Trehafod railway station is a railway station serving the township of

Trehafod Trehafod is a village and community in the Rhondda Valley between Porth and Pontypridd in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, with a population of 698 in the 2011 census.(The earlier name ''Hafod'' was altered in 1905 to avoid confu ...

Rhondda Cynon Taf Rhondda Cynon Taf (; RCT; also spelt as Rhondda Cynon Taff) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It consists of five valleys: the Rhondda Fawr, Rhondda Fach, Cynon, Taff (Welsh: ''Taf'') and Ely valleys, plus a number of towns and vill ...

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...

. It is located on the Rhondda Line. It was first opened on this site by the

Taff Vale Railway The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) was a standard gauge railway in South Wales, built by the Taff Vale Railway Company to serve the iron and coal industries around Merthyr Tydfil and to connect them with docks in Cardiff. It was opened in st ...

in 1892.

History

The first station was opened by the

on 30 August 1861, and was originally named ''Havod''. The Welsh spelling ''Hafod'' was adopted in November 1890. It was resited in 1892, and altered to ''Trehafod'' on 1 January 1905. On 18 July 1889, the Barry Railway opened their main line between Hafod Junction and their new docks at Barry and immediately began carrying coal from the Rhondda pits along the new line. The route was not served by passenger trains until 16 March 1896, the new service running between and via Hafod and the Barry Railway's newly opened station at

Pontypridd () ( colloquially: Ponty) is a town and a community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Geography comprises the electoral wards of , Hawthorn, Pontypridd Town, 'Rhondda', Rhydyfelin Central/Ilan ( Rhydfelen), Trallwng ( Trallwn) and Treforest (). ...

. Passenger services along the Barry route were diverted via the former Taff Vale station at from 10 July 1930, but coal trains to Barry Docks continued to use the ex-Barry Railway route until June 1951 when they were diverted via .

Services

Monday-Saturday, there is a half-hourly daytime service to southbound and to northbound, dropping to hourly in the evening. There is a two-hourly service in each direction on Sundays, with southbound trains running through to . On 20 July 2018, previous franchise operator Arriva Trains Wales announced a trial period of extra Sunday services on the Rhondda Line to Cardiff and Barry Island. This was in response to a survey by

Leanne Wood Leanne Wood (born 13 December 1971) is a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from March 2012 to September 2018, and served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) from 2003 to 2021. Born in the Rhondda, she was elected as to the ...

and the success of extra Sunday services on the Merthyr Line and the Rhymney Line.

References

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Railway stations in Rhondda Cynon Taf DfT Category F2 stations Former Taff Vale Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1861 Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail 1861 establishments in Wales {{Wales-railstation-stub