Ebbw Valley Railway

rdf:langString Ebbw Valley Railway

rdf:langString Ebbw Valley Railway

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rdf:langString Ebbw Valley Railway

rdf:langString April 2022

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rdf:langString View along country station platform with bilingual exit signage. Passengers wait to board a two carriage train, which is stationary on the single track. Platform, train and track curve slightly right to left. Trees in full leaf stand alongside the track, with mountains in the distance.

rdf:langString Rheilfford Cwm Ebwy.jpg

rdf:langString Logo has a stylised capital 'E' to the left; spine of the 'E' is boomerang shaped in green also forming the lower stroke; upper two strokes are blue. The name 'Ebbw Valley Railway' is above the name 'Rheilfford Cwm Ebwy'

rdf:langString It needs more explanation of the South Wales Metro and corresponding changes to the trains and services on the line.

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rdf:langString The Ebbw Valley Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Cwm Ebwy) is a branch line of the South Wales Main Line in South Wales. Transport for Wales Rail provides an hourly passenger service each way between Ebbw Vale Town and Cardiff Central, and an hourly service each way between Crosskeys and Newport. The line was opened by the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company and the Great Western Railway (GWR) operated a passenger service from the 1850s between Newport and Ebbw Vale. The line became part of British Railways Western Region in 1948, following the nationalisation of the railways. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1962. However, the route continued to be used to carry freight to and from the Corus steelworks in Ebbw Vale, until its closure in 2002. Proposals to re-open the existing freight railway line to passenger services were first mooted in 1998. The Welsh Assembly Government announced their commitment to the project in 2002, as part of a package of measures to help the former steel communities. Passenger services were restored to the line in February 2008, after a gap of 46 years, using Class 150 diesel multiple units. Predominantly single track north of Newport, the Ebbw Valley Railway runs 19 miles (31 km) along the Ebbw River valley from Ebbw Vale, before joining the South Wales Main Line at a triangular group of junctions in Newport – the line splitting at Park Junction with the eastbound section joining at Gaer Junction and the westbound section joining at Ebbw Junction. The line's stations and services are managed by Transport for Wales Rail.