Rhymney Railway (and related lines)

Important Dates

25 February 1858
  Opened to freight
31 March 1858
  Opened to passengers
1 February 1894
  Senghenydd Branch Opened
15 April 1928
  Cardiff Parade station closed. The station had two platforms and a bay. Trains were diverted to Queen Street
12 February 1951
  Quakers Yard and Merthyr Joint Railway (Great Western Railway and Rhymney Railway) Closed to passengers
23 September 1953
  Rhymney to Rhymney Bridge Joint Railway (London and North Western and Rhymney Railway) Closed
15 June 1964
  Senghenydd Branch Closed to passengers
15 June 1964
  Taff Bargoed Joint Line (Great Western Railway and [Rhymney Railway) Closed to passengers 


Selected Reading  

• Barrie, D. S. M.; The Rhymney Railway; Oakwood Press, Lingfield, 1952
• Chapman, Colin; The Aber Branch – Caerphilly to Senghenydd; Welsh Railways Research Circle, Newport, 2002; ISBN 0952726734
• Hutton, John; The Rhymney Railway Volume 1 The Main Line from Cardiff; Silver Link Publishing Ltd, Kettering, 2004; ISBN 1857942272
• Hutton, John; The Rhymney Railway Volume 2 Branch Lines in the Valleys; Silver Link Publishing Ltd, Kettering, 2004; ISBN 1857942280
• Kidner, R. W.; The Rhymney Railway; Oakwood Press, Headington, 1995; ISBN 0853614636
• Mountford, E. R.; Caerphilly Works 1901-1964; Roundhouse Books, 1965