Disused railway lines and closed stations in Vale of Glamorgan

15 miles of disused railway
25 closed stations
11 stations open today
4 named lost lines

Vale of Glamorgan has 15 miles of disused railway and 25 closed stations, against 11 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.3 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Penarth Branch, with 3.7 miles of its route inside Vale of Glamorgan.

See Vale of Glamorgan’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 15 miles of lost railway in Vale of Glamorgan break down as 9.0 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 4.6 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 1.4 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 Vale of Glamorgan

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

Line	Miles in county
Penarth Branch	3.7
Cadoxton and Trehafod Line	3.2
Wenvoe Tunnel	1.1
Cardiff Central to Barry Island Line	0.4

Closed railway stations in Vale of Glamorgan

All 25 closed and former stations in Vale of Glamorgan, 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 Vale of Glamorgan

11 stations in Vale of Glamorgan still have a train service. The busiest are Barry (600,062 a year), Penarth (507,526 a year), Barry Island (446,058 a year), Cadoxton (322,908 a year) and Cogan (308,096 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

Cardiff, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf 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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