Gilfach Fargoed railway station

Gilfach Fargoed
General information
Location	Gilfach, Caerphilly Wales
Coordinates	51°41′03″N 3°13′39″W
Grid reference	ST152990
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	GFF
Classification	DfT category F2
Key dates
April 1908	Opened
6 July 2020	Temporarily closed
21 August 2021	Reopened
Passengers
2018/19	4,396
2019/20	4,972
2020/21	74
2021/22	1,158
2022/23	3,902
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Gilfach Fargoed railway station is a railway station serving the village of Gilfach, in Caerphilly county borough, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network.

The platforms are short (16 m or 52 ft) and can barely accommodate a British Rail Class 153 train, due to its small size it is affectionately nicknamed "Gilfach International". Passengers can only alight from the front doors of any train calling here, so the conductor on longer trains must give passengers advance notice so that they have time to move towards the front set of doors.

History

Built as a halt by the Rhymney Railway in 1908 for recently introduced steam railmotors, some 50 years after the line first opened. Although very close, the halt did not serve the Brecon and Merthyr Railway which passed behind, on its way to Bargoed south Junction.

Services

Mondays to Saturdays there is an hourly service between Bargoed and Penarth. Sundays there is a two-hourly service between Rhymney and Barry Island.

Due to the platforms not being long enough to accommodate social distancing measures introduced because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the station was temporarily closed between 6 July 2020 and 21 August 2021.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Pengam		Transport for Wales Rhymney Line		Bargoed

External links

• Train times and station information for Gilfach Fargoed railway station from National Rail
• Video coverage and history of Gilfach Fargoed Station