Pontyclun railway station
Pontyclun 
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| Welsh: Pont-y-clun | |
Pontyclun Railway Station, 2006
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| Location | |
| Place | Pontyclun |
| Local authority | Rhondda Cynon Taf |
| Coordinates | 51°31′26″N 3°23′32″W / 51.5239°N 3.3921°WCoordinates: 51°31′26″N 3°23′32″W / 51.5239°N 3.3921°W |
| Grid reference | ST035815 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | PYC |
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| 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 |
 0.241 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.256 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.281 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.296 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.301 million |
| History | |
| Original company | South Wales Railway / Cowbridge Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway / Taff Vale Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| 18 June 1850 | SWR station opened as Llantrissant for Cowbridge |
| 18 September 1865 | Cowbridge Rly station opened as Llantrissant |
| c. 1866 | GWR (ex-SWR) station renamed Llantrissant |
| by 1902 | both stations renamed Llantrisant |
| 21 September 1925 | Stations amalgamated |
| 2 November 1964 | Closed |
| 28 September 1992 | Reopened as Pontyclun |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Pontyclun from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Pontyclun railway station is an unstaffed, minor railway station in Pontyclun, in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales. The station is at street level, on Station Approach, Pontyclun. It is a stop on the South Wales Main Line, served by trains on the Maesteg Line, and occasionally by the Swanline Cardiff to Swansea regional services, as well as one early-morning daily service to Manchester and a late-night daily service to Carmarthen. The station and all trains are operated by Arriva Trains Wales.
The station was rebuilt and reopened under British Rail as Pontyclun on 28 September 1992. It was previously called Llantrisant station and was originally two separate railway stations that were merged in 1925, those originally belonging to the South Wales Railway and the Cowbridge Railway, whose successors, the Great Western Railway and the Taff Vale Railway respectively, had amalgamated in 1922.
The first section of the South Wales Railway (SWR), that between Chepstow and Swansea, opened on 18 June 1850. The original stations on that line included one named Llantrissant for Cowbridge.
The station became a junction with the opening of the first section of the Ely Valley Railway (EVR) to Tonyrefail on 2 August 1860, although passenger services along that line did not begin until 1 August 1865. The EVR opened a branch to Brofiskin Colliery in 1862, and another railway, the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway, which opened in December 1863, intended to use part of that branch to gain access to Llantrisant via a connection at Maesaraul Junction, but in order to do this, the Brofiskin branch had to be altered to mixed gauge - this occurred in December 1864.
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