page_title: Ebbw Vale
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Ebbw Vale / Transport
caption_attribution_description: English: Newport station special for Ebba Vale , near to Newport/Casnewydd, Great Britain. A special train for Ebbw Vale (then on a freight only railway) waits at Newport station
context_page_description: Ebbw Vale is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough. The Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr conurbation has a population of roughly 33,000. It has direct access to the dualled A465 Heads of the Valleys trunk road and borders the Brecon Beacons National Park.
context_section_description: A railway service to Cardiff Central began on 6 February 2008,
  with trains serving the town from the new Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station. An extension of the line to a new northern terminus, Ebbw Vale Town, was opened on 17 May 2015.
  The A465T dualled trunk road runs just to the north with direct access to the town and its industrial estates.
caption: A train waits at Newport railway station, September 2, 1995
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