Abercarn railway station

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Abercarn
Location
Location	South Wales
Area	Monmouthshire
Operations
Original company	Monmouthshire Railway
Pre-grouping	[[]]
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	?
History
21 December 1850	Station opens
30 April 1962	Station closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D-F G H-J K-L M-O P-R S T-Z
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Abercarn railway station served the village of Abercarn, in the county of Monmouthshire in South Wales. Opened by the Monmouthshire Railway, it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was closed by the British Transport Commission.

[edit] The site today

Trains on the reopened Ebbw Valley Line pass the site between Cross Keys and Newbridge stations. There is no station at Abercarn now, although the site was one of those considered at the project's planning stage.[1]

[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

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Cwmcarn		Great Western Railway Monmouthshire Railway		Celynen South Halt