Crumlin Low Level

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Crumlin
Crumlin Low Level

Opened on the Monmouthshire Canal Tramway.
Opened on the Beaufort Ironworks Tramway.

Chronology Dates

  /  /1799Monmouthshire Canal
Opened from Newport Bridge to Crindau and from there to both Crumlin and Pontnewynydd. Engineer; Thomas Dadford.
  /  /1799Beaufort Ironworks Tramway
Opened from Crumlin to Beaufort Iron Works.
26/06/1802Monmouthshire Canal Tramway
Act passed for the Monmouthshire Canal to build a line from Newport to Nine Mile Point and from Risca to Crumlin to join the Beaufort Ironworks Tramway.
  /  /1805Monmouthshire Canal Tramway
Opened, excluding Risca to Crumlin.
  /  /1829Monmouthshire Canal Tramway
Risca to Crumlin opened.
01/06/1857Taff Vale Extension
Line extended from Crumlin to Tredegar Junction to meet the Sirhowy Tramroad.
28/11/1994Cross Harbour Link
Opens to link Yorkgate, temporary terminus of the former Belfast and Ballymena Railway, to the new Lagan Junction on the Belfast Central Railway. The line is largely on viaducts and is single track with a passing loop at Donegall Quay [Belfast], site of a planned station. Londonderry trains cease running via Crumlin and return to the route via Whiteabbey. The viaduct, 4,675ft, is named for William Dargan.
06/12/2008Beaufort Ironworks Tramway
Ebbw Vale Parkway, Llanhilleth, Crumlin, Crosskeys, Risca & Pontymister and Rogerstone re-opened. Access was from Cardiff, to the west, rather than the nearby Newport.