Station Name: ABERCANAID
1919 1:2,500 OS map. Abercanaid station had two facing platforms, the main station building was on the down side of the line with access to the upper floor from Graig Road bridge. Access to the up platform was by a curving ramp on the south side of the bridge. There was a waiting shelter on the up platform. A signal box at the north end of the up platform controlled access to the goods yard and the later Waunwyllt Colliery sidings on the up side. The goods yard comprised three parallel sidings running behind the down platform. The east siding had a loop which ran through a goods shed. Road access to the goods yard was from the north side of Graig Road bridge. In 1908 Waunwyllt Colliery opened to the south of the station. A narrow gauge tramway ran from the colliery drift to the station where three new standard gauge sidings were laid down in 1907. A number of buildings were provided one of which was a transfer shed where could be transferred from narrow gauge to standard gauge wagons. There was a railway weighbridge and weigh office at the north end of the sidings. A number of buildings on the site were served by the narrow gauge tramway as was a spoil tip. Buildings associated with the mine have been coloured pink. Follow the tramway south to Waunwyllt Colliery drift. From there the tramway is shown as 'old tramway' and continues west to an earlier drift.
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