Disused railway lines and closed stations in Monmouthshire

52 miles of disused railway
34 closed stations
4 stations open today
15 named lost lines

Monmouthshire has 52 miles of disused railway and 34 closed stations, against 4 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 8.5 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk & Pontypool Railway, with 10 miles of its route inside Monmouthshire.

See Monmouthshire’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 52 miles of lost railway in Monmouthshire break down as 43 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 7.8 miles with track still in place but no trains and 1.3 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 Monmouthshire

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

Line	Miles in county
Coleford, Monmouth, Usk & Pontypool Railway	10
Wye Valley Railway	7.2
RAF Caerwent	5.9
Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway	5.1
Ross and Monmouth Railway	4.0
Heads of the Valleys Line	3.3
Caerwent Branch	2.4
Merthyr Tredegar and Abergavenny Line	2.4
Merthyr and Abergavenny Railway	1.5
Coleford Railway	1.4
Peregrine Path	1.3
Sudbrook Branch	1.2
Wye Valley Line	1.1
Glascoed ROF Branch	0.9
Brynmawr and Blaenavon Line	0.8

Closed railway stations in Monmouthshire

All 34 closed and former stations in Monmouthshire, 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 Monmouthshire

4 stations in Monmouthshire still have a train service. The busiest are Abergavenny (423,316 a year), Chepstow (239,434 a year), Severn Tunnel Junction (212,668 a year) and Caldicot (87,972 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

Torfaen, Newport, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Bristol, Cardiff, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.

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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