Transport for Wales
As part of the Railway 200 celebrations in 2025, HistoryPoints and Transport for Wales have teamed up to provide QR codes at more railway stations, for on-the-spot access to historical information.
Some of the stations are ones which succumbed to the widespread axing of passenger trains in Wales in the 1960s and 1970 but reopened from the 1980s onwards to help residents of former coal and steel communities to find work further afield.
You can discover the stations’ stories by scanning the QR codes at the stations with your smartphone, or by clicking on station names in the list below.
Across Wales, HistoryPoints has featured many other railway-related locations, which are listed on our Railway History in Wales page.
List of stations (more to follow)
Aberdare - reopened 1988 to help regenerate coalfield communities. Electric trains began in 2024
Tondu – where teenager Elizabeth Trevelyan filled a GWR vacancy in WW1, injuring fingers at work
Tonypandy - 150 police constables from London arrived by train in 1910 to quell riots
