Walks from Ebbw Vale Parkway station
5 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Ebbw Vale Parkway — the closest is Y Domen Fawr at 0.9 km, the highest Coety Mountain at 577 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
- Station code
- EBV
- Grid reference
- SO175071
- Coordinates
- 51.75714, -3.19610
- Locality
- Ebbw Vale
- Operator
- TfW Rail
- Entries & exits
- 40,736 · #2,118 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 5
Passenger figure is the ORR estimate of all entries and exits, April 2024 to March 2025 — a measure of how busy (or wonderfully quiet) the station is, not of train frequency.
About Ebbw Vale Parkway station
Ebbw Vale Parkway (Welsh: Parcffordd Glyn Ebwy) is a station on the Ebbw Valley Railway. It opened on 6 February 2008, when passenger services to and from Cardiff Central began on what had been a freight-only line for the previous 46 years; a northwards extension to a new terminus at Ebbw Vale Town followed on 17 May 2015.
The station was built on the site of the former Victoria station, in the Victoria area of the Ebbw Vale conurbation, and consists of a single platform beside Glan Ebbw Terrace, close to the A4046 Station Road. Services are operated by Transport for Wales.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0). Coordinates and the passenger figure come from NaPTAN and the ORR, not from Wikipedia.
The 5 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Ebbw Vale Parkway is one of the 3 nearest stations. Follow a name for the full record — heights, prominence, access rights, live summit weather and daylight.
| # | Hill | Height | Classifications | From station | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Y Domen Fawr | 504 m | DeweyHuMP | 0.9 km | W |
| 2 | Mynydd Carn-y-cefn | 550 m | DeweyMarilynHuMP | 1.8 km | NE |
| 3 | Cefn Coch | 571 m | Dewey | 5 km | NE |
| 4 | Coety Mountain | 576.5 m | DeweyCurrent County/UA TopMarilyn+1 | 5.7 km | E |
| 5 | Gwastad | 551 m | Dewey | 6.2 km | E |
A hill 8 km away in a straight line can be a much longer day on the ground — and on rural lines the last train home leaves early and some stations are request stops with a handful of services a day. Check live times and facilities for Ebbw Vale Parkway before you commit, plan the route on a proper map, and give the daylight planner your real finish time.
Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Station position from NaPTAN (Department for Transport, OGL v3.0); passenger estimates from the Office of Rail and Road (OGL v3.0). Distances and bearings computed by OpenFell, summit to platform.
Daylight here today
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Computed astronomically for the station. Walking to a timetable means walking to the light: set your turnaround with the daylight safety planner.
Plan the day
- Walking-time calculator — Naismith with terrain and fitness corrections.
- Access checker — what the land around here allows.
- Kit-list generator — packed for the forecast, not for habit.
- Ebbw Vale Parkway on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps