Abertridwr railway station
- Abertridwr railway station
Infobox UK disused station
name = Abertridwr
caption =
locale = Wales
borough = Glamorgan
line = Rhymney Railway
owner = Great Western Railway
platforms = ?
latitude =
longitude =
gridref =
years = 1 February 1894
events = Station opens as Aber (Rhy)
years1 = 26 June 1899
events1 = Renamed Abertridwr
years2 = 15 June 1964
events2 = Station closed Abertridwr railway station was a station which served Abertridwr, in the Welsh county of Glamorgan. It was served by trains on the line fron Caerphilly to Senghenydd. The nearest station to Abertridwr is now Aber.
History
Opened as Aber by the Rhymney Railway it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board.
The site today
The old platform can be seen in the ground [http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinace1/2502903171/]
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
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