Pontsticill

Pontsticill is a railway stop in Vaynor, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Pontsticill is situated nearby to Baltic Quarry, as well as near Taf Fechan Forest.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pontsticill railway station and Pant railway station.

Pontsticill railway station

Railway station

Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Pontsticill railway station is an intermediate station on the Brecon Mountain Railway at Pontsticill, in the historic Welsh county of Brecknockshire, now Merthyr Tydfil County Borough.

Pant railway station

Railway station

Photo: Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Pant railway station was a station which served Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, in the historic Welsh county of Glamorgan, now Merthyr Tydfil County Borough. It was the junction at which the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Railway line from Pontsticill in the North split to serve the Dowlais Central and Dowlais Top lines. Pant railway station is situated 1½ miles south of Pontsticill.

Dolygaer railway station

Railway station

Photo: Timothy Titus, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dolygaer railway station is a former station serving the hamlet of Dol-y-gaer and the area adjacent to Pen-twyn Reservoir in Powys, Wales. Dolygaer railway station is situated 1½ miles north of Pontsticill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pontsticill and Pant.

Pontsticill

Village

Photo: Alan Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Pontsticill is a village within the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. It lies within the valley of the Taf Fechan on the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park.

Pant

Village

Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Pant is a village and community on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil, a large former mining town in the South Wales Valleys, Wales. Pant is notable for being the starting point of the Brecon Mountain Railway, and the site of the former Morlais railway tunnel, which runs underneath the village and emerges in the middle of it. Pant is situated 2 miles south of Pontsticill.

Dowlais

Suburb

Photo: Varitek, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Dowlais is a village in the north-east of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in South East Wales. The name is derived from the Welsh words du and glais. Dowlais is notable within Wales and within Great Britain as a whole, for its historic association with ironworking; once employing, through the Dowlais Iron Company, over 7,000 people, the works being at one stage the largest in the world. Dowlais is situated 2½ miles south of Pontsticill.

Pontsticill

Type: Railway stop
Categories: transport stop and transportation
Location: Vaynor, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.80053° or 51° 48′ 2″ north

Longitude

-3.36081° or 3° 21′ 39″ west

Open location code

9C3RRJ2Q+6M

OpenStreetMap ID

node 14270462919

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=stop_position

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=stop

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