Pontyclun railway station

Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Pontyclun

Welsh: *Pont-y-clun*
Pontyclun; Welsh: Pont-y-clun
	Pontyclun Railway Station, June 2014
General information
Location	Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf; Wales
Coordinates	51°31′26″N 3°23′32″W / 51.5239°N 3.3921°W
Grid reference	ST035815
Managed by	Transport for Wales Rail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	PYC
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	South Wales Railway / Cowbridge Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway / Taff Vale Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
18 June 1850	SWR station opened as Llantrissant for Cowbridge
18 September 1865	Cowbridge Rly station opened as Llantrissant
c. 1866	GWR (ex-SWR) station renamed Llantrissant
by 1902	both stations renamed Llantrisant
21 September 1925	Stations amalgamated
2 November 1964	Closed
28 September 1992	Reopened as Pontyclun
Passengers
2018/19	0.299 million
2019/20	0.289 million
2020/21	41,636
2021/22	0.155 million
2022/23	0.211 million
Notes
Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Pontyclun railway station is an unstaffed, minor railway station in Pontyclun, in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales. The station is at street level, on Station Approach, Pontyclun. It is a stop on the South Wales Main Line, served by trains on the Maesteg Line, and occasionally by the Swanline Cardiff to Swansea regional services, as well as one early-morning daily service to Manchester and a late-night daily service to Carmarthen. The station and all trains are operated by Transport for Wales Rail. It is 181 miles 40 chains (292.1 km) from the zero point at London Paddington, measured via Stroud.^[1]

The station was rebuilt and reopened under British Rail as Pontyclun on 28 September 1992.^[2] It was previously called Llantrisant station and was originally two separate railway stations that were merged in 1925, those originally belonging to the South Wales Railway and the Cowbridge Railway,^[3] whose successors, the Great Western Railway and the Taff Vale Railway respectively, had amalgamated in 1922.

^ Padgett, David (June 2018) [1989]. Munsey, Myles (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 3: Western & Wales (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. map 22A. ISBN 978-1-9996271-0-2.
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[1] Padgett, David (June 2018) [1989]. Munsey, Myles (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 3: Western & Wales (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. map 22A. ISBN 978-1-9996271-0-2.

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