Cwmbran (GWR) railway station

Cwmbran
Location
Place Old Cwmbran
Area Torfaen
Grid reference ST294948
Operations
Original company Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Platforms 2
History
11 March 1880 (1880-03-11) Opened
30 April 1962 Closed to passengers
17 May 1965 Closed to all traffic
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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Cwmbran railway station was a station in the old village of Cwmbran in Torfaen (now known as Old Cwmbran) in South Wales, UK.[1]

History

The station was opened on 11 March 1880 by the Great Western Railway as a replacement for the first Cwmbran station on the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal.[2][3] This followed the Great Western's acquisition of the Monmouthshire Railway whose "Eastern Valley" line continued southward from Cwmbran Junction alongside the Monmouthshire Canal to Newport.[4]

The station was on a line opened by the Great Western in 1878 to connect the Monmouthshire Railway with the Pontypool, Caerleon and Newport Railway at Llantarnam Junction.[5] The Pontypool line, which opened in September 1874, had been built to relieve the congested Monmouthshire Railway and was absorbed by the Great Western in December 1874.[6] The line became the primary route for passenger traffic until the Monmouthshire between Pontypool and Newport closed in 1980.

The site adjacent to Victoria Street is now a car park and a doctor's surgery.[7] The present Cwmbran railway station was opened in 1986 on the opposite side of the town centre on the Pontypool, Caerleon and Newport line, which remains open as part of the Welsh Marches Line.[2][3][5]

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Upper Pontnewydd
Line and station closed
  Great Western Railway
Pontypool, Caerleon and Newport Railway
  Llantarnam
Line open, station closed

References

Notes

  1. Conolly 2004, p. 43, section A3.
  2. 1 2 Quick 2009, p. 142.
  3. 1 2 Butt 1995, p. 75.
  4. Awdry 1990, p. 36.
  5. 1 2 Cobb 2006, p. 141.
  6. Awdry 1990, p. 40.
  7. Jelf 2012.

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Coordinates: 51°38′55″N 3°01′24″W / 51.64852°N 3.02326°W / 51.64852; -3.02326

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