Disused railway lines and closed stations in Torfaen

47 miles of disused railway
24 closed stations
2 stations open today
15 named lost lines

Torfaen has 47 miles of disused railway and 24 closed stations, against 2 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 12.0 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Monmouthshire Eastern Valleys Line, with 12 miles of its route inside Torfaen.

See Torfaen’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 47 miles of lost railway in Torfaen break down as 39 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable and 8.0 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 Torfaen

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

Line	Miles in county
Monmouthshire Eastern Valleys Line	12
Talywain Branch	3.4
Taff Vale Extension	3.4
Brynmawr and Blaenavon Line	3.2
Varteg Hill Colliery Branch	3.0
Glyn Railway	2.7
Cwmffrwd Branch	2.0
Cwmnantddu Branch	1.9
Cwmffrwdoer Branch	1.7
Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway	0.8
Cwmbran Branch	0.8
Panteg Goods Lines	0.8
Milfraen Branch	0.4
Pontypool Road Middle Junction to North Junction	0.3
Pontypool Road South Junction to Coedygric Junction	0.3

Closed railway stations in Torfaen

All 24 closed and former stations in Torfaen, 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 Torfaen

2 stations in Torfaen still have a train service. The busiest are Cwmbran (431,856 a year) and Pontypool and New Inn (127,216 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

Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Blaenau Gwent, Newport 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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