Abernant railway station

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Abernant
Location
Location	Wales
Area	Glamorgan
Operations
Original company	Vale of Neath Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	?
History
November 1854	Station opens
31 December 1962	Station closes
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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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 Merthyr Tunnel from Merthyr Tydfil.

[edit] 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.

[edit] The site today

The platform remains on the now overgrown site. [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

• Abernant station in 1962 [2]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Llwydcoed		Great Western Railway Vale of Neath Railway		Merthyr Tydfil