Gilfach Fargoed railway station is a railway station serving the village of Gilfach, in Caerphilly county borough, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network.
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| Location | Gilfach, Caerphilly Wales | ||||
| Coordinates | 51°41′03″N 3°13′39″W / 51.6842°N 3.2274°W | ||||
| Grid reference | ST152990 | ||||
| Managed by | Transport for Wales | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | GFF | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
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| April 1908 | Opened | ||||
| 6 July 2020 | Temporarily closed | ||||
| 21 August 2021 | Reopened | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  4,972 | ||||
| 2020/21 |  74 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 1,158 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 3,902 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 4,096 | ||||
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The platforms are short (16 m or 52 ft)[1] and can barely accommodate a British Rail Class 153 train, due to its small size it is affectionately nicknamed "Gilfach International". Passengers can only alight from the front doors of any train calling here, so the conductor on longer trains must give passengers advance notice so that they have time to move towards the front set of doors.
History
editBuilt as a halt by the Rhymney Railway in 1908 for recently introduced steam railmotors, some 50 years after the line first opened. Although very close, the halt did not serve the Brecon and Merthyr Railway which passed behind, on its way to Bargoed south Junction.
Services
editMondays to Saturdays there is an hourly service between Bargoed and Penarth. Sundays there is a two-hourly service between Rhymney and Barry Island.[2]
Due to the platforms not being long enough to accommodate social distancing measures introduced because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the station was temporarily closed between 6 July 2020 and 21 August 2021.[3]
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Pengam | Transport for Wales Rhymney Line |
Bargoed | ||
References
edit- ^ "Timetable Planning Rules" (PDF). Network Rail. 6 February 2015. pp. 225, 226. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
- ^ Table 130 National Rail timetable, May 2016
- ^ "Coronavirus: Transport for Wales closes stations with short platforms". BBC News. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
External links
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- Train times and station information for Gilfach Fargoed railway station from National Rail
- Video coverage and history of Gilfach Fargoed Station
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