Skewen railway station

Skewen railway station serves the village of Skewen, south Wales. It is located below street level at Station Road in Skewen, 210 miles 26 chains (338 km) from London Paddington (via Stroud).^[1] It is a stop on the South Wales Main Line, served by Transport for Wales Swanline regional trains between Swansea and Cardiff, which typically run every two hours. There is no Sunday service.

Skewen Welsh: Sgiwen
General information
Location	Skewen, Neath Port Talbot Wales
Coordinates	51.661°N 3.847°W / 51.661; -3.847
Grid reference	SS723974
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SKE
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1882	Opened as Dynevor
1904	Renamed Skewen
1910	resited
2 November 1964	Closed
27 June 1994	Reopened as Skewen on different site
Passengers
2018/19	40,466
2019/20	38,174
2020/21	9,322
2021/22	23,538
2022/23	30,328
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Facilities

The station has 2 platforms:

• Platform 1, for westbound trains towards Swansea
• Platform 2, for eastbound trains towards Cardiff Central

The station is unmanned; there is no ticket office or platform barrier. Passengers must buy their tickets from the conductor on the train. Amenities provided include waiting shelters, customer help points, digital CIS displays and timetable poster boards. Step-free access is available on both platforms via ramps from the car park and road above.^[2]

History

The first station here was opened in 1882 by the Great Western Railway as Dynevor and renamed in 1904. It was resited a little to the east in 1910 and closed by the Western Region of British Railways in 1964. The present station was opened to the west as part of the Swanline initiative in 1994.^[3]

Services

The typical service pattern is one train approximately every two hours in each direction, with some peak period extras. Trains operate mainly to Cardiff and Swansea, but some westbound services continue to Llanelli, Carmarthen and Milford Haven.

No trains stop here on Sundays. A normal weekday service operates on most bank holidays.^[4]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Neath		Transport for Wales Swanline		Llansamlet

References

1. Yonge, John; Padgett, David (August 2010) [1989]. Bridge, Mike (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 3: Western (5th ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 24A. ISBN 978-0-9549866-6-7.
2. Skewen station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 5 April 2017
3. Quick, M. E. (2005). Railway Passenger Stations in England, Scotland and Wales: a chronology. Richmond: Railway & Canal Historical Society.
4. Table 128 National Rail timetable, December 2016

External links

Media related to Skewen railway station at Wikimedia Commons

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