Rhiwsaeson is a village and district of the principal town and community of Llantrisant with the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in South Wales. It is located on the south easterly outskirts of the town, along the Afon Clun, south of the A473 and near the village of Groes-faen (Pontyclun) and Creigiau within northwest Cardiff.
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Beddau Halt railway station was a railway station at Beddau, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
It consisted of a single platform and shelter reached by steps leading from the road over which the line crossed. Its position was quite a distance from Beddau which limited its patronage, though all trains stopped at the station as a matter of course.
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Cross Inn is a southerly district of the town of Llantrisant within Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales. It is bounded by the B4595 to the north, the A4119 to the west, and the A473 to the south, near the Afon Clun.
Cross Inn railway station was open to passengers from 1875 to 1952.
The town is home to a post office and a nursery school called Meithrinfa'r Enfys, that provides a Welsh Medium education.
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Cross Inn railway station was situated on the line between Treforest and Llantrisant, Wales, about half a mile to the east of Llantrisant village. Typically for this line, the station had a single passenger platform a few goods sidings.
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Brofiscin Quarry is a disused limestone quarry in Groes-faen, near Llantrisant in South Wales. It was used for about seven years for the dumping of toxic waste including polychlorinated biphenyls and was capped in 2011. Some 72,000m3 / 80,000 tonnes of material was dumped here. Prior to its remediation, The Guardian described the site as "one of the most contaminated places in Britain." The level of pollution is such that it featured in an international conference discussing remediation of contaminated land. These events were described by The Ecologist magazine as "one of the biggest environmental crimes to have occurred in the UK". and the key witness at an Environmental Agency inquiry on 2006 ended up needing to live under police protection. The company using this disposal site also used the nearby Maendy Quarry.
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Creigiau railway station was a railway station in Creigiau in south Wales. It was on the Barry Railway between Efail Isaf and Wenvoe, which ran broadly north–south through Creigiau. To the east of the station, a second former line headed north-west towards Llantrisant, and south-east towards Cardiff. There was no connection between these lines; the Barry Railway line passed over the former Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway's and later Taff Vale Railway's Waterhall branch to the north of the station. During the Second World War, the station was used to transfer American military to the nearby hospital at Rhydlafar. The Railway closed in 1962.
Both platforms remain, albeit rather overgrown. The site of the station buildings and yard is now used by a coach operator.
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