Place Abernant Pre-grouping Great Western Railway Platforms ? Original company Vale of Neath Railway | Area Rhondda Cynon Taf Post-grouping Great Western Railway November 1854 Station opens | |
Abernant railway station served the village of Abernant in Wales. Served by the Vale of Neath railway, the station lay at the other end of the 2497 yard Abernant Tunnel from Merthyr Tydfil.
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History
Opened by the Vale of Neath Railway, it became part of the Great Western Railway in 1865. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was then closed by the British Railways Board.
The site today
The platform remains on the now overgrown site. [1]
References
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