Crosskeys railway station

Crosskeys
General information
Location	Crosskeys, Caerphilly Wales
Coordinates	51°37′15″N 3°07′33″W
Grid reference	ST221919
Owned by	Network Rail
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CKY
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
December 1850	Line opened
June 1851	Crossing used as station
About August 1851	Station opened as Cross Keys
30 April 1962	Station closed to passengers
7 June 2008	Station reopened to passengers as Crosskeys
Passengers
2019/20	99,846
2020/21	12,474
2021/22	53,018
2022/23	72,072
2023/24	63,340
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Crosskeys railway station is a station serving the village of Crosskeys in the Caerphilly County Borough in Wales. It is on the Ebbw Valley Railway.

The station is situated behind houses on Risca Road and Carlton Terrace. The access to the station is via a one-way system off High Street exiting via Carlton Terrace.

Crosskeys is a two-platform station and there is no car park. The station provides good access to the village and Crosskeys College.

The station marks the end of the double-track passing loop between Risca and Crosskeys; upon leaving Crosskeys trains enter the single track which extends to the railhead in Ebbw Vale Town.

History

The line through the station site opened on 23 December 1850, at this time there was no station, it was not mentioned in the newspaper report of the line opening nor in the first published timetable. By June 1851 trains were ordered to stop at the level crossing here as soon as booking arrangements were complete. This was not uncommon practice in the early days of railways when trains could be boarded at designated stopping-places, passengers clambering aboard from the lineside having purchased tickets from a nearby inn. There was a station on the site by August 1851 as from then it appeared in the timetable, at this time there were two trains each day in each direction, terminating at Newport Courtybella and Blaina.

The station re-opened on 7 June 2008, four months after services recommenced on the line.

The station name formerly used by the railways was spelt as two words, the Ordnance Survey using the spelling as one word Crosskeys and the re-opened station has taken this spelling as well.

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays, there are two trains an hour between Cardiff Central or Newport and Ebbw Vale Town in each direction. On Sundays, the Cardiff to Ebbw Vale service runs via Newport every two hours.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Risca and Pontymister		Transport for Wales Cardiff / Newport - Ebbw Vale Town		Newbridge
	Historical railways
Risca Line open, station closed		Great Western Railway Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company		Cwmcarn Line open, station closed

Bibliography

• Biddle, Gordon (1997). "stations, passenger". In Simmons, Jack; Biddle, Gordon (eds.). The Oxford Companion to British Railway History From 1603 to the 1990s (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 473–475. ISBN 0-19-211697-5.
• Bradshaw, George (2011) [December 1895]. Bradshaw's Rail Times for Great Britain and Ireland December 1895: A Reprint of the Classic Timetable Complete with Period Advertisements and Shipping Connections to All Parts. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 978-1-908174-11-6. OCLC 832579861.
• Quick, Michael (2023) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.05. Railway & Canal Historical Society.

External links

• Train times and station information for Crosskeys railway station from National Rail
• "Planning Approval Granted for New Railway Station". Archived from the original on 26 September 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
• "Archive of Ebbw Valley Railway Scheme website". Blaenau Gwent council. 2008. Archived from the original on 25 February 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
• "National Transport Plan" (PDF). Welsh Assembly Government. July 2009. p. 26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2010.