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Neath

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Neath

Station code: NTH National Rail
Where: Neath Port Talbot, Wales
Opened on the South Wales Railway.

Nearby stations Neath [1st] Neath [2nd] Neath Canal Side Neath Riverside Neath (NB) Neath Abbey Cadoxton Terrace Halt Court Sart Cardonnel Halt Skewen [2nd] Penscynon Halt Skewen Briton Ferry Briton Ferry [2nd] Aberdylais Halt	Neath and Brecon Junction Neath Shed Neath Junction Neath Junction (RSB) Dynevor Junction Court Sart Junction Cardonnel Junction Crythan Goods Skewen East Junction Jersey Marine Junction North Jersey Marine Junction South Llandarcy Oil Refinery Baglan Junction Blaenavon Junction Tourist/other Brunels Dock
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

03/08/1846	Vale of Neath Railway Act passed for broad gauge line from Neath to Aberdare and a branch to Merthyr.
24/09/1851	Vale of Neath Railway Opened from Neath to Aberdare for passengers.
/ /1862	Vale of Neath Railway Plan to lay third rail to allow standard gauge trains to run from Pontypool, via the Taff Vale Extension, to Neath.
16/05/1874	Vale of Neath Railway Train heading towards Neath breaks loose and runs into Merthyr station. It collides with a Brecon and Merthyr Railway train. One killed and fifty injured.

News items

29/11/2021	Global Centre for Rail Excellence, Wales [The Architects' Journal]
07/02/2019	New Swansea railway station 'ticket to opportunity' [BBC News]
25/06/2018	£100m rail test complex plans for Neath valley [BBC News]
03/05/2015	Study to look at Blaencwm railway tunnel reopening [BBC News]

Books

A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: South Wales v. 12 (Regional railway history series)