Aberthaw High Level railway station

Aberthaw High Level
General information
Location	Vale of Glamorgan
Platforms	2
History
Original company	Barry Railway
Pre-grouping	Barry Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1 December 1897	Opened as Aberthaw
1 July 1924	Renamed Aberthaw High Level
7 May 1945	Renamed Aberthaw
15 June 1964	Closed

Aberthaw High Level railway station was the Barry Railway station which served Aberthaw, located near the north shore of the Bristol Channel in the former Welsh county of South Glamorgan, and in the current county of Vale of Glamorgan.

History

Opened by the Barry Railway Company it became 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 in 1964 (as a result of the Beeching Axe) when regular passenger services over the line ceased. The line remained open to provide freight access to Aberthaw Power Station and as a diversionary route.

The site today

Trains on the reopened Vale of Glamorgan Line pass the site between Rhoose and Llantwit Major stations, although there is no station at Aberthaw now. The power station sidings remain in use for bulk trainloads of coal.

Sources

• 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.
• A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) ISBN 0-906899-99-0

External links

• Station on navigable O. S. map

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Rhoose		Great Western Railway Vale of Glamorgan Line		Gileston