of measurement for platform lengths, as used in the excellent All The Stations. Conversion rate: YouTube video
Data derived from Network Rail timetable planning rules 2025 (Jan 2024)

Location: Cardiff Queen Street
CRS: CDQ / NLC: 3900 / TIPLOC(S): CARDFQS
Station Facility Owner: TfW Rail
OS Grid Ref: 318835 176517
Constituency: Cardiff Central
Local Authority: Cardiff - Caerdydd
NR Region: Wales
ELR: CAM 1m 08ch

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Top 5 jouneys from Cardiff Queen Street during 2022/2023:
•Cardiff Bay (86,489 journeys)
•Heath High Level (52,844 journeys)
•Trefforest (44,466 journeys)
•Caerphilly (44,100 journeys)
•Barry (38,009 journeys)
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