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Pontymister Pontymister (Welsh:''Pont-y-meistr'') is a small village in Caerphilly county borough in Wales. Location Pontymister is attached to its neighbour, the town of Risca. History Originally a farm called ''Tŷ Isaf'', the village came about as a ne ...

Caerphilly Caerphilly (, ; cy, Caerffili, ) is a town and community in Wales. It is situated at the southern end of the Rhymney Valley. It is north of Cardiff and northwest of Newport. It is the largest town in Caerphilly County Borough, and lies wit ...

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Transport for Wales Transport for Wales (TfW; cy, Trafnidiaeth Cymru; cy, TrC, label=none) is a not-for-profit company owned by the Welsh Government and managed at arms length by its appointed board. TfW oversees the Transport for Wales Group (TfW Group) consi ...

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Risca and Pontymister railway station ( cy, Rhisga a Phont-y-meistr) is a station on the

Ebbw Valley Railway The Ebbw Valley Railway ( cy, Rheilffordd Cwm Ebwy) is a branch line of the South Wales Main Line in South Wales. Transport for Wales Rail provides an hourly passenger service each way between Ebbw Vale Town and Cardiff Central, and an hourl ...

in south-east

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Risca Risca ( cy, Rhisga) is a town in the Caerphilly County Borough and the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire in south-east Wales. Risca has a railway station, opened on the Ebbw Valley Railway in February 2008, after a gap of 46 years. It is spl ...

. It is located roughly ½ mile south of the original Risca railway station. The station is located near Ty Isaf School and Mill Street on a site of former railway sidings. The station has two platforms and a

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car park. Vehicular access to the station is off Maryland Road, with passenger access off Mill Street.

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays, there are four trains per hour, alternating between and and and services. On Sundays, the hourly Cardiff to Ebbw Vale service runs via Newport.

History

The first steam locomotive passenger train ran on 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 ...

Western Valley line on Monday 23 December 1850, with service running twice in each direction (to Ebbw Vale and to Newport) each weekday. The MRCC had been running the canals and horse-drawn carriages on their tram-roads which went through Risca from 1795. Passenger services on the original line ended in 1962.

References

External links

Planning Approval Granted for New Railway StationArchive of Ebbw Valley Railway Scheme website
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, 2008) * Railway stations in Caerphilly County Borough DfT Category F2 stations Railway stations opened by Network Rail Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2008 Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail {{Wales-railstation-stub