Station Name: MORRISTON WEST

 

[Source: Nick Catford]


Date opened: 9.5.1881
Location: South of Clase Road (A48) Site lost under new road
Company on opening: Great Western Railway
Date closed to passengers: 11.6.1956
Date closed completely: 4.10.1965
Company on closing: British Railways (Western Region)
Present state: Demolished - site is now lost under a car park for Castle Bingo. Clase Road bridge survives.
County: Glamorganshire
OS Grid Ref: SS672979
Date of visit: September 1976

Notes: Originally opened as Morriston, the name was changed to Morriston West in January 1950 to avoid confusion with the other Morriston station which was renamed Morriston East.

Morriston West station comprised two facing platforms with the main station building with a hipped lated roof stood on the east side with an open fronted waiting shelter with a flat sloping roof on the opposite platform. A footbridge spanned the platforms to the north of the buildings, this led to the street level booking office, a stone building with a hipped roof on Clase Road. A signal box was located on the platform south of the main building. The goods yard comprised three sidings on the east side of the station accessed from the south and two sidings on the west side accessed from the north . The middle siding looped through a goods shed with a 5 cwt capacity crane on the south side. As well as handling general goods the yard also handled horse boxes and prize cattle. Access to the goods yard was at the end of Crown Street where they was a weighbridge and office.

The booking office building was used as a shop for a number of years and by 1972 was occupied by Cyril Cooke Ltd. A second storey and a side extension was later added. The building has now been demolished.

Ticket from Michael Stewart.


Morrison West station looking north towards Clase Road c.1950s, after closure to passengers.
Photo from John Mann collection


1948 1:2,500 OS map showing the layout of Morriston (West) station and goods yard.

Morriston West Railway station looking towards Swansea. This view was taken in 1961, 5 years after the last passenger service had departed in 1956, however the line was to remain open to freight and diverted passenger traffic until 1964 and was completely closed 1965.
Photo from Steve Powell collection

GWR 6400 class 6435 waits at Morriston West during a visit by the West Glamorgan Railway Society / Monmouthshire Railway Society Mid Glamorgan Rail Tour on 8 June 1963. 6435 was built at Swindon in 1937 and was withdrawn in October 1964. It was purchased by the Dart Valley Railway and arrived at Buckfastleigh in October 1965, straight from BR service. 6435 was used regularly in the line’s early days of preservation and, in the 1970s, was transferred to the Dart Valley Company’s Paignton to Kingswear line. In 2008, 6435 was declared too small for this heavily graded line and was purchased for use on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway in Cornwall where it is operational following an overhaul in 2012. In February 2024 the locomotive and an auto-trailer was purchased by Jonathon Jones-Pratt who is the chairman of the West Somerset Railway.
Photo by David Pearson

Morriston West station looking north from the goods siding in August 1972.
Photo by John Mann

Morriston West station ticket office on Clase Road in August 1972
Photo by John Mann

Morriston West station looking south from Clase Road in September 1976. The south end of the platforms has already been demolished to make way for a new car park.
Photo by Nick Catford

Street level booking office on Clase Road in May 1998.
Photo by Vectocraft. Reproduced from Geograph under creative commons licence
Looking south towards the site of Morriston West station in May 1998. The car park beyond Clase Road bridge is the site of the station.
Photo by Vectocraft. Reproduced from Geograph under creative commons licence

The site of Morriston West station seen from Clase Road bridge in November 2010.
Photo by Steve Powell

 

 

 

[Source: Nick Catford]



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