Abertridwr railway station

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Abertridwr
Location
Location	Wales
Area	Glamorgan
Operations
Original company	Rhymney Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	?
History
1 February 1894	Station opens as Aber (Rhy)
26 June 1899	Renamed Abertridwr
15 June 1964	Station closed
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Abertridwr railway station was a station which served Abertridwr, in the Welsh county of Glamorgan. It was served by trains on the line fron Caerphilly to Senghenydd. The nearest station to Abertridwr is now Aber.

[edit] History

Opened as Aber by the Rhymney Railway it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed 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 old platform can be seen in the ground [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
Windsor Colliery Halt		Great Western Railway		Penyrheol