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Heol Beuno, PONTYPOOL, NP4 0QU

Platforms 1 (on the right, northbound) and 2 (southbound) at Pontypool & New Inn station are over 100 metres long. This contrasts with the short length of most of the services which now stop here, usually 2 carriages long, occasionally 4. The station was formerly known as Pontypool Road. For more than a century, from the mid 19th century to the 1960s, Pontypool Road was a railway junction which connected the line from Newport and Cardiff to the Midlands and North of England with the line from Neath and Merthyr. Pontypool Road station was part of a rail complex, with a 50-track marshalling yard for assembling coal trains destined for all parts of the UK. In addition there were goods sheds, engine sheds and refuelling facilities for the many steam locomotives used on the rail network. Today all that remains is the main line. At one time much of the land in the valley bottom now occupied by the A4042 and the McDonald's roundabout between New Inn and Griffithstown was a sprawling network of railway tracks, sidings and buildings.

The entrance is reached via a 200-metre long access road from The Highway. The station was originally named Pontypool Road. The addition of 'Road' to a station name was often used when, as here, the station is situated some distance from the centre of the town served. Little now remains of the station as built in 1852. In 1972 it was renamed Pontypool. The station underwent major refurbishment in 1994, including demolition of buildings no longer required, and '& New Inn' was added to the station name to acknowledge its location. Under the Arriva Trains Wales 'Adopt a Station' scheme, http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1691278 this unmanned station was adopted by Matthew Harrison on February 21st 2006.

Alongside the unnamed road from Pontypool & New Inn railway station https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7138094 to The Highway.

Opposite the entrance https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7138094 to Pontypool & New Inn railway station.

Near the entrance https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7138094 to Pontypool & New Inn railway station.

Transport for Wales ticket machine located on the left here https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7138094 at the entrance to Pontypool & New Inn railway station in April 2022.

Viewed at 8:05am on a Sunday in November 2023. The next departure shown is to Manchester Piccadilly in about an hour.

View NW, towards Newport on the ex-GW Newport - Pontypool Road - Hereford main line. '5600' 0-6-2T No. 6658 was built 9/28 and withdrawn 4/65 - soon after this photograph.

Parked near Pontypool & New Inn railway station in April 2023. Based in Unit 1, Avondale House, Avondale Road, Cwmbran, Concept specialises in the design, manufacture and installation of stainless steel fabrication for the catering industry.

The entrance is reached via an unnamed eoad from The Highway. The bilingual name sign shows that Pontypool & New Inn is Pont-y Pwl & New Inn in Welsh. In April 2022 the 2-platform station on the Welsh Marches Line from Newport to Crewe is managed by Transport for Wales.