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Blaenavon Low Level railway station

Summary

Blaenavon Low Level railway station was the northern terminus of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company line from Pontypool to Blaenavon in Monmouthshire, Wales.

Blaenavon Low Level station in 1965, three years after closure

History edit

  • v
  • t
  • e
Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company
Legend
 
  to Brynmawr
 
 Nantyglo
 
Coalbrookvale Iron Works
 
 Blaina
Beaufort Iron Works
 
 
 Bournville (Mon) Halt
Ebbw Vale (Low Level)
 
 
 Abertillery
Ebbw Vale Town
 
 
 
Cwmtillery Colliery
Tyllwyn Halt
 
 
 Six Bells Halt
Ebbw Vale Steelworks
 
 
 
 Blaenavon Low Level
Ebbw Vale Parkway
 
 
 
 Cwmavon (Mon) Halt
Waunllwyd Colliery
 
 
 
 Cwmffrwd Halt
Cwm
 
 
 
 
 Abersychan Low Level
 
 
 
 Snatchwood Halt
Aberbeeg
 
 
 Pontnewynydd
Llanhilleth
 
 
 
 
Brynmawr & Blaenavon Rly
to Brynmawr
Llanhilleth Middle Jn
 
 
 Pontypool Crane Street
to Aberdare and Neath  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Newport, Abergavenny
and Hereford Railway
  to
Pontypool
Road
Crumlin Low Level
 
 
 Blaendare Road Halt
Celynen North Halt
 
 
 Panteg and Griffithstown
Newbridge
 
 
 Sebastopol
Celynen South Halt
 
 
 Pontrhydyrun
Abercarn
 
 
 Pontrhydyrun Halt
Abercarn Colliery
 
 
 
 Upper Pontnewydd
Chapel Bridge
 
 
 
 
Pontypool, Caerleon
and Newport Railway
Cwmcarn
 
 
 Cwmbran
Cwmcarn Colliery
 
 
 
 Llantarnam
Crosskeys
 
 
 Marshes Turnpike Gate
Sirhowy Railway  
 
 
 
 Newport Mill Street
Risca
 
 
 
 
 
South Wales Main Line
to Gloucester and Bristol
Tynycwm Halt
 
 
 
 Newport High Street
Rogerstone
 
 
 
 Newport Dock Street
Pye Corner
 
 
 
 
Newport Docks
Bassaleg Junction
 
 
 
 Newport Courtybella
Pontypridd, Caerphilly
and Newport Railway
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
to Machen 
 
 
 
South Wales Main Line
to Cardiff Central

The station opened as Blaenavon on 2 October 1854, along with the rest of the line from Blaenavon to Pontypool. Low Level was added to its name on 19 July 1950 The GWR "lower line", which ran along the valley floor to Blaenavon Low Level, closed on 30 April 1962,[1] a year before the Beeching I report. A number of passenger lines in Monmouthshire were closed around this time due to falling passenger numbers.[2]

Today edit

Nothing visible remains of the station; the site has been used for housing.

References edit

  1. ^ Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 83. OCLC 931112387.
  2. ^ "Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company". Welsh Railways Research Circle. Retrieved 22 November 2014.

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