Blackwood railway station ( cy, Y Coed Duon) was a station on the

Sirhowy Railway The Sirhowy Tramroad was a plateway built to convey the products of ironworks at Tredegar to Newport, South Wales. It opened in 1805 between Tredegar and Nine Mile Point, a location west of Risca, from where the Monmouthshire Canal Company opera ...

. It served the town of

Blackwood, Caerphilly Blackwood ( cy, Coed Duon) is a town, community and an electoral ward on the Sirhowy River in the South Wales Valleys administered as part of Caerphilly County Borough. It is located within the historic county of Monmouthshire. The town house ...

History

The station opened on 19 June 1865 by the

after the conversion of the Sirhowy Tramroad to a standard gauge railway. The station had a signal box, which was eventually destroyed.Geograph: Signalbox at Blackwood, with date information, Ben Brooksbank
/ref> Due to competition from bus services in the area, the station met its demise to passenger services on 13 June 1960, though the last train ran on the 11th. Goods traffic ceased on 8 February 1965.

Present day

Almost nothing of the station and route currently exists. The National Cycle Network route 467 between Blackwood and Hollybush follows a lot of former trackbed of the railway.

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{{end box Former London and North Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1865 History of Monmouthshire 1865 establishments in Wales Disused railway stations in Caerphilly County Borough Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1960 1960 disestablishments in Wales