Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway






Dates

03/08/1846Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Incorporated. Tramroads the Llanvihangel Railway, Grosmont Waggonway and Hereford Railway purchased.
  /  /1847Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Act for Taff Vale Extension passed. Line from Coedygric North Junction to the Taff Vale Railway at Quakers' Yard.
02/01/1854Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Abergavenny opened.
02/01/1854Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Opened from Hereford Barton to Coedygric on the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company. Worked by the London and North Western Railway.
24/07/1854Rhymney Railway
Act for a line from the Rhymney Iron Works to the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway at Hengoed.
31/12/1854Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Takes over its own working.
31/12/1855Railway Clearing House
By this date, Cork and Bandon Railway, Crieff Junction Railway, Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway, Dublin and Drogheda Railway, Forth and Clyde Junction Railway, Furness Railway, Great Southern and Western Railway, Irish South Eastern Railway, Killarney Junction Railway, Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway, Leven Railway, London and South Western Railway, London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, Monkland Railways, Monmouthshire Railway and Canal, Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway, Norfolk Railway, North and South Western Junction Railway, Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, Peebles Railway, Perth and Dunkeld Railway, Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, St Andrews Railway, Ulster and Dundalk Railway, Waterford and Kilkenny Railway and Waterford and Limerick Railway join.
  /  /1860West Midland Railway Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Worcester and Hereford Railway
Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway, Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and Worcester and Hereford Railway merge to form the West Midland Railway.
01/10/1862Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Abergavenny Junction opened.
  /  /1863Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
West Midland Railway builds platforms north of the south facing junction with the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway.
  /  /1864Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Trains start to serve the newer Abergavenny station by reversing at the south facing junction to the south of it.
20/06/1870Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Abergavenny Junction re-built further north.
  /  /1871Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Abergavenny Junction station re-built at London and North Western Railway expense.
  /  /1884Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Private coal and stores siding laid to Abergavenny Lunatic Asylum from south junction at triangle. London and North Western Railway had running powers to hospital.
19/07/1950Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Abergavenny renamed Abergavenny Monmouth Road.
09/06/1958Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Abergavenny Junction closed.
09/06/1958Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Stations between Pontypool Road and Hereford, excluding Abergavenny Monmouth Road, closed to goods.
  /05/1965Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Pontypool Road engine shed closed.
  /  /1967Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Pontypool Road engine shed demolished. Sidings here and at Coedygric largely removed.
06/05/1968Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Abergavenny Monmouth Road renamed Abergavenny.
01/05/1972Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Pontypool Road renamed Pontypool.
  /  /1994Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Pontypool renamed Pontypool and New Inn.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.









This location isn't as sylvan as it looks - there are two tracks of railway and four busy lanes of road under that concrete bridge. Now that the ...
Ken Strachan 20/04/2014
Pontypool and New Inn looking south. ...
Ewan Crawford 06/07/2006
2 of 2 images.


Stanier Pacific no 6201 Princess Elizabeth passing Little Mill Junction, Monmouthshire, with a special in September 1987. The train is ...
Ian Dinmore /09/1987
1 of 1 images.










Arriva Train Wales 175009 slows as it approaches Abergavenny with a southbound service in November 2008. ...
John McIntyre 19/11/2008
Arriva Trains Wales 175104 arrives at Abergavenny with a northbound service on 8 September 2007. ...
John McIntyre 08/09/2007
View from UK Railtours' excursion from Stevenage to Hereford passing Abergavenny signal box, on the east side of the Welsh Marches Line to the south ...
David Bosher 26/02/2022
It was all show for ex GWR 4-6-0 No 6000 'King George V' as it started its runpast at Abergavenny while heading the 'Welsh Marches Pullman' on 10 ...
Colin Kirkwood 10/10/1981
4 of 20 images. more




Looking South from the road overbridge in 1987, the remains of a platform at Llanvihangel can be seen on the right. The narrow gauge trackbed to the ...
Ken Strachan /04/1987
1 of 1 images.




Northbound train passes the former station at Pontrillas. ...
Ewan Crawford //
A view of Pontrilas, looking north-east from above Pontrilas Tunnel in November 2008, with a southbound Class 158 held at the signal for the block ...
John McIntyre 19/11/2008
Southbound through Pontrillas, once junction for Hay. ...
Ewan Crawford 26/06/2003
A northbound train passes Pontrilas box (despite the name, just inside England) between Abergavenny and Hereford in the summer of 2008. The sawmill in ...
David Spaven //2008
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Arriva Trains Wales 175105 heads north between Abergavenny and Hereford, just over a mile to the south of the former St Devereux station, in November ...
John McIntyre 18/11/2008
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The signalbox and gates at Tram Inn in August 1968. ...
Doug Nicholls /08/1968
The former Tram Inn station building (now used as part of Mill Garage) and signal box on the ex-GWR line between Hereford and Abergavenny.
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John McIntyre 18/11/2008
Looking east across the level crossing at Tram Inn on 18 November 2008, with the station and signal box on the left and the old Tram Inn itself ...
John McIntyre 18/11/2008
3 of 3 images.




Collett 2-6-2T no 4135 on shed at Hereford in August 1962. ...
K A Gray 13/08/1962
Collett 0-6-0 no 3203 stands on Hereford shed in September 1958. ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/09/1958
Collett 4-6-0 no 7828 Odney Manor on Hereford shed in September 1958. See image 40304 ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/09/1958
Ex-GWR 4-6-0 no 6992 Aborfield Hall photographed on the turntable at Hereford shed (85C) in the late 1950s. ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //
4 of 4 images.


Looking north from Hereford Barton. The line ran straight ahead to Shrewsbury. The line to the right runs to the present Hereford station. ...
Ewan Crawford 06/07/2006
Looking south to the site of Hereford Barton station. ...
Ewan Crawford 06/07/2006
2 of 2 images.