Aber railway station serves the Bondfield Park and Trecenydd areas of the town of Caerphilly, in south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line, from Cardiff (Bute East Dock), near Cardiff Bay, on the Valley Lines network, and is between Caerphilly and Energlyn & Churchill Park. The station is managed by Transport for Wales Rail, who operate all services.
History
Opened on 1 April 1908 by the Rhymney Railway as Beddau Halt, it was renamed Aber Junction Halt on 17 September 1926. It was renamed Aber Halt on 6 May 1968, then Aber sometime in 1968 or 1969.
A different station also called existed on the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway.
The Junction suffix refers to the fact that until the early 1980s, there were two junctions near here: one to the south, between the current line via Caerphilly (which opened in 1871) and the original route down the Big Hill via Penrhos Junction to Walnut Tree Junction near on the Taff Vale Railway route from Cardiff to the other to the north for the branch line to .
The Senghenydd branch passenger service ended in June 1964 as a result of the Beeching Axe, but it remained in use for colliery traffic until 1977, whilst the Taffs Well route closed in June 1982; both have since been dismantled.
The station was temporarily closed for six weeks in 2022 for resurfacing of the platforms, following safety concerns.
The line through the station was electrified in late 2025.
Facilities The station previously had an independently-run ticket office, one of 21 stations in the country as of 2018. It closed during Covid-19, then reopened (this time run by Transport for Wales staff). However, the ticket office has been permanently closed since 2023.
The station has a car park, ticket machines, shelters, help points and live departure screens.
Passenger volume +Passenger volume at Aber2004–052005–062006–072007–082008–092009–102010–112011–122012–132013–142014–152015–162016–172017–182018–192019–202020–212021–222022–232023–242024–25Entries and exits134,191136,549169,463183,136192,180192,788202,486203,432209,622219,868212,546214,996227,270251,108245,218228,48015,71273,642103,976136,896145,234 The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.
Services Transport for Wales operates the following general off-peak service, in trains per hour (tph): 3 tph to 1 tph to 2 tph to 2 tph to .
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External links
The station on a navigable O.S. map