Newbridge | |
Native Name: | Welsh: Trecelyn |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Newbridge, Caerphilly |
Country: | Wales |
Coordinates: | 51.6658°N -3.1428°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Owned: | Network Rail |
Manager: | Transport for Wales |
Platforms: | 2 |
Code: | NBE |
Classification: | DfT category F2 |
Events: | Opened |
Years1: | 30 April 1962 |
Events1: | Closed to passengers |
Years2: | 7 April 1969 |
Events2: | Closed to goods |
Years3: | 6 February 2008 |
Events3: | Reopened |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Newbridge railway station (Welsh: Trecelyn) is on the Ebbw Valley Railway and serves the towns of Newbridge and Blackwood in south east Wales. The current station is on the site of the former station and coal yard in the town centre opposite the former Co-op Food store and existing council car park. The station car park and access to platform 2 is off a signalised junction on Bridge Street, with pedestrian access to platform 1 via Celynen Road.
The original station was opened by the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company on 23 December 1850, and closed to passengers on 30 April 1962 and to goods on 7 April 1969. It had 2 platforms.
The station and line reopened on 6 February 2008 when services between Cardiff Central and Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station commenced. In February 2009 Caerphilly County Borough Council started construction on a footbridge to link the station with the Comprehensive School, Leisure Centre and the town centre.
There are plans for an hourly train from Ebbw Vale Town to Newport; to accommodate the extra services, a passing loop and second platform have been built at Newbridge and Llanhilleth, opening on 4 December 2023.[1]
A half-hourly service operates in both directions on weekdays (southbound destinations alternate between Cardiff and Newport) and Saturdays with a two-hourly Sunday service.