Abercarn railway station served the village of

Abercarn Abercarn is a small town and community in Caerphilly county borough, Wales. It is 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Newport on the A467 between Cwmcarn and Newbridge, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. History An estate at ...

, in the county of

Monmouthshire Monmouthshire ( cy, Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south-east of Wales. The name derives from the historic county of the same name; the modern county covers the eastern three-fifths of the historic county. The largest town is Abergavenny, with ...

History

The station was opened by the

Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company The Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company was a canal and railway company that operated a canal and a network of railways in the Western Valley and Eastern Valley of Newport, Monmouthshire. It started as the Monmouthshire Canal Navigation and op ...

on 21 December 1850. It was resited following a deviation of the line in . It became part of the

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

on 1 August 1880 when the Monmouthshire Railway was taken over having been leased to the Great Western from 1 August 1875. Passing on to the

Western Region of British Railways The Western Region was a region of British Railways from 1948. The region ceased to be an operating unit in its own right on completion of the "Organising for Quality" initiative on 6 April 1992. The Region consisted principally of ex- Great ...

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in 1948, it was closed to passengers by the British Transport Commission on 30 April 1962, having already closed to goods traffic on 7 December 1959.

The site today

Trains on the reopened Ebbw Valley Railway pass the site between

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and Newbridge stations. There is no station at Abercarn now, although the site was one of those considered at the project's planning stage.

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* * * * * (Map showing the location of Abercarn railway station) *

External links

Abercarn station on a navigable historical map
{{coord, 51.6503, -3.1377, type:railwaystation_region:GB, display=title Disused railway stations in Caerphilly County Borough History of Monmouthshire Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1962 1850 establishments in Wales 1962 disestablishments in Wales