Skewen railway station
Skewen railway station serves the village of Skewen, south Wales. It is located below street level at Station Road in Skewen, 210 miles 26 chains from London Paddington.Photo: Kevin Trahar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “SKE”, “Skewen Railway Station”, and “Skewen Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Skewen Library and The Miners Arms.
Skewen Library
Library
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skewen Library is situated 1,400 feet east of Skewen railway station.
The Miners Arms
Pub
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Miners Arms is a pub, which is situated 2,200 feet east of Skewen railway station.
Carreg Bica Standing Stone
Archaeological site
Photo: Dai Bevan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carreg Bica Standing Stone is an archaeological site, which is situated 1¼ miles north of Skewen railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skewen and Coed Darcy.
Skewen
Village
Photo: Alan Roberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skewen is a village within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, in Wales. The village is served by Skewen railway station and has its own rugby club.
Coed Darcy
Village
Coed Darcy is a new village under development on brownfield land adjacent to Llandarcy in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. Development began in the mid-2000s and was expected to take approximately twenty years.
Llandarcy
Village
Photo: Steve Rigg, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llandarcy is a village near Neath in the Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales, and was the site of the first oil refinery in the United Kingdom. It was originally designed as a garden village to house the workers for the BP refinery built between 1918 and 1922.
Skewen railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Coedffranc, Neath Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.66147° or 51° 39′ 41″ northLongitude
-3.84678° or 3° 50′ 48″ westElevation
177 feet (54 metres)Operator
Transport for Wales RailNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“SKE”Open location code
9C3RM563+H7OpenStreetMap ID
node 3023231564OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Skewen railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Skewen”
- Dutch: “Station Skewen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة سكيوين”
- French: “gare de Skewen”
- French: “Skewen”
- Urdu: “سکیوین ریلوے اسٹیشن”
- Welsh: “Gorsaf reilffordd Sgiwen”
- Welsh: “Sgiwen”
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