Baglan Sands Halt railway station
Baglan Sands Halt railway station was a railway station on the Rhondda and Swansea Bay line which ran from the Rhondda Valley to Swansea on the Welsh coast in the county of Glamorgan.
Baglan Sands | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Baglan, Neath Port Talbot Wales |
| Grid reference | SS741925 |
| Platforms | 1 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 1 May 1933[1] | Station opens |
| 26 September 1938[1] | Station closes |
| 29 May 1939[1] | Station reopens |
| 25 September 1939 | Station closes[1][2] |
History
The station was opened in 1933 by the Great Western Railway.[1] A number of rifle ranges were located in the Baglan Burrow area facing towards Witford Point,[3] established since WWI[4] and then greatly expanded with an access road from near Baglan School. The range is recorded from 1898.[5]
Baglan Sands Halt opened in 1933 and closed in 1938, only to reopen briefly between May and September 1939.[1][2] The OS map published in 1964 shows the halt and indicates that it was disused.[6] and only a single rifle range is shown. A 'Baglan Rifle Range Association' is recorded in the National Archives.[7]
The halt was 16m 30c from the Rhondda & Swansea Bay Junction.[8] The site is now occupied by a factory and the Rhondda and Swansea Bay line has been closed since 1962.
A Baglan railway station was opened in 1996 on the old Great Western Railway's South Wales Main Line.
Notes
- Butt 1995, p. 22.
- Wignal (1983), Page 4
- OS Map 1:1m 1920s - 1940s
- Glamorgan XXIV.8, Revised: 1914, Published: 1918
- RCAHMW - Historic Place Names
- SS79SW & part of SS78NW - A, Surveyed / Revised: Pre-1930 to 1964, Published: 1964
- National Archives
- "Signalling Record Society". Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
References
- Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberavon Town | Great Western Railway Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway |
Briton Ferry East |