Disused railway lines and closed stations in Swansea

28 miles of disused railway
37 closed stations
4 stations open today
10 named lost lines

Swansea has 28 miles of disused railway and 37 closed stations, against 4 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 9.2 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Clyne Cycle Path, with 3.0 miles of its route inside Swansea.

See Swansea’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 28 miles of lost railway in Swansea break down as 21 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 3.6 miles with track still in place but no trains and 2.9 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 Swansea

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

Line	Miles in county
Clyne Cycle Path	3.0
Swansea Bay Cycle Path	1.8
Pontardawe Branch	1.4
Penclawdd Branch	1.3
North Gower Trail	1.2
Swansea Line	1.2
Morriston and Swansea Vale Branch	0.6
Morriston Branch	0.4
Six Pit Junction/Swansea Valley Junction	0.4
Gwydr Place	0.4

Closed railway stations in Swansea

All 37 closed and former stations in Swansea, 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 Swansea

4 stations in Swansea still have a train service. The busiest are Swansea (2.3 million a year), Gowerton (158,620 a year), Llansamlet (38,484 a year) and Pontarddulais (6,412 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

Neath Port Talbot, 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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