Bargoed railway station

Bargoed railway station serves the town of Bargoed in the county borough of Caerphilly, South Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network and is located close to the Bargoed Interchange bus station.

Bargoed Welsh: Bargod
General information
Location	Bargoed, Caerphilly Wales
Coordinates	51°41′34″N 3°13′48″W
Grid reference	SO150000
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BGD
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	1858
Key dates
September 2013	Signal box closed[1]
Passengers
2019/20	0.198 million
2020/21	26,928
2021/22	99,540
2022/23	0.148 million
2023/24	0.168 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

Bargoed Station in 1965

The station was opened on 31 March 1858 by the Rhymney Railway and was once a busy junction, serving lines to Newport (via Bedwas) and Brecon (the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway), as well as the current route. However, the lines to Bedwas and Brecon were both closed to passengers on 31 December 1962, and completely in 1963–5. The junction site and trackbed of the old Brecon line are still visible north of the station.

In 1905, it was renamed Bargoed and Aber Bargoed, before reverting to its original name in 1924.^[2] Another similarly named station, Aber Bargoed, was opened by the Brecon & Merthyr Junction Railway and located on the now-defunct Newport line north of Bargoed South Junction.

Services

The typical Monday to Saturday daytime service pattern consists of four trains per hour southbound to Cardiff Central: three continue to Barry Island and one to Bridgend. Northbound, two trains per hour run to Rhymney, one skipping intermediate stations. The frequency decreases in the evening.

On Sundays, the service pattern is one train per hour southbound to Cardiff Central and Barry Island, and one per hour northbound to Rhymney.^[3]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Gilfach Fargoed or Pengam		Transport for Wales Rhymney Line		Brithdir or Rhymney
	Disused railways
Groesfaen Colliery Platform Line and station closed		Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway		Pengam Line and station closed

Bus station

See also: Bargoed Interchange

Bargoed Interchange, which opened in 2011, is a three-minute walk from the railway station.

The redeveloped bus station building was funded through the European Union Regional Development Fund, the Welsh Government's Targeted Match Funding, the Transport Grant programme, and the Heads of the Valleys Programme project.

Bus services run to Newport, Merthyr Tydfil, Blackwood, Caerphilly, Pontypridd, and Ystrad Mynach.