This platform was built alongside the former freight lines west of the main island platform, and did not form part of the original station. Arrangements until December 2014 Two platforms were in use, only one of which (old platform 1) was located in the historic part of the large island platform station dating from 1912. Platform 1 was the southern one of two former platform faces on the west side of the long island platform. Accessible via a subway, it was used, and is still used, by Cardiff-bound services. The east side of the island platform once had three platform faces. This side of the station had lain out of use since the lifting of track in 1974. A booking office, a waiting room and toilets are located in original Edwardian brick and terracotta buildings on the main island platform, near Platform 1. Platform 2 was a new platform for valleys-bound services built in 1990-1 alongside the former freight lines west of the main island platform. It was not part of the 1912 station. The platform shelter was built in brickwork laid in Flemish Bond, providing at least an attenuated echo of the station buildings on the main island platform. A new footbridge linked platforms 1 and 2. On 27 August 2007, the station (along with all stations further up the valleys) was closed to enable work to be carried out to enable longer trains to be accommodated, starting with the new northbound platform. This closure continued until completion on 9 September. During the summer of 2011 maintenance work was carried out at the station including work on the lift and restoration work on the canopy of the island platform. Ticket barriers were also installed. Regeneration As part of a £200m regeneration scheme to boost train capacity in Cardiff and the surrounding areas, Pontypridd received a third platform in December 2014. Work began in 2014 to build this platform in the station, to accommodate more trains and to increase the number of services to Cardiff. The new platform is a bay platform that will bring part of the east side of the historic 1912 station back into use. The new bay platform has been formed from the former middle platform face on the east side of the station (former platform 6), necessarily re-profiled towards its southern end due to loss of land to road widening. Since December 2014, platforms have