Skewen train station

You can reach 51 stations directly from Skewen on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Baglan, with 29 trains a day.

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• 51 direct destinations
• 2,093rd busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free throughout
• 29 parking spaces
• 9 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Skewen

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 11 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Skewen

Skewen is on the South Wales Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Skewen station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Skewen station on 9 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 2 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.

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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Skewen station is

43,980 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,093rd busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Skewen and Swansea than any other pair: 20,416 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

There is no Sunday service from Skewen. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Skewen gains 1 destination including Bristol Temple Meads and loses 2 including Milford Haven, Johnston.

Nearest other stations

• Llansamlet 1.7 miles
• Neath 1.7 miles
• Briton Ferry 2.0 miles
• Baglan 3.6 miles
• Swansea 4.7 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Skewen, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Cardonnel Halt · 0.7 miles
• Neath Abbey · 0.7 miles
• Llandarcy Platform · 0.8 miles
• Neath Riverside · 1.6 miles
• Court Sart · 1.8 miles
• Llansamlet · 1.8 miles

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Facilities at Skewen station

Skewen is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.

Parking at Skewen station

• Station Car Park 29 spaces, 2 accessible
  free

From National Rail's station record, last updated 30 January 2026.

Getting to Skewen station

Skewen station is in Neath Port Talbot - Castell-nedd Port Talbot, Wales, and is run by TfW Rail.

The nearest motorway junction is M4 J43 (Llandarcy), 0.6 miles south.

9 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Cresci's.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Skewen 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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