Baglan Sands Halt railway station

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Baglan Sands
General information
Location Baglan, Neath Port Talbot
Wales
Grid reference SS741925
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Key dates
1 May 1933 [1] Station opens
26 September 1938 [1] Station closes
29 May 1939 [1] Station reopens
25 September 1939Station closes [1] [2]

Baglan Sands Halt railway station was a railway station on the Rhondda and Swansea Bay line which ran from the Rhondda Valley to Swansea on the Welsh coast in the county of Glamorgan.

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History

The 1996 Baglan railway station Baglan railway station - geograph.org.uk - 4122980.jpg
The 1996 Baglan railway station

The station was opened in 1933 by the Great Western Railway. [1] A number of rifle ranges were located in the Baglan Burrow area facing towards Witford Point, [3] established since WWI [4] and then greatly expanded with an access road from near Baglan School. The range is recorded from 1898. [5]

Baglan Sands Halt opened in 1933 and closed in 1938, only to reopen briefly between May and September 1939. [1] [2] The OS map published in 1964 shows the halt and indicates that it was disused. [6] and only a single rifle range is shown. A 'Baglan Rifle Range Association' is recorded in the National Archives. [7]

The halt was 16m 30c from the Rhondda & Swansea Bay Junction. [8] The site is now occupied by a factory and the Rhondda and Swansea Bay line has been closed since 1962.

A Baglan railway station was opened in 1996 on the old Great Western Railway's South Wales Main Line.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Butt 1995, p. 22.
  2. 1 2 Wignal (1983), Page 4
  3. ↑ OS Map 1:1m 1920s - 1940s
  4. ↑ Glamorgan XXIV.8, Revised: 1914, Published: 1918
  5. ↑ RCAHMW - Historic Place Names
  6. ↑ SS79SW & part of SS78NW - A, Surveyed / Revised: Pre-1930 to 1964, Published: 1964
  7. ↑ National Archives
  8. ↑ "Signalling Record Society". Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2019.

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References

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Aberavon Town   Great Western Railway
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway 		  Briton Ferry East

Coordinates: 51°37′03″N3°49′07″W / 51.6174°N 3.8186°W / 51.6174; -3.8186


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