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 Pontyclun Railway Station, June 2014 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf Wales | ||||
| Coordinates | 51°31′26″N 3°23′32″W / 51.5239°N 3.3921°W | ||||
| Grid reference | ST035815 | ||||
| Managed by | Transport for Wales Rail | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | PYC | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | South Wales Railway / Cowbridge Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway / Taff Vale Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 18 June 1850 | SWR station opened as Llantrissant for Cowbridge | ||||
| 18 September 1865 | Cowbridge Rly station opened as Llantrissant | ||||
| c. 1866 | GWR (ex-SWR) station renamed Llantrissant | ||||
| by 1902 | both stations renamed Llantrisant | ||||
| 21 September 1925 | Stations amalgamated | ||||
| 2 November 1964 | Closed | ||||
| 28 September 1992 | Reopened as Pontyclun | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  0.299 million | ||||
| 2019/20 | 0.289 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 41,636 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  0.155 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.211 million | ||||
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Pontyclun railway station is an unstaffed, minor railway station in Pontyclun, in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales. The station is at street level, on Station Approach, Pontyclun. It is a stop on the South Wales Main Line, served by trains on the Maesteg Line, and occasionally by the Swanline Cardiff to Swansea regional services, as well as one early-morning daily service to Manchester and a late-night daily service to Carmarthen. The station and all trains are operated by Transport for Wales Rail. It is 181 miles 40 chains (292.1 km) from the zero point at London Paddington, measured via Stroud.[1]
The station was rebuilt and reopened under British Rail as Pontyclun on 28 September 1992.[2] It was previously called Llantrisant station and was originally two separate railway stations that were merged in 1925, those originally belonging to the South Wales Railway and the Cowbridge Railway,[3] whose successors, the Great Western Railway and the Taff Vale Railway respectively, had amalgamated in 1922.
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