Disused railway lines and closed stations in Merthyr Tydfil

27 miles of disused railway
17 closed stations
5 stations open today
18 named lost lines

Merthyr Tydfil has 27 miles of disused railway and 17 closed stations, against 5 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 3.4 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Taff Bargoed Branch, with 6.8 miles of its route inside Merthyr Tydfil.

See Merthyr Tydfil’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 Merthyr Tydfil break down as 14 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 7.0 miles with track still in place but no trains and 6.3 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 Merthyr Tydfil

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

Line	Miles in county
Taff Bargoed Branch	6.8
Dowlais Railway	1.5
Quakers Yard and Merthyr Line	1.4
Merthyr Vale Branch	0.9
Abernant Tunnel	0.9
Brecon and Dowlais Line	0.9
Bargoed and Pant Line	0.8
Dowlais Steel Works Branch	0.8
Llwyncelyn Branch	0.8
Vale of Neath Line	0.8
Merthyr Branch	0.7
Furnace Tops Branch	0.6
Morlais Junction to Rhydycar Junction	0.6
Morlais Tunnel	0.6
Merthyr Goods Branch	0.6
Quakers Yard Branch	0.5
Ivor Iron Works	0.4
Merthyr Tredegar and Abergavenny Line	0.4

Closed railway stations in Merthyr Tydfil

All 17 closed and former stations in Merthyr Tydfil, 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 Merthyr Tydfil

5 stations in Merthyr Tydfil still have a train service. The busiest are Merthyr Tydfil (412,970 a year), Merthyr Vale (59,920 a year), Quakers Yard (53,228 a year), Troed-y-rhiw (40,862 a year) and Pentre-bach (30,388 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

Rhondda Cynon Taf, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly 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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