Pontsarn

Pontsarn is a railway station in Vaynor, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Pontsarn is situated nearby to the cave Ogof Rhyd Sych, as well as near the ruins North Tower.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Morlais Castle and Pant railway station.

Morlais Castle

Ruins

Photo: Gibbinskaren, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Morlais Castle is a 13th-century castle located above the Taff Gorge near the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Morlais Castle is situated 1,900 feet southeast of Pontsarn.

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 1 mile east of Pontsarn.

Pant Cemetery

Cemetery

Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Pant Cemetery is situated 1 mile east of Pontsarn.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pontsticill and Gurnos.

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.

Gurnos

Suburb

Photo: Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Gurnos is a community of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales, United Kingdom. It consists principally of the Gurnos Estate. The population in 2011 was 5,280.

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.

Pontsarn

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

51.77926° or 51° 46′ 45″ north

Longitude

-3.38679° or 3° 23′ 12″ west

Open location code

9C3RQJH7+P7

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1120779776

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=station

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=abandoned

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Highlights include Pontsarn Viaduct and Ogof Rhyd Sych.

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