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Swansea Bay is a former railway station in Swansea next to Swansea Bay, in South Wales, opened to passenger and goods traffic on 14 December 1867. Owned successively by the Llanelly Railway and Dock Company, the Swansea and Carmarthen Railways Company, the London and North Western Railway Company, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company and British Railways, it was served by trains to and from Shrewsbury, Crewe, Liverpool, Manchester and York and formed the southern terminus of the Central Wales line, most of which is still operational as the Heart of Wales Line. Swansea Bay closed in June 1964, having been listed in the Report on the Reshaping of British Railways the previous year. The former station is near Blackpill and the Clyne Valley Country Park and was adjacent to the Swansea and Mumbles Railway which was closed in 1960. Much of the trackbed is now part of the A4067 road towards Swansea Victoria.
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South Pit Halt railway station served South Pit Colliery, located in the village of Glyncorrwg, in the historical county of Glamorganshire, Wales, from 1923 to 1964 on the South Wales Mineral Railway.
References
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- ↑ "GLYNCORRWG TO CYMMER TRAIL - Swansea Bay Without A Car". Tourism Swansea Bay. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
