Aberthin Platform | |
|---|---|
 site of the former station | |
| Location | Aberthin, Vale of Glamorgan Wales |
| Platforms | 1 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | Taff Vale Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 1 May 1905 | Station opens |
| 12 July 1920 | Station closed |
Aberthin Platform railway station was a short lived Taff Vale Railway station which served Aberthin, a village north east of Cowbridge in the Welsh county of Glamorganshire.
Opened by the Taff Vale Railway it only operated for fifteen years. It was one of four stations (all 'platforms') opened on the Cowbridge branch in 1905 in an attempt to develop new traffic on the line. Like the other three 'platforms', Aberthin Platform was a single bare platform, about forty feet in length and was without any form of shelter. It was located about half a mile from the village and was reached by a footpath over the fields. [1]
The site is now in a field to the west of the village where a track crosses formation of the old railway.
The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) was a standard gauge railway in South Wales, built by the Taff Vale Railway Company to serve the iron and coal industries around Merthyr Tydfil and to connect them with docks in Cardiff. It was opened in stages in 1840 and 1841.
Aberthin is a small village, just outside Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, on the north side of a shallow valley, less than a mile northeast of Cowbridge across the A48 road. Cowbridge Comprehensive School lies just to the southwest of the village. About 250 metres to the south is an old quarry, with a "faulted strip of grey oolite". Aberthin is also the name of a brook, the River Aberthin. The village was served by the Aberthin Platform railway station between 1905 and 1920, now a field to the west of Aberthin.
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The Llancaiach Branch railway line was a mineral branch line in Glamorganshire, South Wales. It was authorised in 1836 as part of the Taff Vale Railway, and its purpose was to connect collieries at Llancaiach and bring their output to Cardiff for onward shipment. It was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and built on the standard gauge. It opened in 1841 from a junction with the Merthyr line immediately south of Abercynon. It was intended to be horse worked, and included a self-acting rope-worked inclined plane near the junction. The collieries were slow to use the line, preferring their customary use of a tramroad and the Glamorganshire Canal, and the value of the line was diminished when the Taff Vale Extension line, an east-west connecting line belonging to the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway, intersected it and cut off the colliery connections, and the line became dormant.
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Cardiff Crockherbtown was a railway station in the area then known as Crockherbtown in central Cardiff, and was the main Cardiff station of the Rhymney Railway. It was opened on 1 April 1871 when the Rhymney Railway opened its own route into Cardiff from Caerphilly, it replaced the nearby Adam Street station, and consisted of two through platforms and a bay. The station was built a short distance north-east of Cardiff Queen Street station of the Taff Vale Railway. In 1888 the station was renamed Cardiff (Rhymney). Passenger returns from 1920 show that 800,000 passengers were using the station per annum. In 1922, the Rhymney Railway and Taff Vale Railways became part of the Great Western Railway (GWR), and in 1924 the station was renamed again to Cardiff Parade.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trerhyngyll and Maendy Halt | Taff Vale Railway Llantrisant-Aberthaw | Cowbridge |
Coordinates: 51°28′12″N3°26′03″W / 51.47001°N 3.43430°W
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