Swansea railway station

Swansea railway station serves the city of Swansea, Wales. It is 186 miles 7 chains measured from London Paddington on the National Rail network.

The station opened in 1850. It was built by the South Wales Railway, which amalgamated with the Great Western Railway in 1863, but it was not originally on the South Wales Railway main line, planned to connect London with the port of Fishguard, and Swansea passengers had to change at Landore, two miles to the north until at least 1879. The station has been renovated and extended several times in its lifetime - most notably in the 1880s, when the stone-built office block facing High Street, on the west side of the station, was added, and in 1925-7 when the platforms were lengthened. The present-day frontage block, facing Ivey Place, was completed in 1934. Nothing now remains of the original wooden station with its two platforms and galvanised iron roof.

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