Pontyates station was opened on 2 August 1909 by the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway on the Kidwelly and Cwmmawr section of the line and was closed by the Great Western Railway in 1953 with the last passenger train on the line running on Saturday 19 September 1953.

[1] It was on the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway with Trimsaran Road located to the south and Ponthenry to the north.

[4][5] In 2011 a single track line was still is situ and the platform on the eastern side was present but all the station buildings had been demolished.

Further sidings, a weighing machine, a disused colliery and a passing loop stood to the north past the level crossing.

In 1915 Plas-bach Colliery lay to the west with a substantial rail network and several transfer sidings stood on the line towards Pontyates station.