SideTracked - Lisvane & Thornhill Traditional Geocache

Lisvane and Thornhill railway station (Welsh: Llys-faen a Draenen Pen-y-Graig) is a railway station serving the Lisvane and Thornhill areas of north Cardiff, Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network.

The current daytime service pattern is four trains an hour to Cardiff Queen Street, Cardiff Central, Grangetown, Dingle Road and Penarth, and the opposite direction towards Caerphilly, Ystrad Mynach, Bargoed and Rhymney. 

Journey times are approximately:

• 10 minutes to Cardiff Queen Street
• 15 minutes to Cardiff Central
• 33 minutes to Penarth
• 4 minutes to Caerphilly
• 17 minutes to Ystrad Mynach
• 28 minutes to Bargoed
• 46 minutes to Rhymney

Services are operated by Class 142 'Pacer' units, Class 143 'Pacer' units and Class 150 'Sprinter' units.

The station is the replacement for the Cefn Onn Halt railway station, which was closed in 1986.