Aberavon Town railway station

Aberavon Town railway station was a railway station on the Rhondda and Swansea Bay line which ran in the Rhondda Valley and Swansea area on the Welsh coast in the county of Glamorgan. Opened as Aberavon the station's name was changed twice before the emerging as Aberavon Town in 1924.

Aberavon Town
Location
Place	Aberavon
Area	Neath Port Talbot
Operations
Original company	Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
Pre-grouping	Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
History
2 November 1885	Station opens as Aberavon
1 December 1891	Station renamed Aberavon and Port Talbot
?June 1895	Station renamed Port Talbot (Aberavon)
1 July 1924	Station renamed Aberavon Town
3 December 1962	Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

History

The station was incorporated into the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923, Passing on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

The site today

References

• R.V.J.Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1
• A. Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0
• Railscot
• Aberavon Town station on navigable O. S. map

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Aberavon Seaside		Great Western Railway Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway		Cwmavon