Celebrate 19 Years of the Sidetracked series!
When: Wednesday 12th August, 2026. 15:30-16:00
Come celebrate 19 years of the sidetracked series with a quick chat and meet near Barry Island station for SideTracked 2026 week!
Location will be Finnegans Inn a stones throw away from the station itself, with seating inside and outside if its a nice day and not too busy being August!
Parking: there are several paid car parks around the island, but if you are lucky there are a few free parking spaces around, most likely along Breaksea Drive or Paget Road. Alternatively, you could park at Barry station and get the train the short hop to the Island!
Barry Island railway station is a railway station, 9+1⁄4 miles (14.9 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, the last passenger working through Barry Island tunnel to the Pier station being an enthusiasts' special in 1973.
In its heyday (prior to the early 1960s), the station had four operational platforms - one long main platform on the 'up' side divided into 2 sections (numbered 1 & 2, with 2 served by a dead end spur off the through line to Barry Pier) and an island platform on the 'down' side (numbered 3 & 4).
Now there is just the one platform left for this once busy station.