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A station at Port Talbot was opened with the South Wales Railway in 1850. It has undergone several renamings: Port Talbot and Aberavon in 1897, Port Talbot General in 1924, Port Talbot in 1947 and Port Talbot Parkway in 1984.
(Source: Colonel M.H.Cobb, The Railways of Great Britain: A Historical Atlas, Ian Allan, second edition 2006)
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 23 January 2013.