Middle Duffryn Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Middle Duffryn JunctionOpened on the Aberdare Extension (Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway).
Opened on the Aberdare Valley Railway.
Chronology Dates
| 18/04/1864 | Taff Vale Extension Line extended from Quaker's Yard (Low Level) to meet the Vale of Neath Railway at Middle Duffryn Junction. Opened for goods. |
| 18/04/1864 | Taff Vale Extension Opened from Quakers Yard to Middle Duffryn Junction to meet the Vale of Neath Railway. |
| / /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. |
| 29/11/1971 | Vale of Neath Railway Aberdare High Level to Middle Duffryn Junction closed. |
| 29/11/1971 | Taff Vale Extension Middle Duffryn Junction to Mountain Ash sold to the National Coal Board. |
