Cwmbran train station
You can reach 75 stations directly from Cwmbran on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Abergavenny, with 58 trains a day.
Address: Somerset Road, Cwmbran, NP44 1QX
Cwmbran is the nearest station for postcodes in NP44. Check your own postcode.
- 75 direct destinations
- 944th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 76 parking spaces
- 5 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Cwmbran
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abergavenny | 58 | 57 | 31 |
| Cardiff Central | 58 | 57 | 31 |
| Newport | 58 | 57 | 31 |
| Hereford | 57 | 57 | 31 |
| Ludlow | 55 | 54 | 29 |
| Shrewsbury | 55 | 54 | 29 |
| Leominster | 47 | 46 | 26 |
| Craven Arms | 41 | 42 | 17 |
| Church Stretton | 41 | 42 | 16 |
| Pontypool and New Inn | 41 | 40 | 24 |
| Crewe | 37 | 36 | 24 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 30 | 31 | 23 |
| Stockport | 30 | 31 | 22 |
| Wilmslow | 30 | 31 | 23 |
| Nantwich | 26 | 24 | 3 |
| Whitchurch | 22 | 20 | 3 |
| Chester | 19 | 18 | 5 |
| Gobowen | 16 | 15 | 4 |
| Wrexham General | 16 | 15 | 4 |
| Bridgend | 15 | 12 | 21 |
| Bangor | 15 | 15 | 4 |
| Chirk | 15 | 15 | 4 |
| Colwyn Bay | 15 | 16 | 4 |
| Flint | 15 | 16 | 4 |
| Holyhead | 15 | 15 | 4 |
| Llandudno Junction | 15 | 16 | 4 |
| Neath | 15 | 12 | 21 |
| Prestatyn | 15 | 16 | 4 |
| Port Talbot Parkway | 15 | 12 | 21 |
| Rhyl | 15 | 16 | 4 |
| Ruabon | 15 | 15 | 4 |
| Carmarthen | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Llanelli | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Llanfairpwll | 14 | 15 | 4 |
| Swansea | 14 | 12 | 21 |
| Valley | 14 | 15 | 3 |
| Bodorgan | 13 | 13 | 2 |
| Gowerton | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Pembrey and Burry Port | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Rhosneigr | 13 | 14 | 3 |
and 35 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Cwmbran
Cwmbran is on the Welsh Marches Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Cwmbran station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Cwmbran station on 155 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 29 paths on the Wednesday, 10 paths on the Saturday and 8 paths on the Sunday. 23 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 23:00 to 00:00 on the Thursday, with 6 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Cwmbran station is
431,856 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 944th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Cwmbran and Cardiff Central than any other pair: 214,526 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.
Sundays
Sunday is a different railway here: 51 stations instead of 75, a drop of about 32%. Saturday runs to 55.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Cwmbran loses 2 destinations including Milford Haven, Johnston.
Nearest other stations
- Pontypool and New Inn 2.8 miles
- Newport 4.8 miles
- Rogerstone 4.8 miles
- Risca and Pontymister 4.8 miles
- Crosskeys 5.3 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Cwmbran, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Lower Pontnewydd · 0.2 miles
- Upper Pontnewydd · 0.5 miles
- Cwmbran (GWR) · 0.7 miles
- Cwmbran (MR&C) · 0.7 miles
- Pontrhydyrun Halt · 0.8 miles
- Sebastopol · 1.3 miles
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Facilities at Cwmbran station
Cwmbran is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:40 to 18:00 · Saturday: 08:00 to 18:00 · Sunday: closed
Toilets
Parking at Cwmbran station
- Cwmbran Station Car Park 76 spaces, 2 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 8 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 30 July 2026.
Getting to Cwmbran station
Cwmbran station is in Torfaen - Torfaen, Wales, and is run by TfW Rail.
The nearest motorway junction is M4 J26 (Malpas Interchange), 3.8 miles south.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Cwmbran Station Car Park.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Cwmbran station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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