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{{Short description|Railway station in Caerphilly, Wales}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2017}}
{{Infobox station
| name                = Crosskeys
| symbol_location     = gb
| symbol              = rail
| image               = File:Platform 2, Crosskeys station (geograph 6386322).jpg
| borough             = [[Crosskeys]], [[Caerphilly (county borough)|Caerphilly]]
| country             = Wales
| coordinates         = {{Coord|51.6208|-3.1259|format=dms|display=inline,title|region:GB_type:railwaystation}}
| grid_name           = [[Ordnance Survey National Grid|Grid reference]]
| grid_position       = {{gbmapscaled|ST221919|25|ST221919}}
| owned               = [[Network Rail]]
| manager             = [[Transport for Wales Rail|Transport for Wales]]
| original = [[Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company]] 
| pregroup = [[Great Western Railway]] 
| postgroup = [[Great Western Railway]]
| platforms           = 2
| code                = CKY
| classification      = [[United Kingdom railway station categories|DfT category]] F2
| years               = December 1850
| events              = Line opened
| years1 = June 1851
| events1 = Crossing used as station
| years2 = About August 1851
| events2 = Station opened as Cross Keys
| years3              = 30 April 1962
| events3             = Station closed to passengers
| years4              = 7 June 2008
| events4             = Station reopened to passengers as Crosskeys
| mpassengers =
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2019/20 |passengers={{decrease}} 99,846}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2020/21 |passengers={{decrease}} 12,474}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2021/22 |passengers={{increase}} 53,018}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2022/23 |passengers={{increase}} 72,072}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2023/24 |passengers={{decrease}} 63,340}}
| footnotes           = Passenger statistics from the [[Office of Rail and Road]]
}}
'''Crosskeys railway station''' is a station serving the village of [[Crosskeys]] in the [[Caerphilly County Borough]] in Wales. It is on the [[Ebbw Valley Railway]].

The station is situated  behind houses on Risca Road and Carlton Terrace. The access to the station is via a one-way system off High Street exiting via Carlton Terrace.

Crosskeys is a two-platform station and there is no car park.  The station provides good access to the village and [[Crosskeys College]].

The station marks the end of the double-track [[passing loop]] between {{rws|Risca}} and Crosskeys; upon leaving Crosskeys trains enter the single track which extends to the railhead in {{rws|Ebbw Vale Town}}.

==History==
The line through the station site opened on 23 December 1850, at this time there was no station, it was not mentioned in the newspaper report of the line opening nor in the first published timetable.<ref name="opening">{{cite news |title=Opening of the Western Valleys Railway, Monday, December 23, 1850 |work=Monmouthshire Merlin |date=28 December 1850 |page=1 |url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3394997/3394998/16/}}</ref><ref name="timetable">{{cite news |title=Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company - Western Valleys Line |work=Monmouthshire Merlin |date=4 January 1851 |page=1 |url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3395000/3395001}}</ref> By June 1851 trains were ordered to stop at the level crossing here as soon as booking arrangements were complete.{{sfn|Quick|2023|p=150}} This was not uncommon practice in the early days of railways when trains could be boarded at designated stopping-places, passengers clambering aboard from the lineside having purchased tickets from a nearby inn.{{sfn|Biddle|1997|p=473}} There was a station on the site by August 1851 as from then it appeared in the timetable, at this time there were two trains each day in each direction, terminating at {{rws|Newport Courtybella}} and {{rws|Blaina}}.{{efn|According to Quick (2023) citing material in the minutes of [[Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company]] the station was not ordered until January 1863 and opened sometime after then.{{sfn|Quick|2023|p=150}} }}<ref>{{cite news |title=Western Valleys Railway |work=Monmouthshire Merlin |date=22 August 1851 |page=1 |url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3395138/3395139/1/}}</ref>

The station re-opened on 7 June 2008, four months after services recommenced on the line.{{sfn|Quick|2023|p=150}}

The station name formerly used by the railways was spelt as two words, the [[Ordnance Survey]] using the spelling as one word [[Crosskeys]] and the re-opened station has taken this spelling as well.<ref>{{cite map |title=Monmouthshire Sheet XXVII |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/102346076 |year=1885 |scale=Six-inch |publisher=Ordnance Survey }}</ref>{{sfn|Bradshaw|2011|loc=table 59}} 
==Services==
On Mondays to Saturdays, there are two trains an hour between {{rws|Cardiff Central}} or {{rws|Newport}} and {{rws|Ebbw Vale Town}} in each direction. On Sundays, the Cardiff to Ebbw Vale service runs via Newport every two hours.

{{rail start}}
{{rail line |next={{rws|Newbridge|Wales}} |route=[[Transport for Wales Rail|Transport for Wales]]<br /><small>[[Ebbw Valley Railway|Cardiff / Newport - Ebbw Vale Town]]</small>
|previous={{rws|Risca and Pontymister}} |col={{KAW colour}} |lightcol={{CV colour|Ebbw Vale}} }}
{{Historical Rail Insert}}
{{Rail line|next={{rws|Cwmcarn}}<br /><small>Line open, station closed</small> |previous={{rws|Risca}}<br /><small>Line open, station closed</small> |route=[[Great Western Railway]]<br /><small>[[Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company]]</small> |col={{GWR colour}} }}
{{s-end}}
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==Notes==
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |chapter=stations, passenger |last=Biddle |first=Gordon |pages=473–475 |editor1-last=Simmons |editor1-first=Jack |editor2-last=Biddle |editor2-first=Gordon |date=1997 |edition=1st |title=The Oxford Companion to British Railway History From 1603 to the 1990s |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-211697-5}}
*{{Bradshaw-1895December}}
*{{Quick-stations-5.05}}
== External links ==
{{Commons category|Crosskeys railway station}}
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*{{cite web |url=http://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/News/Older%20Press%20Releases/2004/April2004/rogerstone_station.htm |title=Planning Approval Granted for New Railway Station |access-date=14 August 2017 |archive-date=26 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926213200/http://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/News/Older%20Press%20Releases/2004/April2004/rogerstone_station.htm |url-status=dead }}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/ebbwvalleyrailway/ |title=Archive of Ebbw Valley Railway Scheme website |publisher=[[Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council|Blaenau Gwent council]] |year=2008 |access-date=7 September 2016 |archive-date=25 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100225090723/http://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/ebbwvalleyrailway/ |url-status=dead }}
*{{cite web| url=http://wales.gov.uk/docs/det/consultation/090715nationaltransportplanen.pdf| archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090806165234/http%3A//wales.gov.uk/docs/det/consultation/090715nationaltransportplanen.pdf| url-status=dead| archive-date=2009-08-06|page=26| format=PDF| title=National Transport Plan| accessdate=30 May 2010| date=July 2009| publisher=[[Welsh Assembly Government]]}}

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[[Category:Railway stations in Caerphilly County Borough]]
[[Category:DfT Category F2 stations]]
[[Category:Railway stations opened by Network Rail]]
[[Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2008]]
[[Category:Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail]]