Jersey Marine railway station
Jersey Marine | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Jersey Marine, Neath Port Talbot Wales | ||||
| Grid reference | SS714936 | ||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Disused | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 14 March 1895[1] | Station opens | ||||
| 11 September 1933[1][2] | Station closes | ||||
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Jersey Marine railway station was a railway station on the Rhondda and Swansea Bay line (R&SBR) which ran from the Rhondda Valley to Swansea on the Welsh coast in the county of Glamorgan. It lay 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Swansea.
History
Jersey Marine opened in 1895 and closed in 1935[1] or 1933.[2] Briton Ferry Road station[3] lay close by on the Great Western Railway Vale of Neath line.[4] The R&SBR was absorbed by the Great Western Railway in the Grouping of the railways in 1923 as a result of the Railways Act 1921.
A four-storey octagonal tower stands near the hotel and the station site, built in the Victorian era and designed as a camera obscura at the Jersey Marine holiday resort. Workmen's halts were located to the east at Cape Platform[5] and at Baldwin's Halt[6] to the west.
Infrastructure
Jersey Marine station had a single platform on the Jersey Marine Hotel side of the line with a single shelter and ticket office. A footpath led from the vicinity of the hotel and its grounds to the platform.[7][4] A signalbox stood to the west and by 1914 a siding ran parallel to the single track main line.[4] Jersey Marine South Junction was located nearby. A Jersey Marine North Junction was also present.[8] The station site has been obliterated by a road overbridge however the line remains open.
References
- ^ a b c Butt 1995, p. 128.
- ^ a b Wignal (1983), Page 33
- ^ Butt 1995, p. 45.
- ^ a b c "Glamorgan XXIV.7, Revised: 1914, Published: 1917". Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ Butt 1995, p. 53.
- ^ Butt 1995, p. 23.
- ^ "Glamorgan XXIV.NE, Revised: 1897, Published: 1900". Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ Great Western Signal Box Register - Signalling Record Society
- Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
- A. Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Platform | Great Western Railway Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway |
Baldwin's Halt | ||