Aberbeeg railway station

Aberbeeg
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Location
Place	Aberbeeg
Area	Blaenau Gwent
Grid reference	SO209018
Operations
Original company	Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	4
History
21 December 1850 (1850-12-21)	Opened
30 April 1962	Closed to passengers
28 November 1966	Closed to goods traffic
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Aberbeeg railway station served the village of Aberbeeg in Monmouthshire, Wales. It was the junction where the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company's lines from Newport to Brynmawr and Ebbw Vale diverged.

History

Opened by the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company on 21/23 December 1850, it became part of the Great Western Railway in 1880 and remained there at the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was closed to passengers by the British Transport Commission on 30 April 1962, remaining open for goods traffic until 28 November 1966.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Cwm Line open, station closed		Great Western Railway Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company		Llanhilleth Line and station open
Six Bells Halt Line and station closed

The site today

Trains on the reopened Ebbw Vale Line pass the site between Llanhilleth and Ebbw Vale Parkway stations, although the station has not been re-opened (the platforms are still intact but disused).

The mooted extension of the railway line to Abertillery would involve relaying the line from Aberbeeg that was lifted in the early 1990s.

External links

• Archive of Ebbw Valley Railway Scheme website (Blaenau Gwent council, 2008)
• Aberbeeg station on navigable O.S. map
• Remains of the station in 1989
• Remains of the station in 2002
• Train passing the site of the station in 2008