Crosskeys railway station

Crosskeys
General information
Location	Crosskeys, Caerphilly Wales
Coordinates	51°37′15″N3°07′33″W / 51.6208°N 3.1259°W / 51.6208; -3.1259
Grid reference	ST221919
Owned by	Network Rail
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CKY
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
December 1850	Line opened
June 1851	Crossing used as station
About August 1851	Station opened as Cross Keys
30 April 1962	Station closed to passengers
7 June 2008	Station reopened to passengers as Crosskeys
Passengers
2020/21	12,474
Risca Line open, station closed		Great Western Railway Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company		Cwmcarn Line open, station closed

Notes

1. According to Quick (2023) citing material in the minutes of Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company the station was not ordered until January 1863 and opened sometime after then. ^[3]

References

1. "Opening of the Western Valleys Railway, Monday, December 23, 1850". Monmouthshire Merlin. 28 December 1850. p. 1.
2. "Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company - Western Valleys Line". Monmouthshire Merlin. 4 January 1851. p. 1.
3. Quick 2023, p. 150.
4. Biddle 1997, p. 473.
5. "Western Valleys Railway". Monmouthshire Merlin. 22 August 1851. p. 1.
6. Monmouthshire Sheet XXVII (Map). Six-inch. Ordnance Survey. 1885.
7. Bradshaw 2011, table 59.

Bibliography

• Biddle, Gordon (1997). "stations, passenger". In Simmons, Jack; Biddle, Gordon (eds.). The Oxford Companion to British Railway History From 1603 to the 1990s (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 473–475. ISBN   0-19-211697-5.
• Bradshaw, George (2011) [December 1895]. Bradshaw's Rail Times for Great Britain and Ireland December 1895: A Reprint of the Classic Timetable Complete with Period Advertisements and Shipping Connections to All Parts. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN   978-1-908174-11-6. OCLC   832579861.
• Quick, Michael (2023) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.05. Railway & Canal Historical Society.

External links

• Train times and station information for Crosskeys railway station from National Rail
• "Planning Approval Granted for New Railway Station". Archived from the original on 26 September 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
• "Archive of Ebbw Valley Railway Scheme website". Blaenau Gwent council. 2008. Archived from the original on 25 February 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
• "National Transport Plan" (PDF). Welsh Assembly Government. July 2009. p. 26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2010.