Abercwmboi Halt railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Abercwmboi Halt


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locale = South Wales
borough = Glamorgan
line = Taff Vale Railway
owner = Great Western Railway
platforms = ?
latitude =
longitude =
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years = January 1905
events = Station opens as Duffryn Crossing Platform
years1 = February 1906
events1 = Station renamed Abercwmboi Platform
years2 = 2 October 1922
events2 = Station renamed Abercwmboi Halt
years3 = 2 April 1956
events3 = Station closes Abercwmboi Halt railway station served the village of Abercwmboi in historic Glamorganshire, Wales. Opened as Duffryn Crossing Platform 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 Transport Commission.

The site today

Trains on the reopened Aberdare Line pass the site between Fernhill and Cwmbach stations, although there is no station at Abercwmboi now.

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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