Aber Bargoed railway station

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Aber Bargoed
Location
Location	South Wales
Area	Monmouthshire
Operations
Original company	Brecon & Merthyr Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western 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 1, 1962	Station closes
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Aber Bargoed railway station was a small railway station in the Welsh 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.

[edit] 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 Railways Board.

[edit] The site today

The site is now partly an open space, and partly the route of the Bargoed Bypass road.

[edit] 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

• Station Build [1]

• The reclaimed Site [2]

• Station Build [3]

• The reclaimed Site [4]

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