Abergavenny

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Abergavenny

Station code: AGV National Rail
Where: Monmouthshire, Wales
Opened on the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway.




Chronology Dates

  /  /1812Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal
Opened from Pontymoile on the Monmouthshire Canal to Abergavenny and Brecon.
02/01/1854Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Abergavenny opened.
29/09/1862Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway
Opened from Abergavenny to Brynmawr.
  /  /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.
  /  /1867London and North Western Railway
Act for north facing junction at Abergavenny for the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway.
22/06/1870Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway
North facing junction at Abergavenny opened. New station opened at junction and 1863 station closed and replaced by sidings.
  /  /1877Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway
Line doubled between Abergavenny and Brynmawr requiring new tunnel bores at Clydach and Gelli Felen.
  /  /1896Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway
Abergavenny engine shed enlarged.
19/07/1950Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Abergavenny renamed Abergavenny Monmouth Road.
  /11/1954Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway
Abergavenny engine shed becomes sign-on point.
04/01/1958Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway
Abergavenny engine shed closed.
06/05/1968Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Abergavenny Monmouth Road renamed Abergavenny.

News items

24/02/2022Timber 'log trains' return to Devon [DevonLive]
23/02/2022Seeing the wood for the trees: Pilot project takes more lorries off the roads as timber freight train runs for the first time in 18 years [Network Rail]
01/11/2019Abergavenny to Hereford line to reopen ahead of schedule (updated) [Network Rail]