Disused railway lines and closed stations in Neath Port Talbot

81 miles of disused railway
41 closed stations
5 stations open today
28 named lost lines

Neath Port Talbot has 81 miles of disused railway and 41 closed stations, against 5 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 8.2 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Line, with 15 miles of its route inside Neath Port Talbot.

See Neath Port Talbot’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 81 miles of lost railway in Neath Port Talbot break down as 64 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 12 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 4.2 miles with track still in place but no trains. 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 Neath Port Talbot

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

Line	Miles in county
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Line	15
South Wales Mineral Railway	7.7
South Wales Mineral Junction Branch	5.3
Bridgend and Abergwynfi Line	3.8
Bryn Goytre Cycleway	2.9
Vale of Neath Railway	2.8
Margam Yard Line	2.7
Ogmore Vale Extension Railway	2.7
Pleasant View	2.1
Rhondda Tunnel	1.9
Port Talbot Docks Branch	1.8
Pontrhydyfen Branch	1.7
Brecon Forest Tramroad	1.7
Whitworth Branch	1.6
Port Talbot to Pontyrhyll Line	1.6
Ystradgynlais Branch	0.9
Blaenavon Branch	0.8
North Bank Junction to Talbot Wharf Line	0.7
DI	0.7
Gelli Tunnel	0.6
Aberavon Branch	0.6
Cwmcerwyn Tunnel	0.6
Margam West Curve	0.6
Newlands Loop	0.5
Port Talbot to Pontyrhyll	0.4
Port Wallaroo Dock Line	0.4
Swansea District Line	0.4
DO	0.3

Closed railway stations in Neath Port Talbot

All 41 closed and former stations in Neath Port Talbot, 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 Neath Port Talbot

5 stations in Neath Port Talbot still have a train service. The busiest are Neath (838,778 a year), Port Talbot Parkway (612,070 a year), Skewen (43,980 a year), Briton Ferry (41,642 a year) and Baglan (35,200 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

Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea, Carmarthenshire 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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