Nantybwch

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Tredegar (Nantybwch)
Nantybwch

Opened on the Sirhowy Tramroad.



Chronology Dates

  /  /1802Sirhowy Tramroad
Established by Sir Charles Morgan to run from the Tredegar Iron Works to Nine Mile Point, to run via the Monmouthshire Canal Tramway from there to Newport. Tramroads were built by the partners in the iron works to run to the Trevil Quarries and from Nantybwch to the Union Iron Works at Rhymney.
01/03/1864London and North Western Railway, South Wales
Extension from Brynmawr to Nantybwch.
05/09/1871Rhymney and Nantybwch Joint Line (London and North Western Railway, South Wales and Rhymney Railway)
Joint line from Rhymney to Nantybwch opened.
02/10/1871Rhymney and Nantybwch Joint Line (London and North Western Railway, South Wales and Rhymney Railway)
Joint line from Rhymney to Nantybwch opened to public traffic. The London and North Western Railway diverts all of its Cardiff bound traffic to the Rhymney Railway route.
  /12/1927Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway
14 locomotives snowed in along length of line. Train snowed in at Nantybwch for 12 hours at 1165 feet.