Rhymney Railway
Dates
| 24/07/1854 | Rhymney Railway Act for a line from the Rhymney Iron Works to the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway at Hengoed. |
| 02/07/1855 | Rhymney Railway Act for line from Hengoed to Walnut Tree Junction at Taff's Well on the Taff Vale Railway. Running powers granted from Walnut Tree Junction to Crockherbtown Junction, just north of Cardiff Queen Street. A Rhymney Railway line is authorised from here to Bute East Dock. |
| /09/1857 | Rhymney Railway Branch to Bute East Dock opened. |
| /09/1857 | Bute East Dock Branch (Bute Trustees) Branch opened and leased to the Rhymney Railway, as then not yet opened. |
| / /1858 | Brecon and Merthyr Railway Bill presented for line to Dowlais. Backed by the de Wintons and other Brecon bankers. Also backed by GT Clark of the Dowlais Iron Company and John Boyle of the Rhymney Railway. Engineer: Henry Conybeare. |
| 25/02/1858 | Rhymney Railway Opened to freight. |
| 31/03/1858 | Rhymney Railway Opened to passengers. |
| / /1860 | Rhymney Railway Cornelius Lundie leaves the Blyth and Tyne Railway and joins the Rhymney Railway board. |
| 31/12/1860 | Railway Clearing House By this date, Carlisle and Port Carlisle Railway and Dock, Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway, Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock, Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway, Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway, Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway, Great North of Scotland Railway, Great Western Railway, Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway, Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway, Luton, Dunstable and Welwyn Junction Railway, North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway, Rhymney Railway, South Wales Railway, Stamford and Essendine Railway, Taff Vale Railway, Vale of Clywd Railway and Warrington and Stockport Railway join. |
| 01/08/1861 | Rumney Railway Act passed to convert tramroad into a railway and modify levels and for a branch from Machen to the Rhymney Railway at Caerphilly. |
| 25/07/1864 | Rhymney Railway Act for Caerphilly to Cardiff Line (Rhymney Railway) and connection to the Caerphilly Branch (Brecon and Merthyr Railway). Traffic agreement made with the London and North Western Railway. Larger company helps finance smaller company's plans. |
| 01/11/1868 | Deri Branch (Rhymney Railway) Line opened from Bargoed North Junction to Deri. The Brecon and Merthyr Railway had running powers of this from Deri to the main line of the Rhymney Railway and from there to the junction with a spur from the Rumney Railway. |
| 01/11/1868 | Extension to Rumney Railway (Brecon and Merthyr Railway) Northern section opened from Pant to Deri. The Rhymney Railway had running powers from Deri to Fochriew and Pantywaun for freight and had a connection from Fochriew to the Taff Bargoed Joint Line. |
| / /1871 | Rhymney Railway Original Caerphilly station closed. |
| / /1871 | Rhymney Railway Connection made between the Rhymney Railway (at south facing Penalltau Branch Junction) to a west facing junction on the Taff Vale Extension. This gave access to the line as far west as Middle Duffryn Junction and also the Taff Bargoed Joint Line and Quakers Yard and Merthyr Joint Railway both of which were jointly owned by the Great Western Railway and the Rhymney Railway to compete with the Taff Vale Railway. |
| 01/04/1871 | Rhymney Railway Cardiff Adam Street terminus closed on the opening of Crockherbtown. |
| 05/09/1871 | Rhymney and Nantybwch Joint Line (London and North Western Railway, South Wales and Rhymney Railway) Joint line from Rhymney to Nantybwch opened. |
| 02/10/1871 | Rhymney and Nantybwch Joint Line (London and North Western Railway, South Wales and Rhymney Railway) Joint line from Rhymney to Nantybwch opened to public traffic. The London and North Western Railway diverts all of its Cardiff bound traffic to the Rhymney Railway route. |
| 01/10/1875 | London and North Western Railway Opens depot at Tyndall Street Goods, Cardiff, approached by 1/2 a mile of traffic from the Rhymney Railway. |
| 08/08/1878 | Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway Act passed. Promoted by J.C. Parkinson of the Alexandra Docks and Railway and Sir George Elliot of Powell Duffryn Collieries. Double track line to run from south of the Taff Vale Railway's Pontypridd station (Pontypool, Caerphilly and Newport Junction Railway) to Caerphilly (Penrhos Upper Junction) on the Rhymney Railway. Running powers over the Brecon and Merthyr Railway's Caerphilly Branch to Machen and on to Bassaleg Junction with the Alexandra Docks and Railway. Engineer Sir James W. Szlumper. |
