Aberavon Town railway station

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Aberavon Town
Location
Location	South Wales
Area	Glamorgan
Operations
Original company	Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	?
History
March 14, 1895	Station opens as Aberavon
December 1, 1891	Station renamed Aberavon and Port Talbot
?June 1895	Station renamed Port Talbot (Aberavon)
July 1, 1924	Station renamed Aberavon Town
December 31, 1962	Station closes
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Aberavon Town railway station was a railway station on the Rhondda and Swansea Bay line which ran in the Rhondda Valley and Swansea area on the Welsh coast in the county of of Glamorgan. Opened as Aberavon the station's name was changed twice before the emerging as Aberavon Town in 1924.

[edit] History

The station was incorporated into the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923, Passing on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

[edit] The site today

[edit] References

• R.V.J.Butt, (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

• Railscot [1]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Bryn		Great Western Railway Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway		Cwmavon