Dynea Halt railway station

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Dynea Halt
Location	Rhydyfelin, Rhondda Cynon Taf Wales
Coordinates	51°35′14″N 3°18′10″W / 51.5872°N 3.3029°W / 51.5872; -3.3029Coordinates: 51°35′14″N 3°18′10″W / 51.5872°N 3.3029°W / 51.5872; -3.3029
Grid reference	ST098883
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1 September 1904	opens as Dynea
1 July 1924	renamed Dynea Halt
17 September 1956	closed

Dynea Halt was a railway station in Rhydyfelin near Pontypridd, Wales. It was a small halt on the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway, and closed in 1956.

History and description[]

Like the other halts on the line, Dynea opened in 1904 to cater for the local railmotor passenger services. In October 1908, the halt was badly damaged in a flood. An avalanche of water and rubble swept through the area before over-spilling into the Glamorganshire Canal. In 1924, the suffix 'halt' was added by the GWR.

Dynea had ground-level platforms with partially-open wooden shelters inside wooden enclosures. The gates of these would be unlocked when a train arrived. The shelters do not appear in later photographs, probably removed at some date before the 1950s. In 1931, the GWR added a down siding some 300 yards from Dynea Halt, controlled by the Dynea signal box. At some later date, a ground frame was added to control it, but this development was short-lived, and the siding was gone by 1943.^[1]

Dynea closed in 1956, along with all the remaining halts on the line.

After closure[]

There are no traces remaining of the halt. The site is now part of the Nantgarw-Treforest cycle track.

References[]

External links[]

• Railtour 1952