Barry Island railway station
Barry Island 
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| Welsh: Ynys y Barri | |
Barry Island station platform with an Arriva Trains Wales Pacer set awaiting departure.
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| Location | |
| Place | Barry Island |
| Local authority | Vale of Glamorgan |
| Grid reference | ST114666 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BYI |
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.617 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.592 million |
| 2013/14 |
 0.621 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.608 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.654 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 3 August 1896 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Barry Island from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Coordinates: 51°23′33″N 3°16′25″W / 51.3924°N 3.2736°W
Barry Island railway station is a railway station, 9¼ miles (15 km) south-west of Cardiff Central, serving Barry Island (Welsh: Ynys y Barri) in South Wales. The station has been the terminus – and only remaining active station at the end of the Barry branch of the Cardiff Central to Barry Island line since the closure of Barry Pier station in 1976.
Passenger services, operated by Arriva Trains Wales as part of the Valley Lines network, currently use the first half of platform 1.
In 1896 the railway line was extended along the newly built raised road causeway from Barry Station onto the Island to provide a service to the newly opened and developing Barry Island Pleasure Park day tripper leisure facilities. The Barry Island station opened in time for the August Bank holiday 1896. The new rail line also crossed to the Island at road level and consequently a level crossing was needed where the line crossed Plymouth Road. When premises on Station Approach Road (formerly Roman Well Road) were being renovated in the late 1990s, traces of the original track were discovered in the basement.
To give improved passenger access to the P & A Campbell's White Funnel steamers that plied the Bristol Channel in 1899, the line was continued past Barry Island station through a 280-yard double-line tunnel to the new Barry Pier railway station.
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