This enabled the LNWR to then reverse its trains at Llanelli, and run under agreement with the GWR into Swansea via the South Wales Main Line.

Subsequently, transferred to the LNWR, they amalgamated the line into a new company called the Central Wales and Carmarthen Junction Railway, with the LR retaining running powers over its own ex-mainline.

This direct line opened in 1866/7 and terminated for passengers at Swansea Victoria, turning the original station at Pontarddulais into a junction with four platforms.

With better connections and an ample supply of natural resources, from the mid-1800s the town became highly industrialised, through both the extraction of coal, but mainly the development of various competing tinplate works.

By 1910 there were six works across the area, with workers coming from as far away as Italy, resulting in the GWR connecting its freight bypass route the Swansea District Line just to the south of Pontarddulais in 1912.

The LNWR's direct Swansea Victoria line along the Mumbles peninsula fell victim to the Beeching Axe in June 1964,[2] and its bridge just south of Pontarddulais was removed in 1974 to allow construction of the M4 Motorway westwards.

There is a standard plexiglass and metal shelter provided, along with a CIS screen and timetable information board but no other permanent buildings.