page_title: Neath railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Neath railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: Metropolitan Cammell 8-car "Blue Pullman" dmu Nos.W60099, W60649, W60739, W60749, W60748, W60738, W60648, W60098 on the Paddington-Swansea (High St) "South Wales Pullman" with Type 1 1,000hp power car leading, in the Nanking Blue &amp; White Pullman livery with an all-yellow warning front end that unfortunately covered the Pullman emblem, at Neath (General), 06/67. It could be said that the concept of the Blue Pullmans was a precursor of the HST's. Scanned photograph taken with a Kowa SET camera.
context_page_description: Neath railway station is a main line railway station serving the town of Neath, south Wales. Managed by Transport for Wales, the station is located at street level on Windsor Road, situated back from the street fronting a small car park. It is 208 miles 20 chains from London Paddington.
context_section_description: The surviving Neath railway station is one of four railway stations originally in Neath, and to distinguish it from the others was at one time named Neath General, the suffix being applied before Nationalisation. Neath Canalside served the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway services until they ended in 1963. Neath Riverside (also at times known as Neath Bridge Street and Neath Low Level), served trains to and from Brecon via the Neath and Brecon Railway, with an additional stop at Neath Abbey. The railway itself remains partly in use, linking Onllwyn and the docks. The remains of the Neath Bridge Street station can be seen by looking down at the railway alongside the river bridge just before Neath railway station in the Swansea direction.
  Neath General also acted as the western passenger terminus of the Vale of Neath Railway for most of its life - trains running from here to Pontypool Road via Aberdare and Crumlin High Level via a connecting curve at the west end of the station.  These ceased in June 1964 (when the line fell victim to the Beeching Axe) and the link line was lifted, though parts of the old VoNR remains intact (but disused) as far as Resolven and from Aberdare to Hirwaun.
  The present station buildings date from 1974, when the old GWR structures dating from 1886/87 were demolished and rebuilt in contemporary style by British Rail.
caption: A Swansea-bound South Wales Pullman at Neath General in 1967
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