It was sometimes referred to on old Ordnance Survey and British Railway Clearing House (RCH) as 'Varteg Halt', despite it having an extensive station building.

Opened by the Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway, it became part of the London and North Western Railway which through the connection with the Heads of the Valleys Line was able to take coal directly to destinations in the Midlands.

The station closed in 1941[1] in the same year when passenger trains operated by the Great Western Railway ceased due to the exigencies of the Second World War.

Although the line through the station site can still be traced on an OS map nearby Shop Road Bridge there is little left to show as the disused station building was later demolished by British Rail.

Today, the line through the site is occupied by the National Cycle Route 46.