| 01/04/1886 | Quakers Yard and Merthyr Joint Railway (Great Western Railway and Rhymney Railway) Opened. The line connected to the Crawshays Private Railway and the Vale of Neath Railway at Merthyr. Joint Great Western Railway and Rhymney Railway. |
| / /1888 | Rhymney Railway Crockherbtown renamed Cardiff (Rhymney). |
| / /1890 | Senghenydd Branch (Rhymney Railway) Act passed. |
| 01/02/1894 | Rhymney Railway Aber opened |
| 01/02/1894 | Senghenydd Branch (Rhymney Railway) Opened. |
| / /1896 | Barry Dock and Railways Obtains powers for a line from the Rhymney Valley Branch to the Senghenydd Branch of the Rhymney Railway. The connection is not built. |
| 12/08/1898 | Treforest Line (Cardiff Railway) Railway projected from Roath to Heath (on the Rhymney Railway), Walnut Tree Gap and on to Treforest (and the Taff Vale Railway). |
| 26/06/1899 | Rhymney Railway Aber renamed Abertridwr |
| / /1901 | Rhymney Railway Locomotive works transferred to east of Caerphilly station. |
| 01/08/1901 | Rhymney Valley Branch (Barry Dock and Railways) Tynycaeau Junction to Penrhos Upper Junction (with the Rhymney Railway) opened. Walnut Tree Viaduct opened. |
| / /1904 | Senghenydd Branch (Rhymney Railway) Senghenith renamed Senghenydd. |
| / /1906 | Rhymney Railway Cylla Branch partly opened from Ystrad Mynach to Penrhiwfelin. |
| / /1907 | Barry Dock and Railways Run train to the Rhymney Railway's Caerphilly station for a visit of Kind Edward VII. |
| / /1909 | Rhymney Railway Cylla Branch complete. |
| /05/1909 | Taff Vale Railway, Rhymney Railway, Cardiff Railway Merger proposed and amalgamation bills produced. (Merger fails.) |
| / /1913 | Caerphilly to Cardiff Line (Rhymney Railway) Caerphilly station re-built with four platforms and a bay platform. |
| / /1917 | Taff Vale Railway, Rhymney Railway, Cardiff Railway E.A. Prosser, formerly of the Rhymney Railway, becomes Joint General Manager. |
| / /1924 | Rhymney Railway Cardiff (Rhymney) renamed Parade. |
| 17/09/1926 | Rhymney Railway Beddau Halt renamed Aber Junction |
| 15/04/1928 | Rhymney Railway Cardiff Parade closed. The station had two platforms and a bay. Trains were diverted to Cardiff Queen Street. |
| 14/04/1930 | Rumney Railway New Tredegar (excluded) to McLarens Colliery (excluded and also served by the Rhymney Railway) closed. |
| 23/09/1953 | Rhymney Railway, London and North Western Railway, South Wales Joint line from Rhymney to Rhymney Bridge closed. |
| / /1962 | Senghenydd Branch (Rhymney Railway) Closed to freight, but retained for Windsor Colliery, south of Senghenydd. |
| 01/07/1963 | Rhymney Railway Caerphilly workshops closed. |
| 15/06/1964 | Rhymney Railway Abertridwr closed |
| 15/06/1964 | Senghenydd Branch (Rhymney Railway) Closed to passengers. |
| 05/05/1965 | Rhymney Railway Aber Halt renamed Aber |
| 06/05/1968 | Rhymney Railway Aber Junction renamed Aber Halt |
| 05/05/1969 | Rhymney Railway Aber Halt renamed Aber |
| / /1970 | Caerphilly to Cardiff Line (Rhymney Railway) Station re-built with two platforms and a bus interchange. |
| /11/1976 | Rhymney Railway Tirphil to McLarens Colliery closed. |
| / /1977 | Senghenydd Branch (Rhymney Railway) Closed completely. |
| 09/01/1977 | Rumney Railway Bargoed to Britannia Colliery closed, coal worked by the National Coal Board over their private line to Bargoed Washery connected to the Rhymney Railway at Bargoed Pits Junction. |
| 03/09/1978 | Rhymney Railway Branch to Ogilvie Colliery closed. |
| 23/05/1982 | Rhymney Railway Bargoed Pits Junction to Bargoed Washery closed. |
| 08/11/1991 | Rhymney Railway Cylla Branch closed on removal of final stocks at Penallta Colliery. |
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Neville Davies 12/04/2008
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Mark Bartlett 19/09/2009
Mark Bartlett 19/09/2009
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Ken Strachan 27/08/2019
Ken Strachan /12/1988
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John Clark //2002
Ken Strachan 19/08/2017
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Ewan Crawford 21/06/2003
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