Baglan Sands Halt railway station

Baglan Sands Halt railway station was a railway station on the Rhondda and Swansea Bay line which ran from the Rhondda Valley to Swansea on the Welsh coast in the county of Glamorgan.

Baglan Sands
LocationBaglan, Neath Port Talbot
Wales
Grid referenceSS741925
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyRhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
Pre-groupingRhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
1 May 1933[1]Station opens
26 September 1938[1]Station closes
29 May 1939[1]Station reopens
25 September 1939Station closes[1][2]

History
The 1996 Baglan railway station

The station was opened in 1933 by the Great Western Railway.[1] A number of rifle ranges were located in the Baglan Burrow area facing towards Witford Point,[3] established since WWI[4] and then greatly expanded with an access road from near Baglan School. The range is recorded from 1898.[5]

Baglan Sands Halt opened in 1933 and closed in 1938, only to reopen briefly between May and September 1939.[1][2] The OS map published in 1964 shows the halt and indicates that it was disused.[6] and only a single rifle range is shown. A 'Baglan Rifle Range Association' is recorded in the National Archives.[7]

The halt was 16m 30c from the Rhondda & Swansea Bay Junction.[8] The site is now occupied by a factory and the Rhondda and Swansea Bay line has been closed since 1962.

A Baglan railway station was opened in 1996 on the old Great Western Railway's South Wales Main Line.

Notes
  1. Butt 1995, p. 22.
  2. Wignal (1983), Page 4
  3. OS Map 1:1m 1920s - 1940s
  4. Glamorgan XXIV.8, Revised: 1914, Published: 1918
  5. RCAHMW - Historic Place Names
  6. SS79SW & part of SS78NW - A, Surveyed / Revised: Pre-1930 to 1964, Published: 1964
  7. National Archives
  8. Signalling Record Society

References
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.
  • Railscot
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Aberavon Town   Great Western Railway
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway		   Briton Ferry East


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