page_title: Porthcawl
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Porthcawl / Transport
caption_attribution_description: English: Excursion train (with freight locomotive) at Porthcawl station. View southward, towards the buffer-stops: GWR terminus of branch from Pyle. The locomotive is a Churchward '4200' 2-8-0T, No. 4287 (built 8/21, withdrawn 1/61).
context_page_description: Porthcawl is a town and community on the south coast of Wales in the county borough of Bridgend, 25 miles west of the capital city, Cardiff and 19 miles southeast of Swansea. Historically part of Glamorgan and situated on a low limestone headland on the South Wales coast, overlooking the Bristol Channel, Porthcawl developed as a coal port during the 19th century, but its trade was soon taken over by more rapidly developing ports such as Barry. Northwest of the town, in the dunes known as Kenfig Burrows, are hidden the last remnants of the town and Kenfig Castle, which were overwhelmed by sand about 1400.
context_section_description: Road - the A4229 road links the town to junction 37 of the M4 motorway
  Bus - First Cymru's X2 service runs every half an hour to Cardiff Central via Bridgend, Cowbridge and West Cardiff.
  Rail - the nearest station is Pyle, although Bridgend railway station is the nearest mainline station. Porthcawl's own railway station at the top of Station Hill closed in 1962.
  Air - the nearest airport is Cardiff Airport, 23 miles (37 km) away, which offers scheduled domestic and international flights
caption: The former Porthcawl railway station in 1946
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