Aberdare Low Level railway station

Aberdare Low Level railway station served the town of Aberdare in Wales. Opened by the Taff Vale Railway, it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Railways Board in 1964 when the passengers service from Abercynon was withdrawn as a result of the Beeching Axe.

Aberdare Low Level
The station in 1954
General information
Location	Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf Wales
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Aberdare Railway
Pre-grouping	Taff Vale Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
6 August 1846	Opened as Aberdare
1 July 1924	Renamed
16 March 1964	Closed

The site today

Aberdare is now served by Aberdare railway station, a new station opened on the site of the former high level station in 1988. The station here was demolished after the line through it closed in 1973; coal traffic from Tower Colliery at Hirwaun was then re-routed over a new connection onto the former Vale of Neath Railway line near Cwmbach to allow for the removal of the busy level crossing here. The station buildings subsequently burned down in 1982 and the site was redeveloped - it is now occupied by the town bus station.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Aberaman		Great Western Railway Taff Vale Railway		Commercial Street Platform