Disused railway lines and closed stations in Bridgend

53 miles of disused railway
20 closed stations
9 stations open today
12 named lost lines

Bridgend has 53 miles of disused railway and 20 closed stations, against 9 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.2 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Port Talbot to Pontyrhyll Line, with 7.1 miles of its route inside Bridgend.

See Bridgend’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 53 miles of lost railway in Bridgend break down as 41 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 6.5 miles with track still in place but no trains, 4.4 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 1.2 miles dismantled. 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 Bridgend

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

Line	Miles in county
Port Talbot to Pontyrhyll Line	7.1
Porthcawl Branch	7.1
Cardiff and Ogmore Branch	6.6
Garw Valley Railway	5.7
Ogmore Branch	3.8
Hendreforgan Branch	2.5
Bridgend and Abergwynfi Line	2.4
North's Navigation Railway	2.4
Ford Works Goods Line	1.9
Pencoed Branch	1.8
Vale of Glamorgan Line	1.7
Tondu Iron Works	0.6

Closed railway stations in Bridgend

All 20 closed and former stations in Bridgend, 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 Bridgend

9 stations in Bridgend still have a train service. The busiest are Bridgend (1.4 million a year), Pencoed (232,302 a year), Maesteg (156,162 a year), Pyle (104,258 a year) and Sarn (56,976 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

Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Vale of Glamorgan and Somerset.

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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