Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station

Ebbw Vale Parkway

Welsh: Parcffordd Glyn Ebwy

General information

Location

Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent
Wales

Coordinates

51°45′24″N 3°11′46″W / 51.7567°N 3.1961°W

Owned by

Managed by

Platforms

Other information

Station code

EBV

Classification

DfT category F1

History

Original company

Network Rail

Key dates

August 1852

Opened as Victoria (Blaenau Gwent)

30 April 1962

Closed

6 February 2008

Reopened as Ebbw Vale Parkway

Passengers

2019/20

44,100

2020/21

7,654

2021/22

24,918

2022/23

30,452

2023/24

28,534

Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station (Welsh: Gorsaf reilffordd Parcffordd Glyn Ebwy) is a station on the Ebbw Valley Railway in Wales. The station opened on 6 February 2008 when services to and from Cardiff Central commenced after 46 years of being a freight-only line. A northwards extension of the line to a new terminus at Ebbw Vale Town opened on 17 May 2015, which accounts for the drop in usage in 2015–16. A direct service to Newport was expected to commence in 2018 following double-tracking and re-signalling works between Aberbeeg and Crosskeys, but this has now been pushed back to 2021.^[1]

The station has been built on the site of the former Victoria station in the Victoria area of the Ebbw Vale conurbation. It consists of a single platform adjacent to Glan Ebbw Terrace, close to the A4046 Station Road.

Services

Today, the current service is two trains per hour consisting of one to Cardiff Central and one to Newport, both calling at Llanhilleth, Newbridge, Crosskeys, Risca, Rogerstone and Pye Corner. The journey times to Cardiff is approximately fifty minutes. Occasional services continue beyond Cardiff to Swansea, Bridgend or Maesteg.^[2]

Services are usually operated by Class 150 or 153 Sprinter units.

Demand for travel to and from the station was seriously under-estimated by the promoters of the line's reopening, even though the service provided was to Cardiff only and not to Newport as well, as originally assumed. For example, in 2008–09, usage at the station was forecast to be 50,000, for journeys on the lines to Cardiff and to Newport, but was actually about 250,000, for journeys on the line to Cardiff only. Part of the reason for the demand underforecast was the requirement that no demand from regeneration of the former steelworks area should be assumed.^[3]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Ebbw Vale Town		Transport for Wales Ebbw Vale Town – Cardiff Central		Llanhilleth

Bus interchange

The station is a thirty eight minute walk (1.8 miles) from Ebbw Vale bus station (known as Inner Bypass), which is the terminus for a number of Stagecoach South Wales services to Cardiff, Abergavenny, Brynmawr, Tredegar, and other nearby villages.

The station is closest served by the bus stop at Waunlwyd on the A4046. There are bus connections from here to nearby communities such as Cwm, the Garden Festival Shopping site, Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan and Ebbw Vale Town itself.

Peter Law plaque

A plaque at the railway station commemorates local MP and Assembly Member Peter Law, who died in 2006, in honour of his work to re-open the line.^[4]

References

^ Craig, Ian. "Restoration of Newport-Ebbw Vale rail link on track for 2021". South Wales Argus.
^ "Search & Buy Train Tickets with Arriva Trains Wales for travel in Wales and UK".
^ Steer Davies Gleave (August 2010). "Station Usage and Demand Forecasts for Newly Opened Railway Lines and Stations" (PDF). Department for Transport. pp. 125–126. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
^ Rivals unite to remember Peter Law | South Wales Argus

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station.

Train times and station information for Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station from National Rail
Details of proposals for station, with pictures
Archive of Ebbw Valley Railway Scheme website (Blaenau Gwent council, 2008)

v t e Railway stations in Cardiff, Newport and the Valleys
Valley lines	Butetown Cardiff City Coryton Ebbw Valley Maesteg Merthyr Rhondda Rhymney Vale of Glamorgan
Other lines	South Wales Main Line Gloucester–Newport line Welsh Marches line South Wales Metro
Major stations	Cardiff Central Cardiff Queen Street Newport Bridgend
Cardiff stations	Rail transport in Cardiff Birchgrove Cardiff Bay Cathays Coryton Danescourt Fairwater Grangetown Heath High Level Heath Low Level Lisvane & Thornhill Llandaf Llanishen Ninian Park Radyr Rhiwbina Ty Glas Waun-gron Park Whitchurch
Newport stations	Newport Pye Corner Rogerstone
Valley Lines stations	Aber Abercynon Aberdare Bargoed Barry Barry Docks Barry Island Brithdir Cadoxton Caerphilly Cogan Crosskeys Cwmbach Dinas Powys Dinas Rhondda Dingle Road Eastbrook Ebbw Vale Parkway Ebbw Vale Town Energlyn & Churchill Park Fernhill Garth Gilfach Fargoed Hengoed Llanbradach Llanharan Llanhilleth Llantwit Major Llwynypia Maesteg Maesteg (Ewenny Road) Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr Vale Mountain Ash Newbridge Penarth Pencoed Pengam Penrhiwceiber Pentre-bach Pontlottyn Pontyclun Pontypridd Porth Quakers Yard Rhoose Cardiff International Airport Rhymney Risca & Pontymister Sarn Taffs Well Tir-Phil Tondu Ton Pentre Tonypandy Treforest Treforest Estate Trehafod Treherbert Treorchy Troed-y-rhiw Wildmill Ynyswen Ystrad Mynach Ystrad Rhondda
Other stations	Abergavenny Caldicot Chepstow Cwmbran Pontypool & New Inn Severn Tunnel Junction
Proposed stations	Aberbeeg Abertillery Cardiff Parkway Caerleon Crumlin Low Level Cwm Hirwaun Llanwern Newport West St Fagans
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