Bargoed railway station

Coordinates: 51°41′34″N 3°13′48″W / 51.6928°N 3.2299°W

Bargoed National Rail
Welsh: Bargod
Location
Place Bargoed
Local authority Caerphilly
Grid reference SO150000
Operations
Station code BGD
Managed by Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05  0.148 million
2005/06 Decrease0.133 million
2006/07 Increase0.142 million
2007/08 Increase0.145 million
2008/09 Decrease0.135 million
2009/10 Increase0.144 million
2010/11 Increase0.168 million
2011/12 Increase0.171 million
2012/13 Increase0.196 million
2013/14 Increase0.209 million
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bargoed from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Bargoed railway station serves the town of Bargoed in the county borough of Caerphilly, South Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney branch of the Valley Lines network. The station, which is the northernmost on the double-track section of the branch, has recently seen the reinstatement of a second platform (although it did at one time have three).

History

Bargoed Station in 1965

The station was opened on 31 March 1858 by the Rhymney Railway and was once a busy junction, serving lines to Newport (via Bedwas) and Brecon (the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway) as well as the current route, but the latter pair were both closed to passengers on 31 December 1962 and completely in 1963/5. The junction site and trackbed of the old Brecon line is still visible north of the station.

In 1905 it was renamed Bargoed and Aber Bargoed reverting to its original name in 1924[1] There was another similarly-name station, Aber Bargoed, opened by the Brecon & Merthyr Junction Railway & located on the now defunct Newport line south of Bargoed South Junction.

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays there are departures every 15 minutes southbound to Cardiff Central and Penarth, with an hourly service in the evenings. Sunday trains run every two hours and serve Barry Island rather than Penarth.

Northbound there is an hourly service to Rhymney on Mondays to Saturdays with a two-hourly Sunday service. The ongoing re-signalling scheme on the Valley Lines network[2] has seen the signal box here closed and a new passing loop constructed at Tir-Phil. The plan for a half-hourly service through to/from Rhymney was due to be implemented at the December 2013 timetable change, but this has been postponed until at least December 2014[3] due to there being insufficient rolling stock available.

References

  1. ↑ Butt, R.V.J. (1995), The Directory of Railway Stations, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd
  2. ↑ The Rail Engineer - Cardiff Area Resignalling Scheme www.therailengineer.com; Retrieved 2013-09-11
  3. ↑ GB National Rail Timetable May - December 2014, Table 130 (Network Rail)

External links

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