Place Aberavon Post-grouping Great Western Railway | Area Neath Port Talbot Platforms in use 2 | |
Pre-grouping Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway 14 March 1895 Station opens as Aberavon 1 December 1891 Station renamed Aberavon and Port Talbot Original company Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway Similar Aberafan Centre, Neath railway station, Coronation Chair, Neath Abbey | ||
Aberavon Town railway station was a railway station on the Rhondda and Swansea Bay line which ran in the Rhondda Valley and Swansea area on the Welsh coast in the county of Glamorgan. Opened as Aberavon the station's name was changed twice before the emerging as Aberavon Town in 1924.
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 the British Transport Commission.
References
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