Disused railway lines and closed stations in Newport

36 miles of disused railway
13 closed stations
3 stations open today
15 named lost lines

Newport has 36 miles of disused railway and 13 closed stations, against 3 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 4.3 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Monmouthshire Eastern Valleys Line, with 3.2 miles of its route inside Newport.

See Newport’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 36 miles of lost railway in Newport break down as 28 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 8.4 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable. 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 Newport

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

Line	Miles in county
Monmouthshire Eastern Valleys Line	3.2
Park Mile to Alexandra Docks	2.5
Newport Town Dock West Side	2.2
Newport Town Dock East Side	2.1
Castle Works	1.6
Monmouthshire Bank Sidings	1.2
Newport Dock Street Branch	0.9
Llanarth Branch	0.7
Nettlefolds Branch	0.7
Newport Monmouthshire Loop	0.7
Rogerstone Sidings	0.7
Godfrey Road Stabling Yard	0.5
Newport Old Dock Branch	0.5
Western Valleys Line	0.5
Uskmouth Branch	0.4

Closed railway stations in Newport

All 13 closed and former stations in Newport, 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 Newport

3 stations in Newport still have a train service. The busiest are Newport (2.8 million a year), Pye Corner (124,914 a year) and Rogerstone (87,268 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, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Cardiff 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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