BREAKING NEWS
Cloud Server Hosting For Online Businesses
Inexpensive SEO Services
Benefits of Wanting to play Free Online Slot machines
Abercwmboi Halt railway station

Summary

Abercwmboi Halt railway station served the village of Abercwmboi in historic Glamorganshire, Wales. Opened as Duffryn Crossing Platform by the Taff Vale Railway, it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

Abercwmboi Halt
General information
LocationAbercwmboi, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Wales
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyTaff Vale Railway
Pre-groupingTaff Vale Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
26 December 1904Station opens as Duffryn Crossing Platform
February 1906Station renamed Abercwmboi Platform
2 October 1922Station renamed Abercwmboi Halt
2 April 1956Station closes

The site today edit

Trains on the reopened Aberdare Line pass the site between Fernhill and Cwmbach stations, although there is no station at Abercwmboi now.

References edit

  • Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
  • A., Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2012). Pontypridd to Merthyr. Middleton Press. ISBN 978-1-908174-14-7.

External links edit

  • Abercwmboi station on navigable O. S. map


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Fernhill   Taff Vale Railway   Cwmneol Halt
    Cwmbach

51°41′17″N 3°23′58″W / 51.68796°N 3.39940°W / 51.68796; -3.39940