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It is located below street level at Station Road in Skewen, 210 miles 26 chains (338 km) from London Paddington (via Stroud). [1] It is a stop on the South Wales Main Line, served by Transport for Wales Swanline regional trains between Swansea and Cardiff, which typically run every two hours. There is no Sunday service.
The maximum line speed from Wootton Bassett Junction to Coalpit Heath is 125 mph (200 km/h); [21] 90 mph (145 km/h) from Coalpit Heath to Newport; 90 mph (145 km/h) from Newport to east of Bridgend; [22] 75 mph (120 km/h) from east of Bridgend to Swansea Loop North junction (with a small section of 100 mph (160 km/h) track through Pyle station ...
The Swansea District line (Welsh: Llinell Bwrdeistref Abertawe) is a section of railway line running through the northern part of Swansea, Wales and is primarily used for freight transportation, although minimal passenger services also traverse the route.
Owing to very light Swanline passenger loadings, it has been proposed that a more useful service could be offered by abandoning through-running to Cardiff and instead operating Swanline trains between Swansea and Port Talbot only. This would provide the Swansea Bay area with a more frequent, hourly service using the same resources (two trainsets).
The station is served by Great Western Railway services between London Paddington and Swansea. The trains run hourly each way with peak extras and Transport for Wales regional trains between Milford Haven/Carmarthen and Manchester Piccadilly via Cardiff, Newport and Shrewsbury (also hourly), plus the two-hourly Swansea to Cardiff stopping ...
Fishguard Harbour to Swansea: 1tp2h: Fishguard and Goodwick, Clarbeston Road, Clunderwen, Whitland, Carmarthen, Pembrey & Burry Port and Llanelli Swanline Route tph Calling at Swansea to Cardiff Central: 1tp2h: Llansamlet, Skewen, Neath, Briton Ferry, Baglan, Port Talbot Parkway, Pyle, Bridgend, Pencoed and Pontyclun: West Wales-Gloucestershire ...
GW 0-6-0PT bringing in empty stock in 1962. The station opened in 1850. [3] It was built by the South Wales Railway, which amalgamated with the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1863; [3] it was not originally on the South Wales Railway main line, planned to connect London with the port of Fishguard, and Swansea passengers had to change at Landore, two miles to the north until at least 1879.
Heart of Wales Line services between Shrewsbury and Swansea (four trains a day) travel over the Swansea to Llanelli section of the West Wales Lines. Irregular local trains to and from Fishguard Harbour (some going only as far east as Clarbeston Road some coming all the way from Cardiff (via Swansea )) which started on 12 September 2011, after a ...