Misplaced Pages

Penallt Halt railway station

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Disused railway station on the Wye Valley Railway

Penallt Halt
The site of the station in 2013
General information
LocationPenallt, Monmouthshire
Wales
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
August 1931Opened
1 January 1959Closed
Wye Valley Railway
Legend
Coleford, Monmouth, Usk
& Pontypool Railway
Monmouth Troy
Ross and Monmouth Railway
River Trothy and River Wye
Wyesham Halt
Wyesham Junction
Coleford Railway
Wales
England
Redbrook on Wye
Penallt Viaduct
over River Wye
Gloucestershire
Monmouthshire
Penallt Halt
Whitebrook Halt
St Briavels
Llandogo Halt
Brockweir Halt
Tintern
River Wye
Monmouthshire
Gloucestershire
Tintern tunnel
182 yd
166 m
Tintern Wireworks Branch
Tintern Quarry
Tidenham tunnel
1190 yd
1088 m
Netherhope Halt
Tidenham
Gloucester–Newport line
Wye Valley Junction
Tutshill for Beachley Halt
Chepstow East
Chepstow Railway Bridge
over River Wye
Glos.
Mon.
Chepstow
Gloucester–Newport line

Penallt Halt was a request stop on the former Wye Valley Railway. It was opened on 1 August 1931 and closed in 1959. Penallt Halt and Redbrook Station were the closest stations on the line with only Penallt Viaduct separating them. Penallt Halt was close to the village of Redbrook.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Whitebrook Halt   Wye Valley Railway
British Railways
  Redbrook on Wye

51°47′04″N 2°40′26″W / 51.7844°N 2.6739°W / 51.7844; -2.6739

References

  1. Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 335. OCLC 931112387.
  2. B. M. Handley and R. Dingwall, The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch, 1982, ISBN 0-85361-530-6


Stub icon

This Wales railway station-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: