Aberdare Low Level railway station explained

Aberdare Low Level
Status:Disused
Borough:Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Country:Wales
Platforms:1
Original:Aberdare Railway
Pregroup:Taff Vale Railway
Postgroup:Great Western Railway
Years:6 August 1846
Events:Opened as Aberdare
Years1:1 July 1924
Events1:Renamed
Years2:16 March 1964
Events2:Closed

Aberdare Low Level railway station served the town of Aberdare in Wales. Opened by the Taff Vale Railway, it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Railways Board in 1964 when the passengers service from was withdrawn as a result of the Beeching Axe.

The site today

Aberdare is now served by Aberdare railway station, a new station opened on the site of the former high level station in 1988. The station here was demolished after the line through it closed in 1973; coal traffic from Tower Colliery at Hirwaun was then re-routed over a new connection onto the former Vale of Neath Railway line near to allow for the removal of the busy level crossing here. The station buildings subsequently burned down in 1982 and the site was redeveloped - it is now occupied by the town bus station.[1]

Sources

51.7129°N -3.4415°W

Notes and References

  1. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3305953 Photo of the former Low Level Station site