Disused railway lines and closed stations in Rhondda Cynon Taf

91 miles of disused railway
55 closed stations
22 stations open today
32 named lost lines

Rhondda Cynon Taf has 91 miles of disused railway and 55 closed stations, against 22 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.5 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Ely Valley Branch, with 9.5 miles of its route inside Rhondda Cynon Taf.

See Rhondda Cynon Taf’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 91 miles of lost railway in Rhondda Cynon Taf break down as 64 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 21 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 5.2 miles with track still in place but no trains and 1.4 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 Rhondda Cynon Taf

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

Line	Miles in county
Ely Valley Branch	9.5
Llantrisant Branch	5.1
Caerphilly and Pontypridd Line	4.8
Cadoxton and Trehafod Line	3.7
Merthyr Branch	3.4
Treferig Branch	2.7
Mwyndy Branch	2.5
Hendreforgan Branch	2.4
Common Branch	2.3
Dare Valley Branch	2.3
Vale of Neath Railway	2.2
Maerdy Branch	2.1
Cardiff Railway	1.9
Penrhos Branch	1.7
Vale of Neath Line	1.6
Blaenrhondda Branch	1.6
Cardiff and Ogmore Branch	1.4
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Line	1.4
Walnut Tree Branch	1.3
Llantrisant No. 1 Branch	1.0
Taff Trail	1.0
Bwllfa Dare Branch	0.9
Treherbert Branch	0.9
Cardiff Railway Company	0.7
Main Avenue	0.6
Powell Dyrffryn Sidings	0.6
Abernant Tunnel	0.6
Penrhos Loop	0.6
Tre-Aman Sidings	0.4
Hirwaun Ponds Siding	0.4
Fifth Avenue	0.3
Penrhos Cutting	0.3

Closed railway stations in Rhondda Cynon Taf

All 55 closed and former stations in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 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 Rhondda Cynon Taf

22 stations in Rhondda Cynon Taf still have a train service. The busiest are Pontypridd (779,980 a year), Trefforest (712,434 a year), Aberdare (341,438 a year), Pontyclun (277,812 a year) and Taffs Well (256,722 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

Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Neath Port Talbot, Vale of Glamorgan, 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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