Aberavon Town railway station
Appearance
Aberavon Town | |
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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 as Aberavon |
1 December 1891 | Station renamed Aberavon and Port Talbot |
?June 1895 | Station renamed Port Talbot (Aberavon) |
1 July 1924 | Station renamed Aberavon Town |
31 December 1962 | Station closes |
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 Glamorgan. Opened as Aberavon the station's name was changed twice before the emerging as Aberavon Town in 1924.
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.
The site today
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References
- R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd.
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: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) ISBN 1-85260-508-1 - A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing.
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: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) ISBN 0-906899-99-0 - Railscot [1]
- Aberavon Town station on navigable O. S. map
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Bryn | Great Western Railway Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway |
Cwmavon |
51°35′48″N 3°46′59″W / 51.59672°N 3.78319°W