Alberta Place Halt railway station

Alberta Place Halt
General information
Location	Vale of Glamorgan
History
Original company	Taff Vale Railway
Pre-grouping	Taff Vale Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
19 September 1904	Station opens as Alberta Place Platform
1 October 1923	Station renamed Alberta Place Halt
6 May 1968	Station closes

Alberta Place Halt was a railway station in the Welsh county of Glamorgan.

History

The station was opened by the Taff Vale Railway, becoming part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board.

The site today

The station has now been demolished. The former trackbed is a linear path and walk.

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Station on navigable O.S. map
• Line Diagram [1]
• The Site Now [2]

Service

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Penarth Town		Great Western Railway Taff Vale		Lower Penarth

External links

• Alberta Place Halt on navigable 1947 O.S. map