Usk railway station (Great Western Railway)

Usk Station
Usk Station
	The railway tunnel near the site of the station in 2008
General information
Location	Usk, Monmouthshire; Wales
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
2 June 1856	Station opened
30 May 1955	Station closed

51°42′23″N 2°54′20″W / 51.7063°N 2.9055°W / 51.7063; -2.9055

Coleford, Monmouth, Usk
and Pontypool Railway

Legend

Ross & Monmouth Rly

Wye Valley Railway
and Coleford Railway

0-46

River Wye

0-00-

Monmouth Troy

Monmouth Troy tunnel

3-32

5-56

6-34

6-43

7-59

8-52

9-66

12-04

Usk

River Usk

14-28

ROF Glascoed

14-48

Glascoed Halt

Welsh Marches line

16-12

Little Mill Junction

Pontypool Road

Welsh Marches line

Usk (GWR) railway station is a disused railway station in the town of Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales.^[1] The station is now barely recognisable with the remains of the platforms beneath undergrowth, but the trackbed, the adjacent Usk Tunnel and road and river bridges remain extant and can be walked.^[2]

^ Stanley C Jenkins, The Ross, Monmouth and Pontypool Road Line, revised second edition 2009, ISBN 978-0-85361-692-4
^ "BBC - Huw tracks Monmouthshire railways in his Platform Shoes". BBC News. 3 December 2009. Retrieved 18 May 2015.

[stanley_jenkins-1] Stanley C Jenkins, The Ross, Monmouth and Pontypool Road Line, revised second edition 2009, ISBN 978-0-85361-692-4

[platform_shoes-2] "BBC - Huw tracks Monmouthshire railways in his Platform Shoes". BBC News. 3 December 2009. Retrieved 18 May 2015.

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