Jersey Marine
General information
LocationJersey Marine, Neath Port Talbot
Wales
Grid referenceSS714936
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyRhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
Pre-groupingRhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
14 March 1895[1]Station opens
11 September 1933[1][2]Station closes

Jersey Marine railway station was a railway station on the Rhondda and Swansea Bay line (R&SBR) which ran from the Rhondda Valley to Swansea on the Welsh coast in the county of Glamorgan. It lay 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Swansea.

History

Jersey Marine opened in 1895 and closed in 1935[1] or 1933.[2] Briton Ferry Road station[3] lay close by on the Great Western Railway Vale of Neath line.[4] The R&SBR was absorbed by the Great Western Railway in the Grouping of the railways in 1923 as a result of the Railways Act 1921.

A four-storey octagonal tower stands near the hotel and the station site, built in the Victorian era and designed as a camera obscura at the Jersey Marine holiday resort. Workmen's halts were located to the east at Cape Platform[5] and at Baldwin's Halt[6] to the west.

Infrastructure

Jersey Marine station had a single platform on the Jersey Marine Hotel side of the line with a single shelter and ticket office. A footpath led from the vicinity of the hotel and its grounds to the platform.[7][4] A signalbox stood to the west and by 1914 a siding ran parallel to the single track main line.[4] Jersey Marine South Junction was located nearby. A Jersey Marine North Junction was also present.[8] The station site has been obliterated by a road overbridge however the line remains open.

References

  • Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
  • A. Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Cape Platform   Great Western Railway
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway		   Baldwin's Halt

51°37′38″N 3°51′31″W / 51.6272°N 3.8585°W / 51.6272; -3.8585


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