In spite of requests from residents, the Taff Vale Railway had refused to provide a station in the area in 1887[1] because the company considered such an undertaking to be financially undesirable.
However, when a railmotor service was introduced on the line in the 1900s, four new platforms were planned, and one of these was to serve Trerhyngyll and Maendy, together with Prisk and Welsh St Donats.
It was a single forty-foot platform without a shelter, passengers being confined to a fenced enclosure at the rear, which would be opened by the guard.
Despite the fact that passenger numbers were adequate, the Taff Vale Railway rejected a request in 1910 for the spartan facilities to be improved.
By this time, the platform had been lengthened to allow it to accommodate trains of two coaches.