RAILSCOT | Rhymney

Rhymney

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Rhymney

Station code: RHY National Rail
Where: Caerphilly, Wales
Opened on the Rhymney Railway.
Opened on the Sirhowy Tramroad.

Nearby stations Pontlottyn Rhymney Lower Fochriw Rhymney Bridge Pantywaun Halt Cwm Bargoed Abertysswg Dowlais Top Dowlais Top (B and M) Tredegar Troedrhiwfuwch Halt Nantybwch Nantybwch Dowlais High Street Cae Harris	Rhymney Iron Works Pidwellt Colliery Fochriw Junction Cwm Bargoed Loading Pad Fochrhiw Mine Hugh Phillips Engineering McLaren Merthyr Colliery Cwm Bargoed Junction Ty Trist Colliery Tredegar Iron Works Dowlais Furnace Tops Dowlais Coke Ovens Dowlais Iron Works Nantybwch Viaduct New Tredegar Colliery
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1802	Sirhowy Tramroad Established by Sir Charles Morgan to run from the Tredegar Iron Works to Nine Mile Point, to run via the Monmouthshire Canal Tramway from there to Newport. Tramroads were built by the partners in the iron works to run to the Trevil Quarries and from Nantybwch to the Union Iron Works at Rhymney.
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.
23/09/1953	Rhymney Railway, London and North Western Railway, South Wales Joint line from Rhymney to Rhymney Bridge closed.

News items

19/10/2014	Cardiff Queen Street railway station to stay closed on international rugby match days [WalesOnline News]