Hengoed railway station

Hengoed Caerphilly Wales
Coordinates	51°38′50″N 3°13′31″W / 51.6471°N 3.2254°W / 51.6471; -3.2254
Grid reference	ST153949
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	HNG
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Opened	1858
Passengers
2018/19	0.167 million
2019/20	0.142 million
2020/21	23,108
2021/22	73,330
2022/23	0.106 million
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Hengoed railway station serves the village of

History

The current station was initially named Hengoed & Maesycwmmer when opened by the Rhymney Railway in 1858. Then on railway grouping into the Great Western Railway in 1923 it became known as Hengoed Low Level to avoid confusion.^[1]

Hengoed High Level railway station

Immediately adjacent, and crossing Hengoed Low Level was another station which originally shared the name Hengoed & Maesycwmmer, serving the

The towns shared a third railway station on the former Rumney Railway, which on amalgamation with the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway was called Maesycwmmer & Hengoed. In 1923 it was renamed simply Maesycwmmer.

Services

The station has 4 departures per hour in each direction Mon-Sat daytimes^[2]- southbound to Caerphilly, Cardiff Central and Penarth and northbound to Bargoed. One each hour of the latter runs through to Rhymney (with extras at peak times). During the evening, the frequency drops to hourly each way and on Sundays to two-hourly (when trains run southbound to Barry Island).

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Ystrad Mynach		Rhymney Line		Pengam

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hengoed railway station.

• Train times and station information for Hengoed railway station from National Rail
• Photographs of the current station and remains of Hengoed High Level^{[permanent dead link]}