General information | |||||
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Location | Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent Wales | ||||
Coordinates | 51°45′24″N 3°11′46″W / 51.7567°N 3.1961°W | ||||
Grid reference | SO175070 | ||||
Owned by | Network Rail | ||||
Managed by | Transport for Wales | ||||
Platforms | 1 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | EBV | ||||
Classification | DfT category F1 | ||||
History | |||||
Original company | Network Rail | ||||
Key dates | |||||
August 1852 | Opened as Victoria (Blaenau Gwent) | ||||
30 April 1962 | Closed | ||||
6 February 2008 | Reopened as Ebbw Vale Parkway | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 38,834 | ||||
2019/20 | 44,100 | ||||
2020/21 | 7,654 | ||||
2021/22 | 24,918 | ||||
2022/23 | 30,452 | ||||
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Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station (Welsh: Gorsaf reilffordd Parcffordd Glyn Ebwy) is a station on the Ebbw Valley Railway in Wales. The station opened on 6 February 2008 when services to and from Cardiff Central commenced after 46 years of being a freight-only line. A northwards extension of the line to a new terminus at Ebbw Vale Town opened on 17 May 2015, which accounts for the drop in usage in 2015–16. A direct service to Newport was expected to commence in 2018 following double-tracking and re-signalling works between Aberbeeg and Crosskeys, but this has now been pushed back to 2021.[1]
The station has been built on the site of the former Victoria station in the Victoria area of the Ebbw Vale conurbation. It consists of a single platform adjacent to Glan Ebbw Terrace, close to the A4046 Station Road.