Aber Bargoed railway station

Aber Bargoed
Location
Place	Aberbargoed
Area	Caerphilly
Operations
Original company	Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	1
History
March 16, 1866	Station opens
October 1869	Station closes
March 1870	Station reopens
September 1, 1905	Station renamed Aber Bargoed and Bargoed
March 1, 1909	Station renamed Bargoed and Aber Bargoed
July 1, 1924	Station renamed Aberbargoed
December 31, 1962	Station closes
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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.

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

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1
• A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0
• Aber Bargoed Town station on navigable O. S. map

External links

• Station Build
• The reclaimed Site

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Bargoed Colliery Halt		Great Western Railway Brecon and Merthyr Junction Railway		Cwm Syfiog Colliery Halt

Coordinates: 51°41′46″N 3°13′44″W / 51.69599°N 3.22880°W