RAILSCOT | Nine Mile Point

Station

Nine Mile Point

Opened on the Monmouthshire Canal Tramway.
Opened on the Sirhowy Tramroad.

Nearby stations Pont Lawrence Halt Machen White Hart Halt (Down) White Hart Halt (Up) Cross Keys Trethomas Cwmcarn Fountain Bridge Halt Chapel Bridge Waterloo Halt Ynysddu Risca Risca [1st] Church Road [RR] Wyllie Halt	Nine Mile Point Colliery Risca Colliery Machen Locomotive Works Bovil Colliery Lime Kiln Junction Diamond Llantwit Colliery Drift Mine Ynysddu Lower Goods Machen Ballast Siding Machen Quarry Bedwas Colliery Cwm-y-glo Colliery Gwaunybara Junction Abercarn Colliery Cwmcarn Colliery Wyllie Colliery
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

/ /1802	Sirhowy 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.
26/06/1802	Monmouthshire Canal Tramway Act passed for the Monmouthshire Canal to build a line from Newport to Nine Mile Point and from Risca to Crumlin to join the Beaufort Ironworks Tramway.
/11/1855	Monmouthshire Canal Tramway Risca to Nine Mile Point completed.
/ /1900	Penllwyn Tramway, London and North Western Railway A new spur, west of Nine Mile Point, is opened to the Penllwyn Tramway by the owners, the London and North Western Railway to give access to Nine Mile Point Colliery. Formerly this tramway was accessible by a point west of Nine Mile Point and thus in Great Western Railway territory.