Aberavon Seaside railway station

Aberavon (Seaside)
General information
Location	Neath Port Talbot
Platforms	2
History
Original company	Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
Pre-grouping	Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
14 March 1895	Station opens
2 December 1962	Station closes

Aberavon (Seaside) railway station was a railway station on the Rhondda and Swansea Bay line which ran from the Rhondda Valley to Swansea on the Welsh coast in the county of Glamorgan.

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.

References

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) ISBN 1-85260-508-1
• A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) ISBN 0-906899-99-0
• Railscot [1]
• Aberavon Seaside station on navigable O. S. map

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Aberavon Town		Great Western Railway Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway		Baglan Sands