Aber Bargoed railway station

Aber Bargoed
Site of Aberbargoed Station in 1973
General information
Location	Aberbargoed, Caerphilly Wales
Coordinates	51.69599°N 3.22880°W / 51.69599; -3.22880
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
16 March 1866	Station opens
October 1869	Station closes
March 1870	Station reopens
1 September 1905	Station renamed Aber Bargoed and Bargoed
1 March 1909	Station renamed Bargoed and Aber Bargoed
1 July 1924	Station renamed Aberbargoed
31 December 1962	Station closes

Aber Bargoed railway station was a small railway station in the valleys north of Cardiff. Opened as Aber Bargoed by the Brecon & Merthyr Junction Railway, the station went through several changes of name before closure. Despite the similarity in the name it is not the Bargoed station now open on the line to Rhymney.

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 British Railways.

The site today

The site is now partly an open space, and partly the route of the Bargoed Bypass road.

References

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
• Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.
• Aber Bargoed Town station on navigable O. S. map

External links

• Station Build
• The reclaimed Site

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Cwmsyfiog & Brithdir Line and station closed		Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway Rumney Railway		Bargoed Colliery Halt Line and station closed