Pontrilas railway station

The station is now a private house with attached self-catering holiday cottage created from the former waiting room.

It is at the end of the long climb from Abergavenny; freight and steam specials on this route provide a noisy spectacle coming through the station site.

Plans were even mooted to open a short siding into it; this would have had to cross the A465 or replace the missing Golden Valley bridge so was unlikely.

A large online model railway retailer - OnTracks.co.uk – was based in the business unit below the signal box.

[7] In October 2023, the local authority said plans to reopen the station had been shelved as they claimed it was poor value for money.

Postcard from 1927 at the busy junction station
Arriva Trains Wales service passing the disused station