Abergavenny Junction railway station

Abergavenny Junction
Location
Place	Abergavenny
Area	Monmouthshire
Operations
Original company	West Midland Railway / London and North Western Railway joint
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway / London and North Western Railway joint
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway / London, Midland and Scottish Railway joint
Platforms	?
History
1 October 1862	First station opens
20 June 1870	First station closes
20 June 1870	Second station opens
9 June 1958	Second station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

Abergavenny Junction railway station served the town of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire. At the junction of lines run by two different railway companies, the station was moved 500 yards north within eight years of opening.

History

Opened by the West Midland Railway, the station became the GWR / LNWR border when the latter took over the Merthyr Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway for financial reasons and to expand into Wales. Therefore it became a partly London, Midland and Scottish Railway and Great Western Railway station 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.

The site today

The station was sited near the point where the Beacons Way footpath crosses the A465 road. Trains on the former Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway, now known as the Welsh Marches Line, pass the site. Although the former Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway line closed, and has been partly built over, its route through the town and the shape of the triangular junction south of the station site can still be seen in aerial photographs.

Abergavenny railway station, to the south of the junction site, is still served by trains on the Welsh Marches Line.

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
• Abergavenny station on navigable O.S. map
• RailBrit: Merthyr Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway
• RailBrit: Newport Abergavenny and Hereford Railway

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Junction		London and North Western Railway Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway		Abergavenny Brecon Road
Llanvihangel		Great Western Railway Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway		Penpergwm