Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station

Ebbw Vale Parkway

Welsh: Parcffordd Glyn Ebwy
National Rail
General information
LocationEbbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent
Wales
Coordinates51°45′24″N 3°11′46″W / 51.7567°N 3.1961°W / 51.7567; -3.1961
Grid referenceSO175070
Owned byNetwork Rail
Managed byTransport for Wales
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeEBV
ClassificationDfT category F1
History
Original companyNetwork Rail
Key dates
August 1852Opened as Victoria (Blaenau Gwent)
30 April 1962Closed
6 February 2008Reopened as Ebbw Vale Parkway
Passengers
2018/19Decrease 38,834
2019/20Increase 44,100
2020/21Decrease 7,654
2021/22Increase 24,918
2022/23Increase 30,452
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station (Welsh: Gorsaf reilffordd Parcffordd Glyn Ebwy) is a station on the Ebbw Valley Railway in Wales. The station opened on 6 February 2008 when services to and from Cardiff Central commenced after 46 years of being a freight-only line. A northwards extension of the line to a new terminus at Ebbw Vale Town opened on 17 May 2015, which accounts for the drop in usage in 2015–16. A direct service to Newport was expected to commence in 2018 following double-tracking and re-signalling works between Aberbeeg and Crosskeys, but this has now been pushed back to 2021.[1]

The station has been built on the site of the former Victoria station in the Victoria area of the Ebbw Vale conurbation. It consists of a single platform adjacent to Glan Ebbw Terrace, close to the A4046 Station Road.

  1. ^ Craig, Ian. "Restoration of Newport-Ebbw Vale rail link on track for 2021". South Wales Argus.

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