Aberfan railway station

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Aberfan
Location
Location	South Wales
Area	Mid Glamorgan
Operations
Original company	Quakers Yard and Merthyr Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway / Rhymney Railway Joint
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	?
History
1 April 1886	Station opens
January 1902	Station renamed Aberfan for Merthyr Vale
by July 1932	Station renamed Aberfan
12 February 1951	Station closes
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Aberfan railway station served the village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. Opened by the Quakers Yard & Merthyr Railway, a joint Great Western Railway / Rhymney Railway Joint operation, it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was closed by them three years later.

[edit] The site today

The site is now on the route of the Taff Trail. Aberfan is served by the Valley Lines station at Merthyr Vale, across the river.

[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

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Pontypridd Tram Road		Great Western Railway Quakers Yard and Merthyr Railway		Abercanaid