Aber Bargoed railway station

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Aber Bargoed
Aberbargoed Station 1974386 53ad86a1.jpg
Site of Aberbargoed Station in 1973
General information
Location Aberbargoed, Caerphilly
Wales
Coordinates 51°41′46″N3°13′44″W / 51.69599°N 3.22880°W / 51.69599; -3.22880
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway
Pre-groupingBrecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Key dates
16 March 1866Station opens
October 1869Station closes
March 1870Station reopens
1 September 1905Station renamed Aber Bargoed and Bargoed
1 March 1909Station renamed Bargoed and Aber Bargoed
1 July 1924Station renamed Aberbargoed
31 December 1962Station closes
Location
Aber Bargoed railway station

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.

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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

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