Risca

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Risca

Opened on the Monmouthshire Canal Tramway.


Chronology Dates

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.
  /  /1805Halls Tramway
Opened between Risca and Argoed (near Manmoel Colliery) by Benjamin Hall (owner of colliery and tramway), son in law of Richard Crawshay of Cyfartha.
  /  /1805Monmouthshire Canal Tramway
Opened, excluding Risca to Crumlin.
  /  /1829Monmouthshire Canal Tramway
Risca to Crumlin opened.
  /11/1855Monmouthshire Canal Tramway
Risca to Nine Mile Point completed.
  /06/1910Monmouthshire Canal Tramway
Quadruple track is extended north to Risca.