Abercanaid railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Abercanaid


caption =
locale = Aberbran
borough = Mid Glamorgan
line = Quakers Yard and Merthyr Railway
manager = Great Western Railway / Rhymney Railway Joint
owner = Great Western Railway
platforms = ?
latitude =
longitude =
gridref =
years = 1 April 1886
events = Station opens
years1 = 9 September 1913
events1 = Station renamed Abercanaid and Pentrebach
years2 = 1 July 1924
events2 = Station renamed Abercanaid
years3 = 12 February 1951
events3 = Station closes Abercanaid railway station served the village of Abercanaid, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Opened by the Quakers Yard & Merthyr Railway, a joint Great Western Railway / Rhymney Railway Joint operation, it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was closed by them three years later.

The site today

The site is now on the route of the Taff Trail. Abercanaid is served by the Valley Lines station at Pentre-bach, across the river.

References

*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1
*cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 ISBN 0 906899 99 0
*Picture of the station [http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/Images4-A-H/AbercanaidStation.jpg]