Bargoed railway station

Bargoed railway station serves the town of Bargoed in the county borough of Caerphilly, South Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney branch of the Valley Lines network. It is located close to the Bargoed Interchange bus station.

Bargoed Welsh: Bargod
General information
Location	Bargoed, Caerphilly Wales
Coordinates	51°41′34″N 3°13′48″W
Grid reference	SO150000
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BGD
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	1858
Key dates
September 2013	Signal box closed[1]
Passengers
2018/19	0.216 million
2019/20	0.198 million
2020/21	26,928
2021/22	99,540
2022/23	0.148 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

Bargoed Station in 1965

The station was opened on 31 March 1858 by the Rhymney Railway and was once a busy junction, serving lines to Newport (via Bedwas) and Brecon (the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway) as well as the current route, but the latter pair were both closed to passengers on 31 December 1962 and completely in 1963–5. The junction site and trackbed of the old Brecon line is still visible north of the station.

In 1905 it was renamed Bargoed and Aber Bargoed reverting to its original name in 1924^[2] There was another similarly name station, Aber Bargoed, opened by the Brecon & Merthyr Junction Railway & located on the now defunct Newport line north of Bargoed South Junction.

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays there are departures every 15 minutes southbound to Cardiff Central and Penarth, with an hourly service in the evenings. Sunday trains run every two hours and serve Barry Island rather than Penarth.^[3]

Northbound there is an hourly service to Rhymney on Mondays to Saturdays with a two-hourly Sunday service. The ongoing re-signalling scheme on the Valley Lines network^[4] has seen the signal box here closed and a new passing loop constructed at Tir-Phil. The plan for a half-hourly service through to/from Rhymney was due to be implemented at the December 2013 timetable change, but this has been postponed due to there being insufficient rolling stock available.

The station, which is the northernmost on the double-track section of the branch, has recently seen the reinstatement of a second platform (although it did at one time have three).

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Gilfach Fargoed		Transport for Wales Rhymney Line		Brithdir
	Disused railways
Groesfaen Colliery Platform Line and station closed		Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway		Pengam Line and station closed

Bus station

See also: Bargoed Interchange

Bargoed Interchange, opened in 2011, is a three-minute walk from the railway station.

The redeveloped bus station building was funded through the European Union Regional Development Fund, and through the Welsh Government's Targeted Match Funding, Transport Grant programme, and the Heads of the Valleys Programme.

Bus services run to Newport, Merthyr Tydfil, Blackwood, Caerphilly, Pontypridd, and Ystrad Mynach

References

1. Guppy, Anthony (20 March 2024). "The privatisation years". Feature Pictorial News. Rail Magazine. No. 1005. pp. 50–55.
2. Butt, R.V.J. (1995), The Directory of Railway Stations, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd
3. GB National Rail Timetable December 2015 - May 2016, Table 130 (Network Rail)
4. The Rail Engineer - Cardiff Area Resignalling Scheme www.therailengineer.com; Retrieved 2013-09-11

External links

• Train times and station information for Bargoed railway station from National Rail