Place Llanwern Pre-grouping Great Western Railway 1850 Opened Original company South Wales Railway | Area Newport Post-grouping Great Western Railway 12 September 1960 Closed to passengers Platforms in use 2 | |
Similar Caerleon railway station, Richhill railway station, Eastriggs railway station, Thornhill (Dumfries) railway st, Templepatrick railway station | ||
Llanwern railway station is a former station serving Llanwern on the east side of the city of Newport. It was opened with the South Wales Railway in 1850 and closed to passengers on 12 September 1960 in preparation for the building of Llanwern steelworks. It was closed completely on 16 April 1961.
The Newport City Council unitary development plan and Sewta rail strategy plan for the station to be re-opened at the same time as the main line is re-signalled by 2012. Station reopening was subsequently postponed.
After the run-down of the steelworks and the building of housing on the site, the future of Llanwern seems likely to be busy and the station is also under consideration for some part in a broader Severnside Parkway scheme, to relieve the pressure of commuter traffic and its parking on the village of Rogiet and Severn Tunnel Junction.