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Port Talbot Parkway railway station

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The ticket office is open seven days per week, with a self-service ticket machine provided for use and collecting advance purchase tickets. A waiting room and toilets are located on the platform, with the platform and ticket hall linked by a fully accessible footbridge with lifts (installed in 2016).
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service, which has one train every two hours between Swansea and Cardiff Central service, to be altered to a service which terminates at Port Talbot Parkway and operate on an hourly basis between Swansea and Port Talbot Parkway.
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On Sundays the London - Swansea Great Western Railway service runs hourly with a two hourly service extended to Carmarthen. Transport for Wales Milford Haven/Carmarthen - Manchester Piccadilly services are hourly .
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and build a new store beside the station featuring a superstore, petrol station and car park. However this was rejected by the local council and the land remains undeveloped.
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The resignalling activity in the Port Talbot area during 2006/2007 has provided a new signalled turnback facility in both directions. There are proposals for the present
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The council announced in early 2011 the plans for a new ticket office and platform bridge at the station, including a lift for disabled access and a 200 space car-park.
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areas. The idea was that overall travel time could be saved by catching the train at Port Talbot instead of Neath or
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on 1 July 1924 (the suffix distinguishing it from other stations in Port Talbot), later reverting to the original
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Redevelopment work on the station began in May 2014 and was completed in late 2016, at a cost of £11 million.
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Train running information is offered via CIS displays, automatic announcements and timetable posters.
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because of the low line speed west of Port Talbot and the limited parking at the other two stations.
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route and the other being the nearby terminus of the Port Talbot Railway named Port Talbot Central.
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when the old goods shed and yard were converted to a large car park, with freight handling moved to
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There were originally two stations near to the current site, one of which was
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Slater, J.N., ed. (July 1974). "Notes and News: Western's last "General"".
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A transport interchange formed part of the redevelopment of the station
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Aerial view of the new footbridge during construction work (May 2016)
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Store will revitalise town not harm it, Tesco insists - Wales Online
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The former station building and footbridge in March 2012
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History of the Great Western Railway, vol. I: 1833-1863
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The station is of the island type and has 2 platforms:
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press release 28 February 2016; Retrieved 21 July 2017
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Welsh
National Rail

Port Talbot
Neath Port Talbot
51°35′31″N 3°46′52″W / 51.592°N 3.781°W / 51.592; -3.781
Grid reference
SS766896
Transport for Wales
DfT category
South Wales Railway
Great Western Railway
Office of Rail and Road
railway station
Port Talbot
Wales
miles
chains
London Paddington

Pembroke Coast Express

South Wales Railway
Chepstow
Swansea
parkway station
British Rail
Margam Knuckle Yard
Neath
Swansea Valley

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