Pontnewynydd railway station

Pontnewynydd railway station served Pontnewynydd village in the Welsh county of Monmouthshire.

Pontnewynydd
General information
Location	Pontnewynydd, Torfaen Wales
Coordinates	51.710661°N 3.053108°W / 51.710661; -3.053108
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1795	Blaenavon Tramroad opens
1 June 1854	MR&CC line opened
30 April 1962	Station closed
May 1962	Line closed

History

In 1795 the Blaenavon Tramroad was opened from Pontnewynydd to Blaenavon Ironworks with branches to Abersychan, Varteg and Cwm Ffrwd to carry iron nearly 6 miles from Blaenavon Ironworks to the Monmouthshire Canal at Pontnewynydd. The line was modified to a standard gauge railway in 1854 by the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company.

The station (on the Newport - Blaenavon line) closed in April 1962, which was more than a year before the "Beeching Axe". In financial terms the line was doing no worse than any of the other lines in the South Wales valleys but, like the local ironworks, the closure of the railway line was also linked to the opening of Llanwern steelworks. The amount of freight traffic the new plant generated was causing severe rail congestion in the Newport area and in an era when passenger rail transport was in decline a number of local services in Monmouthshire were withdrawn by the British Transport Commission as an operational measure.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Snatchwood Halt Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company		Pontypool Crane Street Line and station closed

The site today

The site is now a car park.

External links

• Photo of station