Brynmawr railway station

Brynmawr railway station was a station which served Nantyglo and Brynmawr in the Welsh county of Brecknockshire.
The first section of the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway from Abergavenny to Brynmawr was opened on 29 September 1862. The line was leased and operated by the London and North Western Railway which acquired the smaller railway company on 30 June 1866. Brynmawr station, which opened on 1 October 1862, was at the junction of lines to Blaenavon High Level, Nantyglo and Ebbw Vale . The Ebbw Vale extension opened in 1867, followed by an extension to the west by the Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway which constructed a 4 miles 6 furlongs line to Blaenavon which opened to goods traffic on 1 November 1869 and to passengers on 1 January 1870. The final extension was southwards to Nantyglo in 1906 when the Brynmawr and Western Valleys Railway provided a 1-mile-10.75-chain connection with the Great Western Railway's Abertillery branch. The new line, which was on a 1 in 47 gradient fall towards Nantyglo, was jointly worked by the Great Western and the L&NWR, with traffic exchanged between the two companies at Nantyglo. The link created the third route from Newport to Brynmawr, it also being possible to travel via Blaenavon or Nantybwch and the Sirhowy Railway.

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