Edwardsville, Merthyr Tydfil
Quakers Yard 
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| Welsh: Mynwent y Crynwyr | |
Quakers Yard railway station in 2008
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| Location | |
| Place | Quakers Yard, Treharris |
| Local authority | Merthyr Tydfil |
| Coordinates | 51°39′37″N 3°19′23″W / 51.6604°N 3.3231°WCoordinates: 51°39′37″N 3°19′23″W / 51.6604°N 3.3231°W |
| Grid reference | ST085965 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | QYD |
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 64,746 |
| 2012/13 |
71,726 |
| 2013/14 |
82,940 |
| 2014/15 |
 82,728 |
| 2015/16 |
84,404 |
| History | |
| 5 January 1858 | Opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Quakers Yard from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Quakers Yard railway station serves the village of Edwardsville in the community of Treharris, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. It is located on the Merthyr Tydfil branch of the Merthyr Line. Passenger services are provided by Arriva Trains Wales.
The station was opened as "Quakers Yard Low Level" by the Taff Vale Railway in 1858.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the Goitre Coed Viaduct, it was opened in 1841. Its height is approx 100 ft the Goitre Coed Viaduct was widened in 1862 with another stone bridge of slightly differing design sitting embedded next to the original one, this addition can easily be spotted when passing underneath the viaducts arches on the Taff Trail cycle route 8. This viaduct still exists as the gateway to the Taff Valley for the Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil railway line. In a recent TV appearance, a Brunel expert put the Goitre Coed Viaduct as the finest example of Brunel's viaducts in Wales.
Two more viaducts existed at the north end of Edwardsville which were demolished shortly after the Beeching cuts of the 1960s. The main reason for their demolition was subsidence and the viaducts had been strengthened with huge wooden supports for a number of years.
Until June 1964 (when the adjacent Vale of Neath Railway High Level station was closed, along with the Pontypool Road to Neath line that passed through it), this was a large, two-level junction with services to numerous locations and a hub through which large amounts of coal were transported. The line from Abercynon-Merthyr Tydfil is now a single line operation, the dual track being removed in the early 1970s, although some dual track has since been brought back at Merthyr Vale running towards Merthyr Tydfil to help with the increased frequency of services.
Today the station is situated below the Taff Vale estate where bespoke detached properties have been built on the high level line area and also on the incline that existed from the lower level which ran towards Treharris. The derelict upper level was partitioned when the Taff Vale estate was built. The land to the east below Edwardsville cemetery was earmarked for business units - but was eventually sold off to Bailey Homes house builders - mainly detached houses were built and named Forest Grove. A small senior citizen sheltered bungalow complex buffers this site with the Taff Vale site.
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