Disused railway lines and closed stations in Blaenau Gwent

27 miles of disused railway
17 closed stations
3 stations open today
9 named lost lines

Blaenau Gwent has 27 miles of disused railway and 17 closed stations, against 3 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 5.7 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Western Valleys Line, with 7.3 miles of its route inside Blaenau Gwent.

See Blaenau Gwent’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 27 miles of lost railway in Blaenau Gwent break down as 25 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable and 2.2 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Blaenau Gwent

9 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Blaenau Gwent; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Western Valleys Line	7.3
Sirhowy Valley Line	5.0
Merthyr Tredegar and Abergavenny Line	4.7
Beaufort and Ebbw Vale High Level Line	1.4
Brynmawr and Blaenavon Line	1.2
Merthyr and Abergavenny Railway	1.1
Llanhilleth Branch	0.8
Ebbw Vale Branch	0.5
Brynmawr and Nantyglo Line	0.4

Closed railway stations in Blaenau Gwent

All 17 closed and former stations in Blaenau Gwent, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Blaenau Gwent

3 stations in Blaenau Gwent still have a train service. The busiest are Ebbw Vale Town (248,760 a year), Llanhilleth (94,018 a year) and Ebbw Vale Parkway (40,736 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Torfaen, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Monmouthshire and Powys.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s principal area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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