Gilfach Fargoed railway station

Gilfach Fargoed railway station is a railway station serving the village of Gilfach, in Caerphilly county borough, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network.

Gilfach Fargoed
Location
PlaceGilfach
Local authorityCaerphilly
Coordinates51°41′03″N 3°13′39″W
Grid referenceST152990
Operations
Station codeGFF
Managed byTransport for Wales
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 3,606
2015/16 3,882
2016/17 3,152
2017/18 5,150
2018/19 4,396
History
Key datesOpened April 1908 (April 1908)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Gilfach Fargoed from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The platforms are short (16 m or 52 ft)[1] and can barely accommodate a British Rail Class 153 train, due to its small size it is affectionately nicknamed "Gilfach International". Passengers can only alight from the front doors of any train calling here, so the conductor on longer trains must give passengers advance notice so that they have time to move towards the front set of doors.

History

Built as a halt by the Rhymney Railway in 1908 for recently introduced steam railmotors, some 50 years after the line first opened. Although very close, the halt did not serve the Brecon and Merthyr Railway which passed behind, on its way to Bargoed south Junction.

Services

Mondays to Saturdays there is an hourly service between Bargoed and Penarth. Sundays there is a two-hourly service between Rhymney and Barry Island.[2]

On Monday 6 July 2020, the station will close temporarily due to the platforms not being long enough to accommodate social distancing measures introduced because of the Covid-19 pandemic.[3]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Pengam   Transport for Wales
Rhymney Line
   Bargoed

References
  1. "Timetable Planning Rules" (PDF). Network Rail. 6 February 2015. pp. 225, 226. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  2. Table 130 National Rail timetable, May 2016
  3. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53276751


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