Newport Railway Station

Recently redeveloped and has ok facilities. Biggest problem is Arriva trains wales operate through it and they are normally old and filthy trains.
Staff are normally pleasant and can’t be blamed for the terrible rolling stock. The station is always clean and there’s a good little coffee shop

not the best station i’ve ever been on but a step up from my home town,

It’s a slightly sorry indictment of the powers that be in Newport’s regard for their citizens — and no doubt the lack of money at their disposal — that it’s taken a major sporting event to warrant improvements on this uninviting train station. Golf’s Ryder Cup is the competition in question, bringing thousands of fans to the region. Ahead of attracting the superstar likes of Tiger Woods to the Welsh city (well, the Celtic Manor Resort on the outskirts), various disruptive redevelopments culminated in spruced up platforms and a huge metal caterpillar of a walkway. The construction carnage is nothing compared to what awaits outside the doors of the station on the average weekend night in Newport’s nearby chain pubs of course, but that’s beside the point. Still, anything to distract from the state of the existing elderly facilities is welcome: local urban legend has it that Newport Railway Station was the first in the UK to install blue lights in their toilets to stop vein-​seeking drug addicts using them to shoot up. On the plus side, regular train services to London, Cardiff, Swansea, North Wales and beyond mean you won’t have to hang around here too long. Be grateful.

Newport Railway Station is the third busiest train station in Wales, which becomes glaringly obvious during rush hour on weekday mornings and afternoons.
Several trains operate out of here: Arriva Trains Wales, CrossCountry, and First Great Western. Newport Station boasts four platforms, all of which, like Tanya said, aren’t well protected, leaving passengers freezing on a cold and windy evening.
Newport is pretty centrally located, although it’d be great if you could easily get to places like St Melons and Tredegar Park from here (you’re better off taking the bus).
Unlike many of the surrounding stations (ahem, Penarth and Grangetown), Newport houses a WHSmith, Upper Crust café, and a British Transport Police Station (who are always here patrolling the area).
I’ve been to worse stations, and in its defence, I’d say, for a town the size of Newport, this hub suitably accommodates the amount of human traffic streaming in and out on a daily basis.

Newport Station is undergoing a facelift. Presently and completely ridiculously Newport station is having to pay for taxis to shunt wheelchair uses between platforms.
Working from a simple Victorian base, metal correlated cladding is rising from the ground and a glass worm-​like bridge will enable safe passage across platforms.
Newport Station is mostly clean, has basic facilities — toilets and two shops. However whatever you do, if you can, please don’t use the subway underneath the station — it’s absolutely filthy, it is cleaned regularly, but to no avail.
Newport station is not Paddington or Manchester, it is busy and as previous reviewers have suggested it is plain simple, functional and doing pretty well to process the human traffic that it does.

Newport Railway Station is functional and what one might expect. Pretty much.
It does seem to have a little bit of a reputation for uncleanliness, in terms of gum and rubbish I think mainly. And although it’s hardly the cleanest, freshest and newest of all railway stations that I’ve ever been in, it’s hardly the worst. I’ve never seen it in a real ‘state’, like some people claim.
The worst thing about Newport Station, in my mind, is the wind in the Winter. There’s not a whole lot of protection on the platforms for commuters as they shiver in their stockings; more waiting areas are needed.
But apart from that, Newport is fine really. Just bring a book.

This station has improved a bit over the past few years. The staff could be more helpful however. There is a café and a small branch of the newsagents, WH Smith, which also sells snacks. Yes, the best thing is that the station is so near to the town centre so it’s not far to walk — there’s a pedestrian crossing just outside. Once over the main road you’re in the town.

Newport Train Stations now has 4 platforms as one has been added to it recently. There is a lift for wheelchair and pram users etc. Otherwise you can just walk up the steps to get to the platform you want. There are teles scattered around the platforms informing you what trains are due, what time, if the platforms have changed. You can’t get to the platforms though until you have purchased your train ticket at the ticket office as soon as you walk in. You then have to put it through a machine to check it over then the gates open for you. If not there is an attendant there to check your tickets are O. K and they let you through.

It has 3 platforms and offers services to most major places e.g. London Paddington and Waterloo. The station itself is very dated. It has the original architecture and features, and is a bit grubby. There is a shop and 1 café on the premises, but these are on a small scale and are not open all day. The ticket desk is quite small too and again not open all day, however you can collect your pre-​booked tickets using the card machines there which are useful.
What is good about the station is its city centre location. You walk out of the doors and you are in the city centre with all the shops and bus station close by.

Newport Station located on the edge of Newport town centre in South Wales, is a pleasant train station. It is on the main line into London (Paddington) and travel times are good.
One thing to remember is that there is a Passport office in Newport, which is very close to the station. Useful if you need to get a new passport at late notice — and not have to go into London.