Disused railway lines and closed stations in Caerphilly

76 miles of disused railway
45 closed stations
16 stations open today
27 named lost lines

Caerphilly has 76 miles of disused railway and 45 closed stations, against 16 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.8 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Taff Vale Extension, with 6.4 miles of its route inside Caerphilly.

See Caerphilly’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 76 miles of lost railway in Caerphilly break down as 55 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 14 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 3.9 miles with track still in place but no trains and 3.1 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 Caerphilly

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

Line	Miles in county
Taff Vale Extension	6.4
Bassaleg Junction and Rhymney Line	5.5
Penar Branch	5.4
Sirhowy Valley Line	5.3
Hall's Tramroad	4.7
Caerphilly Branch	3.8
Nine Mile Point Branch	2.4
Penrhos Branch	2.3
Caerphilly Branch Down Loop Line	2.0
Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway	1.7
Penallta Branch	1.4
Rhymney and Nantybwch Line	1.3
Cwmcarn Branch	1.2
Vale of Neath Line	1.2
Bargoed and Pant Line	1.1
Senghenydd Branch	1.0
Taff Bargoed Branch	0.9
Fochriw Branch	0.7
Merthyr Tredegar and Abergavenny Line	0.7
Maesycwmmer Branch	0.7
Halls Siding	0.6
Old Forge Siding	0.6
Energlyn Loop	0.5
Llanhilleth Branch	0.5
Bargoed Loop	0.4
Glyn Railway	0.4
Pwll-y-pant Viaduct	0.4

Closed railway stations in Caerphilly

All 45 closed and former stations in Caerphilly, 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 Caerphilly

16 stations in Caerphilly still have a train service. The busiest are Caerphilly (623,058 a year), Ystrad Mynach (222,144 a year), Pengam (214,248 a year), Bargoed (188,436 a year) and Newbridge (152,740 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

Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Newport, Monmouthshire, Cardiff 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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