Opened :
Closed : Passengers ?, Coal 1987
Engineering Code : MDY
Route: Porth, Porth Junction, Ynyshir, Pontygwaith, Tylerstown, Ferndale,
Maerdy, Maerdy Colliery. Since the line was only removed in 1987,
there has been little time to remove bridges or overbuild the route. Thios is
about to change as the southern half of the line is being obliterated to make
way for a road. It will not remain in its current form beyond July 2005.
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Maerdy to Ferndale - This section is completely accessible and can be accessed from a number of locations. Maerdy station site has been restored to natural fields and partly overbuilt by the realigned Station road. |
| Ferndale to Tylerstown | |
| Tylerstown to Pontygwaith | |
| Pontygwaith to Ynyshir | |
| Ynyshir to Porth | |
| Construction work has just started (May 2005) on converting the section of trackbed from Tynewydd Square to Margaret Street, Pontygwaith into a relief road for Ynyshir. Construction work will see the removal of the remains of Ynyshir station, the bridges at Llanwonno road and Station street, and probably the replacement of the Rhonnda Fach bridge at Ynyshir and the Ynyshir road bridge. |
