Fairwater railway station Fairwater railway station Fairwater railway station is a railway station serving the Fairwater area of Cardiff, Wales. The station was built when the City Line west of Cardiff Central opened to passenger services in 1987. The line on which it is situated on was opened by the Taff Vale Railway in 1859 to serve the docks at Penarth. Passenger services are currently operated by Transport for Wales. On Monday to Saturdays, two trains per hour in each direction serve Fairwater. Southbound services run towards and continue to Coryton; northbound trains run to . There is no Sunday service. The station
Splott medieval times, and a derivation of "plat", meaning a grassy area of land. The name of the original farm would seem to be Middle English "splott", from Old English (speck, blot, patch of land) and the word is to be found in other English place names in the Vale of Glamorgan, Gower, and Pembrokeshire, as well as in Somerset and Devon, in the West Country of England, from where it was presumably introduced by English settlers. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. The population of Splott in the United Kingdom Census 2001 was 12,074, in